Dear fellow MFK members.
How you all? Myself Arjun, settled in Dubai, but based in India.
I am an aquarist and I love to see fishes and aquarium all around my home.
Now this is how it all started.
I got a 80x40x50 cms tank as my birthday gift and then i bought a baby silver Aro in march and some Gold Fishes and a suckerfish. Everything went well till Aro grew upto 42cms within the first four months.Ive been feeding pellets, fresh & dried shrimps, peas, cockroaches but most preferably shrimps. Tad disappointingly I found that Aro got slow and found hard to turn properly and it even stopped eating.I almost understood that I had to replace the tank and bought a bigger one, which measured 120x40x53cms. I replaced the Golds for Oscars (both Albinos & Tigers)in the new one.
Except Aro eating, everything else went well with the new tank for the first week. But then , one day morning I saw the Aro floating around and was unable to swim. After some research I found that the problem is swim bladder disease. I put the Aro to the smaller tank, and with water just 2" above the fish and some aerators and heaters, I started watching it. Also placed decor piece on her side so that she won't fall or float around. This went on for 4 days but everything in vain and I lost her :-(...So now its just the Oscars and sucker fish.
I somehow feel that I could have saved her, if I knew somethings better.
This is why I'm here and now I want to study properly everything about them.
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]I'm planning to get new Aros (mostly yellow or red tailed) soon and the later on flower horns, rays, etc[/FONT]
Good to be here and hope to learn loads of stuff from here.
Regards,
Arjun
How you all? Myself Arjun, settled in Dubai, but based in India.
I am an aquarist and I love to see fishes and aquarium all around my home.
Now this is how it all started.
I got a 80x40x50 cms tank as my birthday gift and then i bought a baby silver Aro in march and some Gold Fishes and a suckerfish. Everything went well till Aro grew upto 42cms within the first four months.Ive been feeding pellets, fresh & dried shrimps, peas, cockroaches but most preferably shrimps. Tad disappointingly I found that Aro got slow and found hard to turn properly and it even stopped eating.I almost understood that I had to replace the tank and bought a bigger one, which measured 120x40x53cms. I replaced the Golds for Oscars (both Albinos & Tigers)in the new one.
Except Aro eating, everything else went well with the new tank for the first week. But then , one day morning I saw the Aro floating around and was unable to swim. After some research I found that the problem is swim bladder disease. I put the Aro to the smaller tank, and with water just 2" above the fish and some aerators and heaters, I started watching it. Also placed decor piece on her side so that she won't fall or float around. This went on for 4 days but everything in vain and I lost her :-(...So now its just the Oscars and sucker fish.
I somehow feel that I could have saved her, if I knew somethings better.
This is why I'm here and now I want to study properly everything about them.
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]I'm planning to get new Aros (mostly yellow or red tailed) soon and the later on flower horns, rays, etc[/FONT]
Good to be here and hope to learn loads of stuff from here.
Regards,
Arjun
