Joke aside, I'm glad you and your family were ok through the ordeal!
Joke aside?
What joke?
Arowana tragedy - unbelievable leap
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Joke aside?
What joke?
Definition of a pond is a body of standing water that is either natural or man made lol. A pond does not only have to be man made. Had you some common sense, you would've known that. If you can't figure out that in your last post you just compared a natural body of water to a tank, then you really do need some professional help. All tanks aren't suitable because they have a lid? Really? Thats just unreasonable. Someomone who wants to spend money on a fish, time and effort to raise it for months, if not years, and wants it dead? Ever heard of dayak? Nobody wants to kill it, but theres a ton who choose not to do the proper research to prevent things like this which is practically the same thing. Even if there is no gaurantee on whether the fish would jump if it was in a bigger tank, it definitely couldn't have gotten out if there was a secure lid.
Sorry for your loss, and sorry for all the negative comments. We have all made mistakes, and learned a lesson or two. The OP really didn't ask in his opening post "hey, what do you think I could have done to prevent this?" From the sounds of it, he knew and just forgot to secure the lid. It happens....especially when leaving on vacation with the families. It also sounded like the family genuinely cared for this fish and did there very best to take care of it. I understand everyones passion but give the OP a break.
Gotta agree with John here, though my estimate would be 21" maybe 22". The angle across two tiles from corner to oppisite corner is near 27", this is the angle the aro is laying. The aro is laying across a tile and a half, 75% of 27" is over 20" plus take into account the tail not the edge of the tile and being bent.
Average growth IMO is 1 to 1.5" per month sometimes more sometimes less. So average for 15 months should be 15 to 22.5" and this could be obtained even in a 55g with frequent water changes and nutrition.
However on everything else within this and outside this thread I will disagree with him
Things happen, I know the OP has been trying to setup this 300g which was bought back in May. Structural floor issues have kept that from happening. Just to be clear, I am not flaming for this. My disappointment is that it seems there was no action taken after this aro has had three previous jumping incidents. We learn from our mistakes, yet this wisdom is wasted if no action is taken.
Wow! You two must be experience fish keepers that you need to look up the definition of a pond in order to realize what's a pond! For real? You need to "google" for definition of a pond, and you want to talk common sense? BTW, did any of you two look up the definition of a tank by any chance?
I know! It's heart breaking to see a fish died, and I'm sure the OP feel the same. From the picture, the tank look like a display in that room, so OP may think it's tacky to put brick or weight on top, or he may fear that it will damage the tank with all those weight on top of the lids... There could be any reason, but I'm almost certain that the OP didn't mean for that tragedy to happen. He did take very good care of that aro, or it wouldn't be such a nice specimen.Gotta agree with John here, though my estimate would be 21" maybe 22". The angle across two tiles from corner to oppisite corner is near 27", this is the angle the aro is laying. The aro is laying across a tile and a half, 75% of 27" is over 20" plus take into account the tail not the edge of the tile and being bent.
Average growth IMO is 1 to 1.5" per month sometimes more sometimes less. So average for 15 months should be 15 to 22.5" and this could be obtained even in a 55g with frequent water changes and nutrition.
However on everything else within this and outside this thread I will disagree with him
Things happen, I know the OP has been trying to setup this 300g which was bought back in May. Structural floor issues have kept that from happening. Just to be clear, I am not flaming for this. My disappointment is that it seems there was no action taken after this aro has had three previous jumping incidents. We learn from our mistakes, yet this wisdom is wasted if no action is taken.
