What happened to the 250g tank? that is the only tank of the three you have listed that the aro should be in. Pristine water will do much more in aiding to your arowana's healing then any product you can buy from tetra. Take responsibility for this fish get it into pristine water(may need to be daily W/Cs) and get a proper sized tank for this and the rest of your fish.
Thanks for your feed back Bderick67
I never said I have a 250G... I cannot have it, due to space limitation... 170G is the max I can go for but not now maybe in a couple of months...
Water is crystal clear... I'm over-filtering the tank even... in the pictures it might seem not very clear due to ruminant of medication which dye the water with yellowish color...
I realize now that after reading over this again it might sound like I'm trying to be a jerk about this situation, but I'm more trying to get the point across that the current housing you're giving these fishes is very inadequate and moving them to a much larger aquarium should be your top priority at this point. Keeping them under the current conditions is much worse than the stress that they will encounter when moved to an adequate-sized aquarium/pond; a larger housing arrangement for them should solve your problems because water quality and space appear to be the main issue.
If money is an issue, but you still wish to keep them, then consider looking into making or buying a small pond for them; you can easily put together a more than adequate pond for far less money than an aquarium of the same size. Sure, it's not as visually pleasing, but it's much better for the fishes then this current housing arrangement.
You sounded a bit more sarcastic than constructive in your first reply, but the 2nd one was good... Thanks for your kind concern...
Pond is not feasible also do to extreme hot weather where I live, it reaches 48-50 Celsius in summer easily + the temperature fluctuate like crazy, between day & night Temp can drop 8-12 degrees Celsius, Last issue the evaporation rate is very high also...
I'll go for the 170G aquarium in a couple of months... I'll go with Cylinder Shaped due to space limitation... is that also small?? that is almost 3 times bigger than the current one...
looking at the barbels, they look to be rubbing wounds or gar nipping wounds more then anything else. cure for them is a bigger home. no way around it. the homemade pond is the cheap way to go. for less then $300 you could build a pond for them and then get some pumps and filtration for another $200 or so. so for a total of $500-600 you could have the best set up for these fish that they could have. look into it.
you have several knowledgeable people giving you sound advise. take it to heart if you truly want to have quality healthy fish to enjoy.
They almost 90% healed, like you said its either rubbing or most likely from the crazy jump, I doubt it had anything to do with the Gar, Gar wont be so gentle nor accurate when inflicting a bite to those tiny barbels...I could tell because I saw what his bite can do after inflected a wound on the Clown Knife tail in the 1st day...
For the pond I really appreciate your suggestion but as I said above in my reply to "Wiggles92" its not feasible due to environmental reasons of where I live.
My only option would be the 170G Aquarium... do you think it would be enough...
looks bad he probly hurt myself when jumping
Most probably it was from the jump...now its healing rapidly... thanks goodness... & he started eating pellets back like crazy...
I must be missing something here...
