My Silver Aro (Bullet) swims weird after jumping out of tank!!!!

[marshdiesel]

oh man i hope he gets better... thats sad. ive had a couple of mine jump out, but nothing like that has ever happened. good luck.

 

[Ransom]

i hope your fish survives maybe with a bit of time it will heal up

 

[sodenoshirayuki]

Could be just trauma, when one of mine jumped out, it was swimming forward and then would drift backwards for 2 seconds or so and start swimming again. This stopped after 4 days. But I also second the swim bladder idea. If hes swimming tilted its usually the swim bladder.

 

[random fish guy]

beautiful silver, hope he makes it. GL

 

[Joergemathew]

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[ruben7520]

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Its still there. u just hav to wait a while...

 

[ruben7520]

Silver Aro (Bullet) jumped into over flo n died......R.I.P. he was soo beautiful... it was the second time he did it. This time i came too late... i think that after the initial jump he somehow developed brain trauma. bcs he was a little bit weird...

 

[burrier]

this happened after one of my fish was left buried in gravel after my mom tore my tank down cause we were moving. he was still alive but when i stuck it back in the water i could have swore it was dead. it made it through but swam funny for about 2 weeks. then all of a sudden it started swimming like normal. maybe yours will heal like mine?

 

[burrier]

oh i just read your last post... maybe i should have done that first... sorry for your loss...

 

[zerojquan85]

I think i know why its swimming like that..

My own silver arowana at 11" is swimming with a slight tilted.. AND.. he has a drop eye..

this problem might be related to drop eye.. later on...

I dont want to scare you.. because i could be wrong.. but what happen to my fish was this..

I had him in a 5gallon tank (at 6") I know BIG mistake right.... so he jumped out and landed 3 ft below.. He was fine until when we moved him to a 55g... thats when i saw that he was swimming tilted.. and slowly.. drop eye on his right side.. He now has a drop eye and continues to swimming with a 75-80degree tilted.....

I hope ur arowana will be fine.. but he might have hurt himself...

Also.. i saw the youtube vid.. I would say lowering the water level since he's still a young fish.. about 6inches?? Try lowering 3-4 inches of water level... I do that for my tank.. to prevent him from jumping out...

anyways.. good luck!