My 16" Arowana
03-21-2005, 11:45 PM
#1
omghi2u
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I lost my 16" silver today. i got him about 6 months ago and he was about 3-4 inches when i got him. i came home from work and he was vertical rather than horizontal. i saw his gils curling and knew he was done for it.
i did a water change last night. 1/3 in a 40 gallon tank. im thinking i did not add enough stress tyme and chorine remover. i was just about to buy him a 100 gallon tank this weekend too.
this is a pic of him when he was small
i couldnt stand to take a pic of him dead but this is what he looked like, just about the same size too.
i did a water change last night. 1/3 in a 40 gallon tank. im thinking i did not add enough stress tyme and chorine remover. i was just about to buy him a 100 gallon tank this weekend too.
this is a pic of him when he was small
i couldnt stand to take a pic of him dead but this is what he looked like, just about the same size too.
03-22-2005, 02:14 AM
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We had a fish that had been in the family since I was a really young toddler, it was some sort of weatherfish and was really hardy. Everything else in the tanks before had died but it kept on going. Finally one day when I was around 12-13 it jumped out of its tank and committed seppuku. Nice arowana though, aren't those the fish that keep their young in their mouths?
03-22-2005, 03:01 AM
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Wow thats a nice aro, sad it died, they are a really cool fish to have, and a rare one at that, Ide get one but i dont have a bigenough tank, a 40 gal is hardly enough in its own, but sorry to hear for the loss, fish are cool, I have many.
R.I.P Fishy.
R.I.P Fishy.
03-22-2005, 11:41 AM
#6
omghi2u
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yeah the 40 gallon was starting to get too small for him. so i was gonna trade that one in this weekend and get a 100 gallon for 40 bucks more. he got so gib from the start cause i was feeding him feeders, crickets and pellets. but then went strictly to feeders.
when i woke up this morning, it felt really weird looking into the tank and seeing nothing in there. ive also had about 3 algae eaters in his time in that tank, and he killed em all. he was a pretty badass fish. got him for 15 bucks, was maybe worth 100-125 before he died.
when i woke up this morning, it felt really weird looking into the tank and seeing nothing in there. ive also had about 3 algae eaters in his time in that tank, and he killed em all. he was a pretty badass fish. got him for 15 bucks, was maybe worth 100-125 before he died.
