Arapaima Faded Fin Tip & Rot

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The effort you have put into this is simply amazing. It seems to me that "Mr T" is in very good hands. I wish you the best of luck with it. I wish I could contribute more about the fin rot question, but simply put I have no idea. After reading through this post, I just wanted to say well done.


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Thanks for the kind words, appreciate it. Said it many times on the thread of his pond build and the thread about finding him, I've grown very attached to him and he is absolutely adorable. He also keeps reminding me that things can be done if you want, even at very low cost.
Crystal clear water in his pond without expensive filters. Fish growing like crazy without all kind of expensive food, plants growing into jungle within weeks.. It's by far the most fun I ever had and Mr.T started all that..
Hope next week temperatures will get back to normal and I can get the water to 25-26'Celcius. That's where I hope to get improvements on his fins...

Cheers,
Luc
 
This morning water 22'C, forecast revised up a bit, 2 nights of 16'C and by Sunday we're back at 20'C.
His tail looks ok (well, faded colours will take a longer time) but there's only one spot that springs out.

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You can see the spot as a white stripe almost in the middle of the picture.

He's active for sure, hungry and behaving normal, so I'm not too worried.
One of the settling tanks is leaking heavily, helps me with gradual water changes every day and the water we top up is about 24'C, so that helps keeping the temperature up as well.
Saturday that will be fixed, and then next week remove the heating 'add-ons' when water temperature gets above 25'C again.
Cheers,
Luc

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Well, happy too early I guess...Weather keeps cold for 3 more nights.
Water this morning 22'C, Saturday work postponed to next week.
Arapaima is still ok, swimming around and waiting for his food. Tail same.
Tonight and tomorrow night will have 15'C, then a 16'C night before it crawls up to 18'C again with daytime in the 30s.
Top-up water is 27'C so that helps with keeping it up.

Finally got the Salinity meter ordered. Initially transferred the amount for the one I wanted, but out of stock.
They advised me to take the OEM-version, exactly the same and half the price. The more expensive one is the USA-branded version (ExStik).
Servicing of both is done by the same OEM.

So instead, I put in a PH-meter as well with money to spare.
Here's the links:
http://www.eastern-energy.net/produ...rature+รุ่น+8681.html

http://www.eastern-energy.net/produ...#3617;+รุ่น+8371.html

Will get them tomorrow or Friday and post here on the first impressions and results with it.

Cheers,
Luc
 
I'm following this thread and pulling for a full recovery.
 
Tom, thanks for your support.

Read through my posts yesterday, noticed a mistake.
When I said Thai people are very suspicious, I of course meant to say: Superstitious, meaning that such fish coming into one's life (factory in this case), it means a blessing. So taking care of it is taking care of one's blessings.

Cheers,
Luc
 
Aquanero said:
I'm following this thread and pulling for a full recovery.
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Tom, if we have to go to spot-treatment, what kind of medicine do I have to look for?
Will be hard to find here in Thailand, it's not as developed as the US.
Any common 'house-hold' names would sure help sourcing it.
Worst case I have to look into ordering abroad, but I'd rather avoid that due to customs/shipping regulations.

Cheers,
Luc
 
Too cold. Worried about it. Water not above 23 today. Next two night 16..
Pretty sure that his tail problem has to do with the temperature.
Wondering how long he can take this low temperature...
 
Still cold here. 18.5'Celcius outside. Water at 22.5'C
Can see him suffering, topping up again with warmer tap-water.
His tail is showing more faded, very sure now it's the temperature that causes it.
Daytime getting slowly up and above 30'C this weekend, but today still a cold day at 26'C max.
Might change the hot air tubes from the Koi-Pond going directly in the main pond later. See if that helps.
 
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