"CURE" For DROOP EYE

[Bderick67]

i would have to disagree with that, you make it seem like they are A nocternal fish. but they must rely on sight to hunt, and cannot navigate in darkness like say a knifefish.

what would make more sense is that an arowana might move to mid-level to avoid being swiped out of the water by nocturnal predators at the surface.

and most diurnal fish eat at first sign dawn, i suspect your tiger barbs were swiped before you woke up.

No this was when my silver was in the 75 gallon tank which is kept in our walkin closet. That tank has no LED lights on it. With the tank lights off the only source of light in the tank would be from the heaters indacator light. The barbs were taken in total darkness.

 

[demjor19]

i would have to disagree with that, you make it seem like they are A nocternal fish. but they must rely on sight to hunt, and cannot navigate in darkness like say a knifefish.

what would make more sense is that an arowana might move to mid-level to avoid being swiped out of the water by nocturnal predators at the surface.

and most diurnal fish eat at first sign dawn, i suspect your tiger barbs were swiped before you woke up.

thats a very good point. any fisherman knows that most diurnal feeding fish eat at early morning or sundown. i never really suspected DE being a part of looking down though either.

 

[Chaos32]

My question is if the theory of head bashing is what causes DE, then why is it that leaving the aro in a pond fixes it? If the DE is the result of physical injury, then no matter where you put it shouldn't matter. I have some big aros jump resulting in gashes on the head & yet not develop DE. I have had aros that never had head accidents but did develop slight DE.

Aros in the wild do surface at night since the aborigines collect them at night only by shining a torch light at them which seems to stun them temporary.

 

[DeLgAdO]

My question is if the theory of head bashing is what causes DE, then why is it that leaving the aro in a pond fixes it? If the DE is the result of physical injury, then no matter where you put it shouldn't matter. I have some big aros jump resulting in gashes on the head & yet not develop DE. I have had aros that never had head accidents but did develop slight DE.

Aros in the wild do surface at night since the aborigines collect them at night only by shining a torch light at them which seems to stun them temporary.

how the hell does that work?

aborigines? as in native australians? i thought we are talking SA arowanas

 

[Chaos32]

how the hell does that work?

aborigines? as in native australians? i thought we are talking SA arowanas

We use the term aborigines in Malaysia to losely classify many of the indigenous tribes like the Dayak, Ibans etc. Some of these tribes have been collecting wild aro specimens for a long time. They know the river systems well. "Collection" is done at night by taking a boat made of tree trunk, rowing to certain parts of the lake or river & upon spotting an aro or fries, using a strong light to temporary "stun" the aro. It's the same principal as those used in capturing crocs at night ( eye shine ). The aro stays routed long enough in one spot for them to scoop them right out of the water especially the fries. These method of capturing aros is primarily used in capturing Asian aros in the wild.

Sorry if the thread was sidelined a bit.

 

[ethnics]

demjor, my bigger aro has drop eye in both eyes, does that make it genetic? my small one has it only in 1 eye.

my big one swims funny now cuz he has crooked eyes. unless he swims all sideways for fun?