Drop Eye Surgery Video

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Tropical Dude;3037894; said:
I have heard of wild aros being caught with drop eye. I believe it, too. Think about it, it their "natural" habitat so different? If there is a lack of bugs and other food from the surface, will they not look for food elsewhere? If the river floods so that it is deeper?

Also, is it also possible that it is an old age thing? Like wrinkles in people? Certain things can make it worse or help.

Are all these not very possible. Kinda like diabetes in people. Healthy people can get it, they don't have to be fat and overeat.

The bottom line is we don't know exactly what causes drop eye, just what it is. We can fix it and even prevent it to some degree. Remember, poor water quality (especially high nitrate), poor nutrition/diets, tank depth, tank design, tank mates, and many other factors have all been identified as possible causes. People sometimes have fed an aro a very lean diet and put it in a shallow, wide tank with no tank mates and excellent water quality and sometimes drop eye eventually develops.

Until a large scale long term study is done on arowanas and drop eye, we can only do our best to prevent it. And remember, it does not hurt the fish. It is simply a new eye position. It does not even make it look bad in my opinion.
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yea i agree :D DE doesnt bother me and many causes
 
in the wild their would be no point in the aro looking down as the water ways they are from is murky so they would not see anything from below
 
very good point T1K never thought of it
 
that is untrue
in the wild, specimens of silver arowana have drop eye too
not all of them, sometimes both eyes, sometimes just one
all im saying is that, if it okccurs in the wild, then it would occur in captivity, but in captivity it might be more frequent due to conditions.

i am not saying all of them do it, i am saying that in documentaries whree hey have filmed wild aros, they have drop eye too
 
henward;3038699; said:
i am not saying all of them do it, i am saying that in documentaries whree hey have filmed wild aros, they have drop eye too
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When i net my aro out it always looks downward as if it has drop eye are you sure it isn't just that?
 
I'm starting to wonder if DE is caused by head trauma more than diet. Maybe Silvers are more prone to jumping and head trauma than other Aros? After all...we don't keep an eye on our tanks 24/7 so who knows if your Aro jumps and smacks it's head on the lid?
 
Hmmmmmmmmm.......... I'm not such a fan of this video. All this emphasis on appearance (especially unnatural appearance) at the expense of the fish. The eye surgery does nothing to address the cause, and the tail fanning is just cruel.
 
no, these documentaries are when the arowana is in the water. kinda like when they put hidden cameras in the rivers and have fish swim past and narrate.

i also dont like it, the tail fanning is cruel
its completely over the top i reckon
 
even some selective breeding is cruel i reckon. some fish cant even functoin properly
i seen some flowerhorn in my visit to thailand, with melons in their head so big that they could barely swim straight.

.... i mean lets compare to a PUG dog, ugly as hell, but cute.... has some health problems, but at least it can jump and walk and run.

but if you say, lets breed humans that have disabilities because we find it cute..... rather weird i reckon lol
my opinion
 
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