Arowana fish-Care tips:

Arowana Care Tips that will Work Perfectly for your Fish<br />Despite the fact that arowanas are among the most popular aquarium pets for several decades now, there are still owners who are unable to comprehend those important details related to proper arowana care. If you want to own an arowana, you have to make sure that you won’t belong to those owners who do not know how to provide their arowanas the best care possible. <br />Prior to purchasing your arowana, you have to learn all details about how to care for them. Their living condition should be a major factor when it comes to this. Since arowanas naturally live in a tropical environment, you have to make sure that you provide them a replica of this environment. However, the environment should be dependent on the specific breed of your chosen arowana. Because of this, you should also take an effort to learn about those breeds so you will be able to provide them the kind of habitat that they prefer through proper designing of their tank or aquarium.<br />It is also advisable that you do not put two arowanas in one tank. Even if your chosen tank is huge enough to accommodate two newly born arowanas, it is still not advisable that you put two of them there because it is proven that when arowanas grow older and become larger, their territorial instincts tend to become stronger as well. You have to avoid the possibility of making your arowana turn into an aggressive fish. You should also prevent putting water in the aquarium that has high acid or saline content. Doing this would affect the feeding habit of your arowana and would contribute to the existence of fish aquarium diseases. If you want to learn more about proper arowana care, it is highly recommended that you go for expert advices. You can get this by reading books that generally talk about arowanas. Doing this would ensure that you get highly effective advices regarding the proper care and rearing of your arowanas. <br />The Arowana fish is easy to keep, but hard to master when it comes to bringing out its best colors.

Food care:

Another important note when it comes to feeding your Arowana fish is the fact that these fishes are good jumpers. As mentioned before, they eat insects on the surface. For them to reach those meals, they snap their body out into the water to gulp in the unfortunate insect. This can also be the case in your aquariums. If you have left some insects on the surface of the water and the tank is not secured tightly, your Arowana can easily knock off the lid, or the whole aquarium. This is the primary reason why veterinarians suggest Arowana enthusiasts to keep their pet's tank closed all the time to prevent a breaking the whole aquarium with the fish in it.

These types of fish, especially the Jardini Arowana, are good hunters. They would rather choose to hunt for their own food rather than accepting spoon fed options. In considering this notion, you can increase the appetite of your pet by bringing him moving targets. Smaller fish may also be a good option, like small goldfish or the usual guppies. The key is to make their mealtimes a bit challenging.

 Disease:

Causes of disease can be shared into two categories namely non-parasitic and parasitic organisms.

Parasitic organisms are originally comes from: viruses, bacteria, fungi, worms or protozoa; whereas non-parasitic medium such as: environmental factors, diet and heredity. But in reality, both of them are difficult to distinguish.

There are many characteristics of Arowana fish attacked by kinds of diseases, either due to parasitic or non-parasitic. It would be seen passive, weak, tending to swim in the water surface, decreased appetite, hard to breath, fish's body that was not slippery. Because of reduced mucous membranes so that fish is easily caught. Other signs, such as: bleeding in the chest , broken scales and cracked dorsal fins.

Environmental factors that cause illnesses are: water pH. Fluctuations of water pH are affected by various things such as: the presence of CO2. Besides that, sudden changes of water temperature also greatly affect Arowana's health.

Decreased oxygen level occurring in the water and the presence of toxic gases, such as: CO2, ammonia and water pollution, will harm Arowana's health. Food factors, such as: feeding fresh fishes, will be a risk factor because they can be a carrier of disease.

Hereditary factors also lead to make health trouble at the Arowana, like as: unwell fish scales, didn't have straight back, albino and conjoined twins.