Need help on my blue base crossback arowana

[FishLover1984]

Anyone here can see that my arowana is swimming weirdly?? He look fine after few day ago. But just did a wc two ago, that cause him jumping for no reason.. And he started to swim very weird.. The way he swim from top to bottom and bottom to top his head sure will hit the top water of the level..

My water parameters is good ph 7.50.. Always all add anti chlorine first before run in new water and anti bacteria conditioner..

And I got ask of the fish farm that I bought from them, they ask me add in black water to softer the water, do that will be help??

 

[twentyleagues]

Well first off I can't see your fish at all. You'll need to post a pic or a video....if its a movment thing a video please. Sounds like he may have gotten hurt when he jumped, not uncommon. As for the softning of the water I don't know if that will help or not. What is your gh and kh? pH doesn't really tell us much.
What is antibacteria conditioner? Why would you want to use that? What are the rest of your parameters? Ammonia nitrite nitrate?

 

[FishLover1984]

Well first off I can't see your fish at all. You'll need to post a pic or a video....if its a movment thing a video please. Sounds like he may have gotten hurt when he jumped, not uncommon. As for the softning of the water I don't know if that will help or not. What is your gh and kh? pH doesn't really tell us much.
What is antibacteria conditioner? Why would you want to use that? What are the rest of your parameters? Ammonia nitrite nitrate?

Try to post a video here but can't..

Parameters
Ammonia ppm 0
Nitries ppm 0
Nitretes 45
Gh ppm 170
Kh ppm 190

 

[twentyleagues]

Try to post a video here but can't..

Parameters
Ammonia ppm 0
Nitries ppm 0
Nitretes 45
Gh ppm 170
Kh ppm 190

You have to host the video somewhere like YouTube then link it here.
Arowana come from really soft slightly acidic waters. You could try to add the "black water" as you say to soften your water but do it slowly. It's better to have stable water parameters then trying to chase numbers. I only saw a link to softer water possibly effecting color not health ever. I know a lot of keepers of arowana don't really seem to care about their overall health as long as it's pretty, blasting them with tanning lights all day and cramping them in too small of a tank. So to find something about water hardness effecting health was hard to non existent. I did research arowana for a long time as I think they are really cool fish, they are illegal for me to keep, at least the ones I want. Never the less I still learned as much as possible about them. But any information I have is from reading not actual hands on. But imo I saw a lot of miss handling of these animals while learning and still do. There's a lot of people that have or get them that shouldn't.

 

[FishLover1984]

You have to host the video somewhere like YouTube then link it here.
Arowana come from really soft slightly acidic waters. You could try to add the "black water" as you say to soften your water but do it slowly. It's better to have stable water parameters then trying to chase numbers. I only saw a link to softer water possibly effecting color not health ever. I know a lot of keepers of arowana don't really seem to care about their overall health as long as it's pretty, blasting them with tanning lights all day and cramping them in too small of a tank. So to find something about water hardness effecting health was hard to non existent. I did research arowana for a long time as I think they are really cool fish, they are illegal for me to keep, at least the ones I want. Never the less I still learned as much as possible about them. But any information I have is from reading not actual hands on. But imo I saw a lot of miss handling of these animals while learning and still do. There's a lot of people that have or get them that shouldn't.

My arowana is back to normal.. From what I know by blasting them on tanning light won't cos any healthy at all.. Unless water parameters is bad, fish stress ect..

 

[twentyleagues]

I'm not going to touch that. I'm glad your fish is better. Take care.

 

[Aanand]

Glad your fish is better.
By experience, instead of any expensive additives, you may just add Black Water Extract (to lower the pH) and rock salt - 100gms for 100 ltrs (to kill any parasites and increase fish's metabolism)

Small quantities of both may be added during water change...

Goes against what everyone says - old water is better than new water...