HELLLLLP ME PLEASE I'M DESPERATE AND GOING TO CRY!!

[FirstTimeFisher]

So I don't have much time, or so I believe and I'm really freaking out. This has been going on for the whole day now. From since I woke up today I noticed my Dad's Silver Arowana threw up his meal from yesterday.

I did a 30% water change yesterday. 55gal tank. Yes I know it was a lot but I've been away and he collected A LOT of poop on the bottom.
Waters are fine. As far as I test and I'm honestly too freaked out to test again now. But I stay on top of it. This is the first time he ever reacted this way after a water change.

He's been breathing through the mouth all day. Gills open and close. He's trying to stay a float but he's always going back vertical (Head UP & Tail DOWN). I keep keep keep reading and I keep thinking it's SBD but I am so freaked out. My dad's birthday is tomorrow and this fish CANNOT die.

He shares the tank (Divided) with a Black Convict Cichlid who has not AT ALL been affected by the water change.

 

[FirstTimeFisher]

it won't lemme post the video so you can see the breathing but that's his current situation.

 

[skjl47]

30% water change yesterday. 55gal tank

shares the tank (Divided) with a Black Convict Cichlid

too freaked out to test again now

Hello; First thing you should try to settle down if you can. Panic and such will not help. Nor will worry about a birthday. Panic can sometime lead to doing a wrong thing just to be doing something and has made things worse.
More information will help. Do a test of the water again. By the way what do you test the water with? Strips or a liquid test kit?

Also will help to know the size of the fish. How long is the convict? how long is the arowana?

A 55 gallon is pretty small for these two fish unless they are both babies. If they are more than a few inches such a small tank can go bad pretty fast.
Just as a wild guess the only thing I can suggest is to do more water changes. If you have been doing 30% then stick with that amount a couple of times right away, one right now and another tomorrow. Then maybe go to over 50% each day for a time.
Also stop feeding both fish for several days.
Check the filters and such to see if anything seems wrong.

Need more information especially water parameters.

 

[FirstTimeFisher]

Okay the cichlid is about 3. The arowana is about 10 or 11. I use the liquid test kit Im waiting for results now.

 

[kno4te]

Test the water. Lower the water level and. Add some plants or something to prop the fish up and it’s a normal swimming position.

Add some salt at a 1tsp per gallon.

Maybe from hitting itself against the glass or lid. Hope it gets betters soon.

 

[skjl47]

Hello; how long has the tank been set up?
Do you know about the "cycle" of an aquarium, also sometimes talked about to as bio-load and beneficial bacteria (bb)?
Are either of the fish new?

duanes Drstrangelove

 

[FirstTimeFisher]

He didn't make it... Thanks for trying everyone. I'm signing off.

 

[johnny potatoes]

He didn't make it... Thanks for trying everyone. I'm signing off.

Wouldn't you like to know what happened?
It may help keep it from happening again.

 

[FirstTimeFisher]

Wouldn't you like to know what happened?
It may help keep it from happening again.

I would but there is no specific answer. Ammonia = 0; Ph =0 7
Again, waters were fine. Or at least survivable...

 

[tlindsey]

He didn't make it... Thanks for trying everyone. I'm signing off.

I would but there is no specific answer. Ammonia = 0; Ph =0 7
Again, waters were fine. Or at least survivable...

Sorry for the loss