Need help with possibly overfed Arowana

[Red Devil]

How is he doing today?

 

[sk8mon]

How is he doing today?

Still swimming around the bottom and not eating, but it doesn't seem like it's getting any worse, so that's a good thing. Also, every few minutes, it stops swimming and kind of wiggles its tail for a bit on top of the gravel. Is this a sign that something is wrong?

 

[classic-chassis]

My RTG spends most of its time sat still. There is lots of water flow, It just likes to sit there and do nothing. When i go near the tank it'll slowly come up and have a look at me then swim round a bit.
In the evening it swims a bit more than in the day. If there is food (live crickets) floating on the top it will swim back and forth for about 20 minutes before it decides it's going to eat one.
However, with yours being so small it needs to eat. Try some fresh water glass shrimp, they will go to the bottom of the tank and may encourage it to eat without having to swim to the surface.

 

[Arowana718]

I had the same issue w/ 10inch jardini just recently. I am an idiot that put 7 feeder fish inside the tank. When i came back couple hrs, all of the feeders were gone. My aro just sits lazy n chills on the bottom. It happenned to me in the past b4 when i overfeed it w/ shrimps. A week later, he started swimmin normal again.

 

[Adrius]

About one week ago, my arowana ate three rosy red minnows in one night, a few dried shrimps the next day, another minnow the next night, and a few more shrimps the day after. It stopped eating the next day and the following day after it stopped, it started swimming near the bottom of the tank. It has now been about 5 days or so since it had stopped eating and began swimming at the bottom. Will it go back to normal? I've already gotten the water tested, and everything is fine. I didn't know we were overfeeding it til i started doing some research the past few days. I'm not sure if it could be some other problem also.

RE-LAX
its digesting
goes to the bottom because waters denser, so it happens faster

 

[Bderick67]

I'm sure this arowana is fine. It's had a year and a half to digest all those rosy red minnows and shrimp.

 

[Arowana718]

i guess its normal. when they are overfed, the body is using alotta energy digesting the food so it sits on the bottom like it's got food coma

 

[ctoychik]

my 2 cents. i am wary when the aros sit on the bottom or stationary. this only happens in my tank which is close to the main entrace. my asian aros hate that tank. the only one that did not mind it was black aro.

the XB that i moved back into comm tank no longer sits at the bottom. (having said that my bottom-sitting aros always swam during the night when no one was around)