Help! There's something wrong with my Jar...?

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morbidprince

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Hi it's my first time posting on MFK... so please forgive me if I posted this in the wrong spot.... I'm just out of ideas here on what to do with my Jardini...he's only 5 years old, 13inches... living in a 180gallon tank..

Yesterday I came home and realized he's lost a little bit of color and became rather lethargic and most of all not eating or expressing any interest in his food and the water all of a sudden got cloudy and foamy!!! Argh! I can't find my water testing kit!! Sorry I'm just freaking out atm...

He/she's belly looks swollen... see photos...

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It looks very swollen to me...and all tank mates have been accounted for...

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AARRGH!! look at that water!!! It's horrible!!!! it was crystal clear last night!! :cry:

I'm not sure if this is very significant...but last month this jar ate our beloved 10in senegal bichir... ( that was hard enough as we were just about the move the bichir out as the jar got big and started bullying it ) and I read articles here about arowanas having issues with eating prawns with sharp pincers..but I see no swelling or redness of the anus on my jar..just a bloated tummy and lost interest in food. we've been feeding him hikari arowana sticks since then. I'm not sure if the bones of the bichir has damaged something inside him or what...I don't know but this just started yesterday, the day before he was fine, eating and swimming about, and the water looked fine...

I've done a 10% water change today to see if it helps.. prior to this, I had just performed my routine 25% weekly water change and the next day this happened...could there be something in the water? Is his/her tummy bloated or am I just overreacting? :nilly:

All tankmates are accounted for so he didn't eat something big. The tank is sand substrate with a few barteri plants.

Thank you for reading...any help or advice I would greatly appreciate it...
 
If he ate the bichir a month ago, I'm guessing it probably has nothing to do with this. I'm not really sure if he looks bloated, hard to tell, if he is, it is just slight. I would find your test kit and take some measurements. If not, do another larger water change to keep conditions clean. Do a check on your filtration to see if everything is up to par. GL
 
Thank you for your reply Vanimate. I'm a little more calm than before...I'll keep posting my findings here... Can't really pin my finger on anything now that I can't test the water...but foamy and cloudy is def alarming... Another thing I'm not sure if it's significant either... but his/her poop is orange brown, thin and stringy and partly translucent? Is that of a clue of anything? He's always pooped bigger... and more solid
 
headbanger_jib;2340938; said:
at 5 years age he is 13"
how is that right are you sure he is 5 years
and yeah you need to do water changes
he doesn't look bloated though

check this out
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180974


then check this
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182017
hope this helps
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Maybe more like 4 years... but I know.. he's so small.. we bought a 180g for a monster and we got a shrimp... when he was only 3" and we were still waiting for our custom built monster tank he was housed for 6 months in a 20 gallon tank...could that have stunted his growth?? :confused:

Thanks so much for the links, I'm so happy to hear your Jar was okay!

I'm going to try what you did...once I get the water cleared up too... I'll try to get him/her to eat FD Shrimp... or frozen brine shrimp. Atm he/she doesn't seem to have any appetite though ... maybe if I starve him for a little longer, he/she hasn't touched anything for 2 days now.

I'll keep you guys updated!
 
morbidprince;2341121; said:
Maybe more like 4 years... but I know.. he's so small.. we bought a 180g for a monster and we got a shrimp... when he was only 3" and we were still waiting for our custom built monster tank he was housed for 6 months in a 20 gallon tank...could that have stunted his growth?? :confused:

Thanks so much for the links, I'm so happy to hear your Jar was okay!

I'm going to try what you did...once I get the water cleared up too... I'll try to get him/her to eat FD Shrimp... or frozen brine shrimp. Atm he/she doesn't seem to have any appetite though ... maybe if I starve him for a little longer, he/she hasn't touched anything for 2 days now.

I'll keep you guys updated!
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20 gall for 6 months wtf mate just wait the 6 months next time before buying the fish thats animal cruelty right there...
 
yea that whole six month was torture.. :( Long story, were were never suppose to wait 6 months...
We were suppose to get the 180g within 1 month of getting him, the lfs selling this guy was closing and no one wanted him because he has broken fins, his bigger tank mates nibbling on him. I asked if they are able to hold it until my big tank arrive... they said they were going to get rid of it if no one buys him in the next week. People of that fish store had no idea what they're doing...

Anyway...the people building our monster tank screwed up on delivery. One of the guys cracked the tank so it had to be re-done... they promised the repair was to be done in 2 months as they have a back log of order, they got it done in 2 months but something else messed up and it was leaking... so that took another 2 months... during this whole time we can't return it to the pet store cause it's closed.... the only good part is that the 180g tank... was almost half price... due to all that screw up..

Yea... never do custom orders with that place again... :/
 
whoa, thats a good looking jardi! i hope he's doing ok. is your water still cloudy after the water changes?
 
fish poop unusually when the water makes them sick. if its swimming wrong then your water is probably the cause seeing as its cloudy. maybe your filter crashed or something through lack of air from a blackout or something? just keep changing but make sure the new water is good too.
 
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