Any one figgered out the cause or cure for Drop Eye yet?

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amehel0;1681563; said:
um it actually isnt and u are staring to annoy just thought id let u know. its a method used and has been reports of sucess.
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Just funning with ya, the aros soon become uninterested with the ping pong balls, as they do with any other inanimate object that is place in the tank. If there are reports of sucsess then why do 99% of the silver aros posted on any forums have DE?

Link's to these successful reprots would be gladly appreciated by all.
 
amehel0;1680378; said:
i have read that drop eye is caused in the home aquaria because they strat to eat sinkin pellts which they need to look down to and that a good way to cure it is to use ping pong ballz and they focus on the ball which then brings in the theory of another members post that they dont focuse on anything and the muscular tissue around the eye deterioates so that when they need to look u they cant due to insufficient strenght.

but seriously guys try pig pong ballz floating around if your aro can eat em use sumthin bigger and use a few of em. i read they had great sucess after a few months
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talk about a good myth for mythbusters:screwy: if something this simple actually worked it would be documented and everyone would be doing it. how do you explain how everybody else's silvers get drop eye if they dont feed sinking pellets, hell ive never even heard of aro owners feeding a sinking food on purpose to a fish that is a top water feeder.
 
I'm going to agree with Dmopar74 and say that its gotta be the unnatural feeding habits combined with collisions that wouldn't occur in nature. If these fish constantly had to look upward for food and had nothing to run into, I doubt it would happen anywhere nearly as often as it does. also, whether or not its a sinking pellet, even if its a floating pellet, its definitely not something they need to really look upwards to see. someone needs to set up a tank with a nice aviary above it so their aro can jump out and do some natural hunting. Expensive meals and high maintenance, but I would say that these types of setups would definitely have a lower occurrence of dropeye (excluding those events in which the arowana jumps from too close to the edge of the tank and ends up smashing into the side).
 
DanProwse;1681558; said:
I know one person who has always managed to raise his silvers without dropeye.
He's been keeping fish for 40 years or so, and is an "old skool" fish keeper, using no medication except salt and no additives such as de-chlor or water conditioner etc.
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Well not that it adds much value to the topic at hand-


But I have raised two aro's-
one to the 32+ inch mark in less than 2.5 years raised in a 125 (standard)-Meds used on several occasions....No drop eye...But had to uthanize due to lack of info at the time---I had no tank to upgrade to-----I hate being missed informed-But this fish as one can imagine being over the 30 inch mark in a 125---Managed to get benged up on several occasions...Pick up off the follr twice.....And still managed not to get it (D/E)

Now i have another silver-
22 inch being raised in my 500 gallon....Once again No drop eye-
Chemicals have been used once in this tank-----

Just some info about my tanks....
 
fishoverlivingspace;1681996; said:
I'm going to agree with Dmopar74 and say that its gotta be the unnatural feeding habits combined with collisions that wouldn't occur in nature. If these fish constantly had to look upward for food and had nothing to run into, I doubt it would happen anywhere nearly as often as it does. also, whether or not its a sinking pellet, even if its a floating pellet, its definitely not something they need to really look upwards to see. someone needs to set up a tank with a nice aviary above it so their aro can jump out and do some natural hunting. Expensive meals and high maintenance, but I would say that these types of setups would definitely have a lower occurrence of dropeye (excluding those events in which the arowana jumps from too close to the edge of the tank and ends up smashing into the side).
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But honestly-
Does one think that the aro never has collisions in the wild-
Being that it is a jumper and like to grab things out of tree branches and what nots-
I would have to think that even in the wild they are acceptible to collisions....Still yet.....
 
dmopar74;1681981; said:
talk about a good myth for mythbusters:screwy: if something this simple actually worked it would be documented and everyone would be doing it. how do you explain how everybody else's silvers get drop eye if they dont feed sinking pellets, hell ive never even heard of aro owners feeding a sinking food on purpose to a fish that is a top water feeder.
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Might be true on a whole-


But several times a week at feeding time-My aro can be found grabbing raw shrimp from the bottom of my tank.....
 
akskirmish;1682011; said:
But honestly-
Does one think that the aro never has collisions in the wild-
Being that it is a jumper and like to grab things out of tree branches and what nots-
I would have to think that even in the wild they are acceptible to collisions....Still yet.....
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akskirmish;1682015; said:
Might be true on a whole-


But several times a week at feeding time-My aro can be found grabbing raw shrimp from the bottom of my tank.....
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im shure aro's collide with things all the time in the wild, and i find my aro also getting food of the bottom on occasion but everyone always says ping pong balls work, but these are the people who have only "heard" about it working.

after searching for large silver pictures in the wild all i can find is silvers around 24" max on a regular basis. i still think that aro's are not surviving long enough in the wild to get to the size where de usually occures, and the few large ones there are have been the ones that luckily didnt get de.
 
ill find a link just gimme a while
 
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