Issue with arowana.

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he currently isn’t eating. He did yesterday have like white something on the tips of his barbells. I put in some pimafix for fungal infections and it cleared up. Still isn’t eating, tried krill, crickets ect and no luck. He swims around but not his normal self and will stop and the back end will sink like you see in the pics. Any ideas? All other fish are fine. Also, as far as the water, I change my water twice a week.

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Mfkjr75 said:
he currently isn’t eating. He did yesterday have like white something on the tips of his barbells. I put in some pimafix for fungal infections and it cleared up. Still isn’t eating, tried krill, crickets ect and no luck. He swims around but not his normal self and will stop and the back end will sink like you see in the pics. Any ideas? All other fish are fine. Also, as far as the water, I change my water twice a week.

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Have you notice any aggressive behavior from the Texas cichlid? Also possible Arowana was spooked and swam into the aquarium glass.
 
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I assume like tlindsey. Maybe got spooked and hit its head. If your water is fine then I’d just wait it out and give it time. Keep an eye and retry feeding with some live small floating crickets.
 
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tlindsey said:
Have you notice any aggressive behavior from the Texas cichlid? Also possible Arowana was spooked and swam into the aquarium glass.
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tlindsey said:
Have you notice any aggressive behavior from the Texas cichlid? Also possible Arowana was spooked and swam into the aquarium glass.
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im fortunate with the carpintis, he is very a very mellow fish. I know my Brichardi did have babies and are a bit aggressive right now. But they stay at the bottom and the arowana stays primarily at the top. Am debating on taking them out. Last thing I want is for the arowana to get hurt.
 
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IME this is a result of a swim bladder issue, a scared fish (jumping posture), or because the fish slammed into the lid of the tank.

IMO as others have stated this is likely due to the fish jumping (either from stress or being spooked) because you stated the lip had a cotton like growth on it's barbel indicating it likely was scraped or split. I doubt the growth was fungal but it's not ideal that there was growth at all as it indicates the fish is stressed and was unable to produce enough defensive mucus among other things. Unfortunately as the fish is not eating this is something that can only be resolved through time and good water conditions to ensure the stress on the fish is as minimal as possible.

In theory you could try force feeding the fish but IME all my arowanas were extremely resistant towards force feedings so YMMV.

HTH
 
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