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Okay, I'll start with the tank parameters.
It's a 240 gallon tank (96x24x24) with a 55 gallon sump tank.
Temp-78
PH-7.6 and STABLE
Ammonia-0
Nitrites-0
Nitrates- were around 20ppm before I did a 40% water change yesterday
Heavily planted with DHG, Cabomba, and Java Ferns. I use Excel with high medium/high light (8x54w T5HO) and Prime.
Got my silver arowana this morning. It took 2 days. I opened the box and the aro looked dead, just laying at the bottom of the bag not breathing. I took my pictures and reported the DOA. When I opened the bag I started to pick him up and he moved slightly. I immediately got an airstone into the bag and he started getting a little more active. After acclimating him to the water over the course of an hour I put him in the tank. He started swimming around and seemed fine. Then he sank to the bottom and repeated what I saw in the bag. Now he's going back and forth between being comatose and floating around the tank/bumping into things/not moving or swimming around like he's fine. Won't eat anything either. I transferred him to a small terrarium with flow holes cut throughout it and placed that inside the main aquarium (my juvenile JD was looking at him funny). He's getting plenty of O2 and a slow/medium water flow rate through his area. Any ideas on what the problem is? Is this common with juvenile arowanas?
It's a 240 gallon tank (96x24x24) with a 55 gallon sump tank.
Temp-78
PH-7.6 and STABLE
Ammonia-0
Nitrites-0
Nitrates- were around 20ppm before I did a 40% water change yesterday
Heavily planted with DHG, Cabomba, and Java Ferns. I use Excel with high medium/high light (8x54w T5HO) and Prime.
Got my silver arowana this morning. It took 2 days. I opened the box and the aro looked dead, just laying at the bottom of the bag not breathing. I took my pictures and reported the DOA. When I opened the bag I started to pick him up and he moved slightly. I immediately got an airstone into the bag and he started getting a little more active. After acclimating him to the water over the course of an hour I put him in the tank. He started swimming around and seemed fine. Then he sank to the bottom and repeated what I saw in the bag. Now he's going back and forth between being comatose and floating around the tank/bumping into things/not moving or swimming around like he's fine. Won't eat anything either. I transferred him to a small terrarium with flow holes cut throughout it and placed that inside the main aquarium (my juvenile JD was looking at him funny). He's getting plenty of O2 and a slow/medium water flow rate through his area. Any ideas on what the problem is? Is this common with juvenile arowanas?