Arowana siddenly died

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Apologies if it's in the wrong thread, if so let me know where to post please. So I feed alot of my fish in separate tanks frozen shrimp from the grocery store. Everyone of them are fed pretty well. I feed every 2-3 days so I'm not over feeding. But the arowama that's housed with 2 Oscar's was fed last night he seemed fine, no signs of choking or anything of that nature. This afternoon he expels his stomach and sinks face down and dies. All the other fish are perfectly fine still swimming showing no signs of stress at all.
 

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Apologies if it's in the wrong thread, if so let me know where to post please. So I feed alot of my fish in separate tanks frozen shrimp from the grocery store. Everyone of them are fed pretty well. I feed every 2-3 days so I'm not over feeding. But the arowama that's housed with 2 Oscar's was fed last night he seemed fine, no signs of choking or anything of that nature. This afternoon he expels his stomach and sinks face down and dies. All the other fish are perfectly fine still swimming showing no signs of stress at all.
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Hard to say. I’d suggest not feeding shrimp as a main food source. Use more as a snack or treat. Try a pellet and/or a varied diet.
 

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How big is the aro and how long have you had it?

Apologies if it's in the wrong thread, if so let me know where to post please. So I feed alot of my fish in separate tanks frozen shrimp from the grocery store. Everyone of them are fed pretty well. I feed every 2-3 days so I'm not over feeding. But the arowama that's housed with 2 Oscar's was fed last night he seemed fine, no signs of choking or anything of that nature. This afternoon he expels his stomach and sinks face down and dies. All the other fish are perfectly fine still swimming showing no signs of stress at all.
 
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Apologies if it's in the wrong thread, if so let me know where to post please. So I feed alot of my fish in separate tanks frozen shrimp from the grocery store. Everyone of them are fed pretty well. I feed every 2-3 days so I'm not over feeding. But the arowama that's housed with 2 Oscar's was fed last night he seemed fine, no signs of choking or anything of that nature. This afternoon he expels his stomach and sinks face down and dies. All the other fish are perfectly fine still swimming showing no signs of stress at all.
Did you see it expel its stomach and die?
 
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Never heard of that before. Could have possibly choked??
While I've never heard of that before years back I had a big silver about 2ft who expelled his stomach had a wierd fit and try to jump at the same time, hit its head on the brace bar and died so....

Unfortunately we never did find out why or what was wrong...
 
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