Arapaima Faded Fin Tip & Rot

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Well, seems that today I got quite some heat in. Water now at 23.9'C, so I'll get at least 5 more hours of heat. So today hopefully 24~24.5'C...
With a bit of luck, finally getting it towards 25'C again and up.
Will still have a couple of cool nights, but with luck, from Sunday onwards, it's going to be 21'C minimum and that's where daytime I get real progress.
Saturday looks ok to again to fix the settling tank and then start bringing the salt up to 5ppt
 
My flowerhorn baby have the same symtom what I did is that I seperated him keep water temperature around 86-88 F with Filter and Heater, Air stone is up to you. Add some aquarium salt change the water partial daily. Treat it for 7 days he/she should be better fins will start growing back and colors will pop back up. My flowerhorn is all heal up. Good luck if you have any question message me
 
Received the two meters.
First quick test...very easy to use and fast.
Will give a separate review on both later in another thread.

Readings:
Ph: 8.5
Salinity: 0.33 ppt far too low, so with tank repair tomorrow, we'll hope to get that up to the recommended 5ppt
Temp: 23'Celcius

Have switched off the settling tank for repair, see how fast it drains.
Keep heating up the small pond, at the end of the day switch on the settling-tank and pump again and with the water heating up in the next couple of hours, it will give a nice temperature boost for the pond itself.
Tomorrow will be fixing the tank and take the heater off the roof and put it on the concrete floor. Not getting enough flow out of it.

Arapaima still ok, he's not comfortable with the temperature for sure, but making his rounds and eating well.

Cheers,
Luc
 
EricNguyen said:
My flowerhorn baby have the same symtom what I did is that I seperated him keep water temperature around 86-88 F with Filter and Heater, Air stone is up to you. Add some aquarium salt change the water partial daily. Treat it for 7 days he/she should be better fins will start growing back and colors will pop back up. My flowerhorn is all heal up. Good luck if you have any question message me
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Hello Eric,

Thanks for your input...
- Water I'm doing my best to get up in temperature, but not easy with a 55000 liter pond.. Daytime getting into 88F again, so I'm hoping the worst is soon over. Nighttime still in the high 60's so that is a concern, but it's climbing.
- Separating the Arapaima is a no-no... he's 150cm (about 5ft), so I have to treat him in the pond.
- Salt, yep, finally have a meter and will bring it up to 4-5ppt from 0.33ppt now.
- Airstones..many, they also help with bringing the temperature up as I have the intake air heated.

Hope to get good news to post next week.

Cheers,
Luc
 
Started cleaning and preparing for repair.
Shut everything down for a couple of hours to isolate and check each part of the system.
Need to make sure I eliminate every possible leak.
So far it looks like the pond itself is all ok...thank heaven for that.
Was not 100% sure on that anymore...

temperature at 22.8 this morning.
outside temperature much better than the last couple of days..it's getting warmer...finally.
 
Tank repaired, no change, water still dropping fast.
Checked and took out the overflow from the koi/grow out.
3 tennis ball sized holes...rats. Grrr
Tomorrow repair that and put some poison behind the liner in the back.. (where it can't get to the pond).
Weather is finally helping again, it's going to last above 20'C all night.
Salt finished, highest I got was 1.14ppt.
So another 40kg bag tomorrow and keep adding slowly.
Ph slowly came down to 7.8...better.
Mr. T feeling better with higher temperature, eating well, tail still same,
 
Good job Luc. Sees that you were able to stop the rot.
Ans as long as the tail is not getting worse, he´ll be back to normal in time, you´ll see.
 
Joao, thanks for comment.. Not done yet, but starts to look better. Today repaired the leaks, got all flowing again and topping up as we speak, hopefully for the last time.
Temperatures are back to normal, so that's another worry less.
Tomorrow another bag of salt and start dosing towards 5ppt.




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Here's a shot of the holes.

They are all mostly above the waterline so with today's patches on I hope it holds.
Put patches on the backside first, then pulled the liner back and sandwiched it with similar patches at the front.

Grow out full again, Crystal eyed Cat annoyed that the water dropped so much from filling the grow out...lol.
Now all happily flowing again, filter online and bringing up the volume to the max.
From there, this week monitoring and adding salt


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Came in this morning, pond full and it seems all holding now.
Need to keep an eye on pest-control but at least the water is crystal clear and most importantly, Arapaima's tail looks much better now.
Will get salt later today and add that. Testing later as well.
Temperatures are back up, stays above 20'C at night which is perfect.
Heaters off, cover taken off and the Koi I separated look all ok now.
The carp that are with the Koi will go to workers for dinner..the Koi will go into the main pond sometime next week I think.
Tilapia fishing to be restarted soon.
The small pond will get two Fly River Turtles soon.
Also adding 4 spitters.. (Archer fish) there.
Then have to get the Feather Back out of the settling tank and put him in there as well. (keeps going under the drain, through the drain-pipe ending up in one of the settling tanks if you put him in the main pond).
I've always thought of getting a couple of arowana and I might just do that for the smaller pond this year now that all the other fish are out.

Cheers,
Luc
 
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