When breeding arowana, they may get some diseases. For example, if there are symptoms of their belly bulging, it means that they have "ascites disease". The harm of this disease is still relatively large, and the symptoms are more obvious. In the early stage of morbidity, in addition to the phenomenon of abdominal swelling, they may also be observed in the anal swelling phenomenon. If not treated, the condition can become more serious, and in addition to these symptoms, the whole body can lose balance due to abdominal water, and their head will be down.
This disease is relatively common when arowana are young. There are many reasons, maybe because they eat stale bait, or maybe because they eat some prickly food, and then the sharp thorns scratch them, causing bacterial infection, they may get the disease.
In the emergence of related symptoms, must be treated in time. If the symptoms show that arowana in the early stages of morbidity, then you can use 1% of the salt water for sterilization treatment. At the same time, measures such as proper water exchange and proper increase of water temperature are also needed. However, if the symptoms are serious and the arowana has lost its balance, then special drugs should be used. For example, you can use some fungicides, the more common concentration of 5% methyl blue solution, you can drop some in the water. Furthermore, you have to use potassium dichromate solution to the sick arowana for medicinal bath, each time about 3 minutes.
