Indo super red update

[headbanger_jib]

Well it's been a while since may 2019 to now.

When I received the fish, it was highly skittish, and I thought I lost it when it started gasping. Here's how this began

New fish skittish behavior

Well this Sunday I received two Asian arowanas One is 5" another is 4"+ Both of them are housed in a 90gallon tank with a 30gallon sump. Tank mates are a 11" p. Cochliodon and a 3" p. Leopardus. It's been more than 5 days, they are still hiding behind a rock, and are quite scared most of the...

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After this first few weeks of a lot of stress, trial and error, today I am sharing an update of the red, although even now he is very particular about when he eats and would go into stress fasting, for any small change.

There was another issue that happened with this specimen, anchor worms, with all the floods around our country, I do a water change in the night and next day evening I see anchor worms, and I couldn't procure meds soon, took me nearly 10 days to get, so I kinda ordered extra, for emergencies now.

Enough talk here's a video

Will try and click some pics soon

 

[islandguy11]

That's the thing about Arowana, they can be the most magnificent of fish to keep, but also the most frustrating. Out of the blue, my BBXB suddenly decided she only likes shrimp with some red in it and totally stopped eating any kind of pure white shrimp, which she had always eagerly devoured, go figure. Similar stories can be heard from many, personally I think they're just trying to mess with our heads lol.

I've never had to deal with anchor worms (knock on wood), but I think Ocean Free products are available in India (I've seen them on Amazon India) and you might consider to try their 'O' Anchor Worms & Fish Lice treatment.



They claim it can:

• Treat all Anchor Worm and Fish Lice attacks on Arowanas and Stingrays
• Effective even to kill the eggs and lava of parasites
• Can be use to treat crustaceans e.g. Trichodina and Gill Flakes
• Mild and safe and suitable to be use with sensitive wild caught fishes
• Not only for treatment purposes, also for prevention purposes
• Totally harmless to filter beneficial bacteria

So next time you think some flooding may happen in your area you might consider to use this as a preventative measure (though I cannot personally claim to its efficiency).

 

[headbanger_jib]

That's the thing about Arowana, they can be the most magnificent of fish to keep, but also the most frustrating. Out of the blue, my BBXB suddenly decided she only likes shrimp with some red in it and totally stopped eating any kind of pure white shrimp, which she had always eagerly devoured, go figure. Similar stories can be heard from many, personally I think they're just trying to mess with our heads lol.

I've never had to deal with anchor worms (knock on wood), but I think Ocean Free products are available in India (I've seen them on Amazon India) and you might consider to try their 'O' Anchor Worms & Fish Lice treatment.

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They claim it can:

• Treat all Anchor Worm and Fish Lice attacks on Arowanas and Stingrays
• Effective even to kill the eggs and lava of parasites
• Can be use to treat crustaceans e.g. Trichodina and Gill Flakes
• Mild and safe and suitable to be use with sensitive wild caught fishes
• Not only for treatment purposes, also for prevention purposes
• Totally harmless to filter beneficial bacteria

So next time you think some flooding may happen in your area you might consider to use this as a preventative measure (though I cannot personally claim to its efficiency).

Yes I use the same meds

 

[islandguy11]

Yes I use the same meds

Have you found it to be effective?

 

[headbanger_jib]

Have you found it to be effective?

Very, sometimes the dose has to be repeated, else it works within 4-5 days.

Even rays and eels and scaleless cats aren't effected, even shrimp

 

[islandguy11]

Very, sometimes the dose has to be repeated, else it works within 4-5 days.

Even rays and eels and scaleless cats aren't effected, even shrimp

That's good for everyone to know, esp. those of us in Asia who often don't have as easy access to some other meds. Yeah I know they have their 'secret formulas' and all, but OF seems to be about the best option we have out this way (and it's even arguable that some of their products are superior to Western ones -- they certainly know Arowana better than any other similar company imo, they've been breeding and testing with them for decades.

I've used their general ‘0’ Arowana Disease before as a preventative measure but couldn't really gauge the effectiveness. It's a bit pricey to be using frequently on bigger tanks so I haven't bought any for a while, but your feedback on their related 'O' product makes me think I should use it maybe once or twice a month.

 

[headbanger_jib]

That's good for everyone to know, esp. those of us in Asia who often don't have as easy access to some other meds. Yeah I know they have their 'secret formulas' and all, but OF seems to be about the best option we have out this way (and it's even arguable that some of their products are superior to Western ones -- they certainly know Arowana better than any other similar company imo, they've been breeding and testing with them for decades.

I've used their general ‘0’ Arowana Disease before as a preventative measure but couldn't really gauge the effectiveness. It's a bit pricey to be using frequently on bigger tanks so I haven't bought any for a while, but your feedback on their related 'O' product makes me think I should use it maybe once or twice a month.

I for one don't use meds at all, but when there's an infestation or some ailment that requires meds, I don't mind using.

Zero anchor and fish lice i have even used on my pond once before, when I got fish lice infestation, luckily one course was enough.

The super red needed two courses as one anchor worm on its pectoral was quite persistent.

This was a freak incident, one water change and next day evening the fish had fish lice, a few other tanks also got fish lice.

 

[islandguy11]

I for one don't use meds at all, but when there's an infestation or some ailment that requires meds, I don't mind using.

Zero anchor and fish lice i have even used on my pond once before, when I got fish lice infestation, luckily one course was enough.

The super red needed two courses as one anchor worm on its pectoral was quite persistent.

This was a freak incident, one water change and next day evening the fish had fish lice, a few other tanks also got fish lice.

Same here regarding meds, though being an 'herbal based remedy' I personally consider '0' Arowana Disease more acceptable/safer as a preventative measure, not exactly the same but a bit akin to using kattapa leaves (but of course I could be wrong). Interestingly though, while they both have the '0' designation, Anchor Worm and Fish Lice doesn't specifically mention being herbal-based, nor does it have the picture of the plant. Yet they describe it as being gentler, and it clearly is by your experience. Who knows, maybe it has some herbal plus regular meds so they can't really refer to it as herbal based, not sure.

 

[headbanger_jib]

Same here regarding meds, though being an 'herbal based remedy' I personally consider '0' Arowana Disease more acceptable/safer as a preventative measure, not exactly the same but a bit akin to using kattapa leaves (but of course I could be wrong). Interestingly though, while they both have the '0' designation, Anchor Worm and Fish Lice doesn't specifically mention being herbal-based, nor does it have the picture of the plant. Yet they describe it as being gentler, and it clearly is by your experience. Who knows, maybe it has some herbal plus regular meds so they can't really refer to it as herbal based, not sure.

Oh it is gentle for sure, I am talking fish such as baby BD rays, baby tigrinus, being ok when I first treated the tank for argulus.

I think they just use dimilin in a very calculated method.