HELP with Jardini!

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Flukes are little worms that attach to the inside of the gills of fish and feed off their blood.
The only thing that I found that works is coppersulfate. And one of the only brands that works with "silver sided fish"(don't get a different brand cause I didn't know this and started killing off my pbass) is "coppersafe".
 
Seems like the problem has been forawhile..

I've notice by far Jardini has the most issue compare to most Arowana... I lost mine due to a horrible bacteria disease... :(


  • Anyways.. My best advice is to relocate the fish to a complete new tank, free of any bacteria/ fungal / parasite...
  • The tank should have the medication in there and each day do 25% water change and temperature at 82-84 degrees.
  • Aquarium salt will help the oxygen transfer for the arowana, it does work.. Also, i would use a tank 20+ gallon with well filter air or filteration..
  • Ac 110 is most preferred.. I've seen fish recovered from oxygen deprivation once an AC110 is attached..
  • If u dont want to use nitrate test kit.. i'd recommend doing water changes and use a plastic cup to see if the water is yellow at all.. (Yellow means there's ammonium, or nitrate high)
  • Repeat all steps until fish is eating...
Recommend diet (Crickets/ and bine shrimp) Use Garlic juice from Market, soak the food (dry pellet) in the garlic juice.. it will help its appitite recover.

Crickets, because of live food.. a hungry arowana never passes up live food.. unless its very sick.. near death...

This is the quickest sure way to save a fish if disease is caught early..

(In terms of the fluke) i dont think it causes Cloudy eye.. But def will effect the gills.. I've seen it eating away the gills of my Oscar..
Thats the most nasty type of parasite and needs to be treated fast!
 
You can treat with melafix for the cloudy eye. However, if it is flukes you will have to do a different treatment as melafix is only for bacterial infections. You can try to treat with a product called cyropro. It is a rather involved treatment, requiring three large weekly water changes, but my JD was not eating and scratching heavily with gill flukes, and after a treatment with cyropro it ended up getting better.
 
ok so I separated the jardini into a 10 gal and his mouth is now back to normal and it appears as though his gills are doing fine as well. the only problem now is that he is still not eating. I have tried soaking some hikari gold pellets in garlic with no such luck, as well as dropping in crickets with no such lack either. he seems to be swimming around the tank normally but hes looking kinda pale now. any adivce on how to get this guy to eat?? i was thinking of maybe putting in a couple baby guppies in just to kickstart an appitite. what do you all think??

edit:: he's not swimming too much, kinda just staying in one spot .
 
IMO cloudy eyes is just a sign of sickness, what makes it sick could be water quality or many other factors, parasites, swimbladder , ect...
 
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