silver aro dead after 5 days.......:(

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I picked up a nice little 4-5" aro the other day.. Today I went downstairs to turn on the light on the tank and it was swimming around... a few hours later I came back downstairs and it was floating upside down.

I have NO IDEA if this fish was eating or not... now I don't know if I need to start this tank over again.. this sucks..

please ask questions and help me sort this out.. I have a warranty still on the fish so I can get a replacement but y'know... I don't want this to happen again.

Do aros need to start out in a tank with nothing else present??
 
Water parameters? How was it acclimated? what is the pH of your tank's water and what is the pH of the LFS water?
 
it never touched LFS water.. it came in next day and sat in the bag til I picked it up. ..basically was only there at the store for 30 minutes.. ...but even so, both the LFS and I keep water roughly neutral.. sometimes slightly acidic.

this fish was swimming the top water most of the time, I only saw it go low in the tank a couple times. down and back up again...*shrug*
 
sorry for your loss...the first 3 silvers i had all died unexpectedly. not sure why, but they were all under 4in. (water par. were good, slighly high nitrate due to wetdry) got one at 7in. that is now 21in. could be that young silver are very fragile.
 
read my sig. ...add a bunch of guppies...

I checked over the body closely.. no signs of damage.. just looks like it starved to death.
 
KurseD;1199188; said:
sorry for your loss...the first 3 silvers i had all died unexpectedly. not sure why, but they were all under 4in. (water par. were good, slighly high nitrate due to wetdry) got one at 7in. that is now 21in. could be that young silver are very fragile.
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what did you feed your youngn's? yeah I've read that too about them being fragile...

I have live plants in the tank.. a water lily in a pot and a bunch of grassy type "weeds" so the nitrates shouldn't be an issue.. I guess I'll turn in the dead one and work on the water conditions more closely..

yet another FLE.... (frustrating learning experience)
 
So you gave no concern to pH whatsoever? Other then "roughly neutral". You may consider a slow drip acclimation next time. To many people just use the excuse "small aros are fragile" so they die. Yes they are fragile so treat them accordingly.
 
Eh i have to slap myself to not get a baby baby silver because they are so cute, and if i had one from that stage omg it would wind up being more spoiled than my cats
hard to say what caused the problem if it had just lost it's yolk sac and never ate...
hung out for a couple hours at an lfs while we got one that had just come in like that to eat baby crickets friend wanted it but it had not eaten...
arrows usually stay close to the surface, if it wasn't gasping, could have been normal but could have had gill damage from ammonia
if it was in the bag for a while, soon's you open the bag the ammonia spikes which is why you either want to dump em rapidly in a bucket with some amquell plus or if a large fish add amquel to it's bag
then gradually acclimate...
anyway better luck next time
 
I don't buy Arowana that are less than 6" at bare minimum :) And even at 8" they are fragile..
 
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