Hey folks. I have a sick Jardini arowana. He is about 24". he got infected from some feeder goldfish I bought, as I was going to be gone for a while and didn't have a fish sitter.
It was hard to diagnose him at first, tried Maracyn 1/2 and API fungal cure. The fungal cure worked a bit, but in the end, it appears he has hookworms. I am using API General Cure, which is an anti-parasite (metronidazole and praziquantel).
My LFS folks told me two different things. One said to use a towel and take him out of the water and manually remove the parasites as much as possible. I have done this a few times, and it is working pretty well. Such a strange thing to take a fish out and 'scrub' them down, sort of like a fish "taking a bath".
The second thing one of them said was to add salt to the water. He didn't know specifics for arowana's, but he said adding up to 1.010 was ok for freshwater fishes, but above that would be hard to tolerate unless they were a brackish species.
I am curious if any of you have added salt to arowana tank when during a sickness, and if so, how much do think is best to add. Any other advise would be great.
Thanks!!
It was hard to diagnose him at first, tried Maracyn 1/2 and API fungal cure. The fungal cure worked a bit, but in the end, it appears he has hookworms. I am using API General Cure, which is an anti-parasite (metronidazole and praziquantel).
My LFS folks told me two different things. One said to use a towel and take him out of the water and manually remove the parasites as much as possible. I have done this a few times, and it is working pretty well. Such a strange thing to take a fish out and 'scrub' them down, sort of like a fish "taking a bath".
The second thing one of them said was to add salt to the water. He didn't know specifics for arowana's, but he said adding up to 1.010 was ok for freshwater fishes, but above that would be hard to tolerate unless they were a brackish species.
I am curious if any of you have added salt to arowana tank when during a sickness, and if so, how much do think is best to add. Any other advise would be great.
Thanks!!
