Arowana suicide..a myth or just coincidence?

[sharizan]

The fish will jump from aquarium or bang its head to death, happen if someone offer good price but owner dont let go ...My uncle had this silver arowana few year ago and his cousin offered good price on the fish but wont sell, later in evening the fish bang its head to death ( also jumping but tank are tightly covered)..this also happen to me, and i also have heared few cases...one way to avoid this is by giving 1 piece of your aro scale to the person if u dont want to sell (thats wat i heard)...question is, what do u all think..has any had this experience?personally for me its hard to believe..

 

[Mount_Prion]

The fish doesn't care how much you get for it.

They frequently jump. Especially when startled.

 

[David R]

Stevie said it best.
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[beakspidy]

So if there are 10000 people offering me for the aro? I dont think aro has enough scales to give away lol.

 

[Empyreal]

Well of course for this to be true the Arowana would have to be able to understand that someone is offering money for it. To be able to understand someone wants to pay for it, it would have to understand language. For it to understand language it would have to be able to speak. And if I could speak it would tell you that this whole theory is ridiculous.

And even if it could do all the above, it wouldn't kill itself because it gets nothing from the transaction!!!! Case dismissed lol

 

[Ryan144]

Well of course for this to be true the Arowana would have to be able to understand that someone is offering money for it. To be able to understand someone wants to pay for it, it would have to understand language. For it to understand language it would have to be able to speak. And if I could speak it would tell you that this whole theory is ridiculous.

And even if it could do all the above, it wouldn't kill itself because it gets nothing from the transaction!!!! Case dismissed lol

Haha plus one on that

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[Greg31]

My 10" jardini broke its back in middle of night a year ago. Found him alive but unable to swim and back bent awkwardly.

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[E.C.]

Suicide is just a myth, they jump because they can and will jump for food because that's what they do to feed. Most are just skittish...

 

[azura]

its their instinct to jump not myth ... just like polypterus families

 

[H]-[H]

And arowana's death is said to protect the owner from bad omen..
It all boils down to how superstitious the person is..