My arowana is almost a year old now and no dropeye yet...I'm wondering if I'm in the clear or if it develops later on in their life. Anybody know??
At what age do silver arowanas usually start to develop dropeye??
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i think it depends.
my silver had no drop eye all the time i had him,which was up til 18 inches.
now with my friend at 24 inches,i think it still has no DE.
my silver had no drop eye all the time i had him,which was up til 18 inches.
now with my friend at 24 inches,i think it still has no DE.
I've seen two 2 footers without any drop eye. It is not very well known what the exact cause is for de. Look it up in the forum search.
djarmstrong;2339663; said:
No it definitely is not, that's why I want to know if its possible that mine will still get it even though he is almost a year old. I was hoping that since he didn't have it yet that he probably never will.
6 bar;2339904; said:
I have a suspicion that it has to do with whether or not the arowana can see through the lid of the tank or not. If you have a glass top on the tank then the arowana can look through searching for food constantly like in nature, and if the top is solid he has no reason to look for food there, so he looks down to search for food and slowly his eyes start to drop.....just a guess though really as I know there are so many possible reasons for dropeye.
channarox;2339981; said:
I can believe that, but I would be more convinced that my suspicion was wrong if someone had an example of the opposite. An arowana that DID get dropeye in a tank where it COULD see through the lid.
My aro was raised in a tank with glass tops(it could see through the lid). IME this has nothing to do with DE. I raised my aro to 18" without DE at this size she developed DE within hours after experiencing severe head trauma. Several months later, she developed DE in the opposite eye again this occured within hours of suffering another incident of severe head trauma.
It might hard to say, i got 2 large silver aros before, 1 had started to DE at the 1st year i kept him (this silver was 6+ years old), and the 2nd never got any DE until i sold them... (this second silver was 4+ years old)
In the same condition, same feeding way...but 1 got DE and the other 1 didn't got DE.
In the same condition, same feeding way...but 1 got DE and the other 1 didn't got DE.