help, my 28" silver aro is dying right now

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Just got home and saw my 28" silver aro upside down in the bottom of the tank. Bearly breathing. He was acting a lil weird last night and today and i saw him sitting on the bottom before i left today. When i grabbed him he spit up food and there was some extra food in the tank but the last time i feed her was early yesterday. At this moment she is bearly breathing i put here in another tank and held her up to soem current and air bubbles.

Any ideas?!?!?! what should i try? im going to keep hold her up to the current and air bubbles in another setup with good quality water.

Any help? i raised this fish since it was 6".
 
aro is 5-7 years old. The water should be well, just did a water change the other day. Large wet/dry, fludized bed filter, uv sterilizer time to time. Just her in the tank. Just has frozen tilapia other day, always has. Could have had to do with that, she spit some up even today when i grabed her, she spit some out. Maybe bad food or clogged system or something caused her to throw up. she was laying on the bottom upside down, now vertical.
 
yeah i buy it fresh or frozen but usually feed fozen. Has been eating it for years along with many other things but that was its diet lately. It seemed like it was breathing a little faster earlier, and then spit up food when i grab it upside down.
 
must be something wrong with her stomach. I think you must unfrozen the food first before it gets eaten to avoid major problems.
 
feeding arowana frozen food isnt so bad, if its small pieces.
first of all, they will no swallow a fully frozen piece of meat or shrimp.
from my experience, they wait untill the thing is thawed anyways.
i have a jardinii that has been fed frozen shrimp all its life - and never thawed.
they put in the mouth for a few minutes and it melts. But of course, no harm in defrosting.

maybe it is the sharp pieces of tail or fins in the fish.
 
The food was always unfozen prior to feeding. I usually used the pre cut with no bones and stuff. And im sure in the last feeding it wasn't large chunks or sharp or anything. I had feed it some of the same tilapia purchased at the same time before so i dont think the fish was bad.

Whatever it was, it took her out pretty fast. She was swimming when i left, was gone for about 3-4 hours, and upside down on the bottom when i got home. She died prob 20-30 min after i made the post. Not really much i could do once i got to her.

ahhh! The pains and pleasures of fish keeping.
My large silver was a kind of representation of my achievements in my life.
 
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