Sorry guys about all the questions but my arowana is acting strange.

[Tobiassorensen]

Ok, I won’t do any arowana. I’ll go with some bichirs and maybe a spotter gar and cichlids, I’ll do 50 percent water changes every 9 days. Or every Sunday if that’s what it comes to.

Start out with some cichlids and see what it takes with them. Then you can jump on to larger fish. The larger the fish is the more maintenence it is. And the more filtration you will need. On my 3200L tank i run an beadfilter thats supposed to handle 36000L koipond and in addition to that i run two large showerfilters with roughly 80L of biomedia and an protein skimmer.

 

[Tobiassorensen]

It’s not that I don’t have time to do water changes, I really like these fish so I’ll do them weekly if that’s what’s necessary, it’s more that I just wanted to relax on the weekends. But I care more about these fish more than I do relaxing lol

With larger fish there is no relaxing. I spend almost two hours every day in my fishroom to feed and monitor all my fish

 

[idkjardiniagressive?]

Yes I understand that, which is perfectly fine, I love these fish. Also two hours a day with 35 tanks would be a good 15-30 min a day with my 2 tanks, one being a nano fish planted tank.

 

[Tobiassorensen]

Yes I understand that, which is perfectly fine, I love these fish. Also two hours a day with 35 tanks would be a good 15-30 min a day with my 2 tanks, one being a nano fish planted tank.

Well yes. Those two hours is only for feeding and monitoring. Wc take usually half a day for half of the tanks. So i change water two days a week. Half of the tanks one day and the other half one day..

 

[idkjardiniagressive?]

Ok, I’ll do weekly water changes then, but still get rid of the arowana so I can get fish such as spotted gar and cichlids that don’t require such tight water parameters . Thank you for all of the advice, this arowanas life is hopefully saved.

 

[idkjardiniagressive?]

Also I’d love to see a pic of your 3200 liter if you can post one.

 

[Tobiassorensen]

Also I’d love to see a pic of your 3200 liter if you can post one.

Check the youtubelink i posted.

 

[twentyleagues]

Omg. Come on really. All fish deserve the same care. Suck it up do the water changes and take care of your arowana! You are going to get rid of the arowana to get a gar and some polys they also deserve clean water. And all fish do better in tanks with regular water changes. You people absolutely bring out the worst in me...... I dont know how I keep it pc sometimes.

 

[idkjardiniagressive?]

Honestly its not even that, its a 200 dollar fish that I don't want to risk dying. The way I want to have the tank(a decent amount of fish in it ) the arowana won't thrive. And people like you do bring out the worst in me as well, did you not see my previous post saying that I am going to do the weekly water changes. Before you passively insult someone read the whole thing. I'm getting rid of the arowana regardless, I love the fish but it's so expensive to risk death. I'd rather have a few 40-120 dollar fish rather that a 200. On top of that the fish is still decently small so the store can take him back. But honestly I want to keep him... Actually will he be ok with weekly 25 percent water changes and living in a somewhat heavily stocked tank?

 

[idkjardiniagressive?]

If I keep the jardini and do the weekly 25 percent water changes will he live ok with 5 bichirs, maybe one spotted gar, 2 kelbri peacock bass, and one pike cichlid, and some green terrors.