Help! Arowana acting weird!

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Umm I feel as though this may be a troll. Who does that?

If it isn't, let it out of the bag. Let it out. Let it out.

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Thanks for the help guys. I moved him into the tank and he still can't swim, but after an hour or so he would "jump" around but still couldn't swim. He went through the night just fine. Here's a video of him swimming. I don't know what's going on. the answer would explain why he presented to oddly in the bag. He kept sliding across my rocks and tearing his scales, so i have him in a hatchery right now.[video=youtube;QgIDwodhkwc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgIDwodhkwc&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 
video won't play. says "private".
 
that's probably cos u left him in the bag so long, hes probably still recovering
 
I sold my first jar because i bought it at 7" and raised it to 14". I want to raise a full jar because I enjoyed watching it grow. I admit that this is my first time buying online and it was a noob move of me, but i also didn't expect it to come it that condition.
 
Just looks severely shocked. Probably started as a low oxygen situation , but the second you opened that bag he would have experience extreme PH swing and toxic ammonia levels. That's a triple whammy I'm impressed he's survived, best thing to do now is leave him alone, Keep the tank dark and warm let him rest hopefully he'll come around, watch for redness in the scales and gills as it may have had a bit of ammonia burn being in the bag so long. Some stress coat and a bit of salt might help bring him around as well but most important is clean warm water and stay away, hovering around or bothering him wont help, if he's not floating belly leave him alone every time you look at him it adds stress!

Everyone makes mistakes, lot's of people commented on that but few offered advise so for future reference if you get fish shipped the goal should be to have it out of the bag as quickly as possible.

Setting the bag in the tank for 20min to let the temps adjust is a good idea especially if there is a big difference between the tank and the bag water temperature but that's about all that's needed. A very common mistake is opening to bag to let in air, DO NOT open the bag at all until your ready to remove the fish from it and when you do open the bag get the fish out quick! The buildup of C02 in the bag lowers the PH in the water and this very low PH protects the fish from the built up ammonia. The second you open the bag the CO2 is released from the water the PH spikes very rapidly and suddenly the ammonia becomes very toxic. This is far more harmful then being left in a low oxygen environment.
 
I put my fish in a tank (well an appropriate sized cooler) that's 15 gallons to acclimate by adding small amounts of water from my main tank till the temp is the same, usually about 20 mins, you may want to consider something of the like in the future.

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Just looks severely shocked. Probably started as a low oxygen situation , but the second you opened that bag he would have experience extreme PH swing and toxic ammonia levels. That's a triple whammy I'm impressed he's survived, best thing to do now is leave him alone, Keep the tank dark and warm let him rest hopefully he'll come around, watch for redness in the scales and gills as it may have had a bit of ammonia burn being in the bag so long. Some stress coat and a bit of salt might help bring him around as well but most important is clean warm water and stay away, hovering around or bothering him wont help, if he's not floating belly leave him alone every time you look at him it adds stress!

Everyone makes mistakes, lot's of people commented on that but few offered advise so for future reference if you get fish shipped the goal should be to have it out of the bag as quickly as possible.

Setting the bag in the tank for 20min to let the temps adjust is a good idea especially if there is a big difference between the tank and the bag water temperature but that's about all that's needed. A very common mistake is opening to bag to let in air, DO NOT open the bag at all until your ready to remove the fish from it and when you do open the bag get the fish out quick! The buildup of C02 in the bag lowers the PH in the water and this very low PH protects the fish from the built up ammonia. The second you open the bag the CO2 is released from the water the PH spikes very rapidly and suddenly the ammonia becomes very toxic. This is far more harmful then being left in a low oxygen environment.

+1, keep us updated.


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Poor guy has to change his name now, feel like this ones going to get brought up a bit
 
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