Arowana tragedy - unbelievable leap

[CAaddict]

as it stands . he may have learned his leasson now.. dnt burn him on what his didnt do bcus he has learnt his stuff now. lets just prevent it happning to the next 1.

but i do feel for you bcus i lost my 14" O from jumping.. hurts real bad..

 

[manpon44]

sorry man that sucks same thing happend to my catfish

 

[Arapaimaman]

Sorry for your lose.I was fishing in Peru and on this like I was by the camp fire looking at the lake and saw a arowana jump.The height and distant was mind boggling.You now seen the power of this fish.

 

[Morledzep]

so sorry for your loss, i've come close to losing my aros a couple times from jumping, but not because their tank is too small (though it's getting there now, i really need to get moved so i can set up the 800 gallon tank). mostly mine jump because of getting spooked by me wearing the wrong clothing or something going bump in the night.

one time in the middle of the night i smelled that icky fish smell and just knew that one of my aros was in trouble and found Spot on the floor with a bad akita pup looking to try to get to him to eat him (almost lost him that time).

finish setting up your 300 gallon and start your new aro in there. you won't regret it. and seriously NEVER walk away from the tank without the lids secured and weighted down. Arowana are POWERFUL, i keep a case of water bottles on each corner of the top of my tank and a 4' light fixture and several coils of various sizes of pond tubing on top of my tank and the aros can still make that lid move when they get spooked. i'm currently working on making a new lid that is heavier and stronger but i've been sidelined by an injury at work and can't do the work myself right now (i can just barely handle the tubing for the water changes right now, and even that is more than the doctor says i should be doing but i really don't have a choice). So you see, i understand about life getting in the way..

 

[iPat]

wow sorry for the lose but thats a tiny tank for an aro, trying getting a bigger one probably will avoid this from happening again

 

[lmt6600]

sorry to hear your loss too. I feel more sorry for you because your sharing your story and people are burning you like crazy. People should understand, maybe you didn't have money etc for getting bigger tank, but you have now. Anyways move on to the next one, I hope at least will never happen again... How about trying a Jardini or Lei this time?

 

[itsfritzymalone]

that was a major leap... sorry for your loss man.

 

[valderi123]

sorry man

 

[jlnguyen74]

This accident probably wouldn't have occured had it been moved to a bigger tank already.

There's no guarantee that this accident wouldn't have occured if the arowana was in bigger tank. Arrowana jumps, whether tank is big or small, whether lid is well secured or not!. One of my friend has an arowana jumped so hard that shatter the lid, and died from head injury. The fish was still in the tank. I had the same incident wih a 12in arowana in a 180gal tank with a few clown loach. It was doing fine in a 60gal tank, until I moved it to the 180gal tank, and it got skittish since, died a couple week after it was moved to a bigger tank, smashed its head so hard. Some arowana gets more skittish when it's in big tank. Bottom line, thing happens! No need for lecture, since the OP was getting a bigger tank for his fish, which meant he know and has concern on his fish.

 

[Gshock]

There's no guarantee that this accident wouldn't have occured if the arowana was in bigger tank. Arrowana jumps, whether tank is big or small, whether lid is well secured or not!. One of my friend has an arowana jumped so hard that shatter the lid, and died from head injury. The fish was still in the tank. I had the same incident wih a 12in arowana in a 180gal tank with a few clown loach. It was doing fine in a 60gal tank, until I moved it to the 180gal tank, and it got skittish since, died a couple week after it was moved to a bigger tank, smashed its head so hard. Some arowana gets more skittish when it's in big tank. Bottom line, thing happens! No need for lecture, since the OP was getting a bigger tank for his fish, which meant he know and has concern on his fish.

Hence why I said probably could've been avoided rather than completely avoided. In majority of cases, when you provide ample space, they have less chances of jumping. Im pretty sure you would also agree though, a 12" wide 55 gallon is not suitable for what the OP claims to be a 23" aro. The bigger tank should've been ready a long while ago.