Poor guy.
The store did have him in a tank labeled "Trade In: Not For Sale". Not sure what could ever be don for this guy.
Also, you can see in the bottom left that fish was pretty well shredded.
Saw this at my LFS
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Poor guy.
The store did have him in a tank labeled "Trade In: Not For Sale". Not sure what could ever be don for this guy.
Also, you can see in the bottom left that fish was pretty well shredded.
I'm not very familiar with aro's but is this caused by an injury, poor living conditions or is it just genetic?
Sure you can keep an arowana in a 150 it's hole life...
I suppose the only thing that could be done would be to get him into a massive tank asap. Looks like he broke his spine at one point, maybe he bonked the glass really hard or was attacked? Probably not reversible. Poor dude.
On the upside I've had crooked spine guppies that have been just fine (was gunna cull but a friend wanted them, they lived a good life), not sure how it would be with an arowana though.
On the upside I've had crooked spine guppies that have been just fine (was gunna cull but a friend wanted them, they lived a good life), not sure how it would be with an arowana though.
I have seen fish like that being sold like that. It's was on youtube. It was a tour of some asain fish shops. There was a tank for fish just like that I believe they were channa micro.and a few others If I can remember right. I'll see if I can find the video again
I think it's birth defected, I saw juv. silvers with crook back like above quite often in a LFS focus selling silver arowana only, think about it...if it slammed itself that hard to broke it back like that, it would be dead by now, even if this one was rise in a 50G tank its back won't be like that neither.