How to move your Arowana

[jlnguyen74]

Don't use a pillowcase

Foolish suggestion.

It's not going to hold water, so your fish will freak out and damage itself.

It will tear it's fins, lose scales or break off it's barbels.

Why don't you just use a big plastic bag?

Triple bag or more if you're afraid it will explode...hasn't happened to me though.

Get some from your nearby fish store or try heavy duty garbage bags.

Make sure there's enough water in the bag to chase your fish into it and you're done.

No pillow case!
This is how to move an arowana:
1) Make sure your tank water is clean and ready for new fish, and your tank temp is about the same as the other guy's tank temp.
2) Get a decent size container (plastic tub or styro foam box), put 2-3 heavy duty plastic bags, 1 inside the other, and put them inside the container, fill the inside bag with some water from the tank
3) Drain the water in the other guy's tank to half way to 2/3 down. Turn the light off
4) Use another 2-3 heavy duty plastic bags, put 1 inside the other, and use them to "net" the arowana. Once the arowana is inside the bags, release most of the water out of the bag, and hold the bag as tight as you can, don't give the arowana much room to jump in the bags. The more room you give the arowana, the more chance it can puncture the bags. Once the bags is secured, remove them out of the tank, put them inside the other bags that is in the container, and release the fish into those bags. Fill the water, if needed, until it barely cover the fish top fin. Since you're only 10 minutes from the guy house, you don't need to oxygen, but blow some air in the bags before you tight it, with rubber band or tight wires.
5) Once you get home, release the fish in the tank. You can use the other bags to net it, or just release it from the bags in the container, but the bags in the container are quite heavy, since it has a lot of water Don't bother with acclimate, drip, etc... It's a 15" arowana, so there's a great chance it's end up on your floor during acclimation. That's why the first step is to make sure your tank is ready for new fish
Good luck.

 

[22RIC]

just use a koi bag! pillowcase?:

 

[selki]

Use some common sense here...the point of moving a fish in a bag of water is to keep it from thrashing around and damaging itself.

If you use the thick, heavy bags that fish are shipped in, they aren't going to break when you move a 15 inch arowana...I've done this many times and the worst you get is a few small holes...again, you can triple bag if needed.

How is a wet sack going to help if the fish is squirming because of it?

Since it doesn't sound like you have any experience with this kind of fish, let me tell you, once it begins to squirm and thrash around, the scales come flying off and the fins tear really easily. The barbels come off easy too.

Ask anyone who knows and they are sure to agree.

Do you realize that the value of your fish plummets when these things happen? Of course you don't.

Some of this stuff never grows back like before.

Anyways, I hope this info is helpful to the original thread poster.

Hahahaha Sbuse.. stop making a fool out of yourself. I agree with exoticfish. NEVER USE A PILLOW CASE

 

[exoticfishguy]

Hahahaha Sbuse.. stop making a fool out of yourself. I agree with exoticfish. NEVER USE A PILLOW CASE

I'm going to bring a pillowcase the next time I go fishing at the pier and I'll keep a duvet cover handy in case I spot a shark , dolphin or whale!!!

After all, I don't want to damage it before I reach for the cooler.

 

[Loch Ness]

I have no experience in moving aros, but I would probably bait up a nice fish hook and straight snag that sucker, then you got a fish on a string and you can do whatever you like with it.

 

[selki]

I have no experience in moving aros, but I would probably bait up a nice fish hook and straight snag that sucker, then you got a fish on a string and you can do whatever you like with it.

I dont think you have experience in keeping one either. Your post was 100% useless just like sbuse.

 

[exoticfishguy]

I have no experience in moving aros, but I would probably bait up a nice fish hook and straight snag that sucker, then you got a fish on a string and you can do whatever you like with it.

Nah, you're better off using a pillowcase...although the hook probably won't harm the fish more than a bag would.

Man, I need to get back to work...enough of this

 

[sbuse]

it is funny how everyone can talk sh^t over the internet, but i garentee no one would say anything to my face...

 

[jlnguyen74]

it is funny how everyone can talk sh^t over the internet, but i garentee no one would say anything to my face...

Well, only if they see your face but you gotta pull it out first!

 

[T1KARMANN]

right i have had 9 Asian aros in my comm and now sold them all apart from one so i have moved 8 aros in the space of 1 years so i think i know how to do it and what works and what doesn't

what you need is the big plastic bags LFS call them Koi bags

when you have the bag get a metal coat hook take your coat off the coat hanger

make the coat hanger into a nice ring shape then place the bag in the middle of the coat hook and wrap the bag opening around the coat hook

this will give you a nice round loop at the entrances of the bag which will stop the bag closing in the water

turn all the tank lights on bright with the bag and coat hook in the tank the aro wont see the clear bag in the tank as well with the bright light then make the aro swim throw the loop into the bag as soon as the aro swims in the bag head 1st bring the loop to the front tank glass and turn off the tank lights

let the aro calm down a bit in the bag before you lift the bag and remove the coat hook

then comes the next stage the bag will have to much water to lift out of the tank so place a hose in the bag and drain some water make sure you keep a tight grip on the bag top

lift the bag out of the tank and add more water if needed job done

i have tyred many different methods and this is the best by far

and yes i am a expert at moving aros now

forget the jokers this method is tryed and tested