Recent content by Irishman05

Yes, they're amazing, and if algae can grow, so can hardier plants. Depending on your water conditions and light levels, you can have various plants. Anubias is often good, since it doesn't require substrate, grows best in dimmer areas and is hardy to water and attempted munching.

Ah I see.

Can you get a picture? It would definitely help

What's the issue with duckweed?

(To clarify, I do not wish to keep an arowana at this time, as I'm far too incompetent for such a difficult fish) I wonder if anyone has tried this, but since arowana need to jump, why not allow them? Hear me out. Hang a fine net from the ceiling and keep it under the tank. Make sure it's taut...

A shop called Petstop. But toxins I find unlikely since I used one of the driftwood pieces before and the other was from them shop and had a little tag mentioning it was clean of toxins, so I imagine it had been cleaned well.

Not sure, I'd ask @Colin_T

Actually antibiotics in general. While it could be viral, it's almost certainly bacterial or parasitical. And that will kill him, so I'd say antibiotics are worth it. I've lost too many fish to dropsy.

Try Try feeding him peas, but with the pineconing i think it's dropsy. Get an antibacterial, he might have a chance. Keep him isolated though, don't want to create an immune strain of any other bacteria in the water.

Yeah probably. Some of the fish looked a little bloated in the shop. We thought they were pregnant. Turns out they probably had dropsy. And believe me I know it isn't bloat. Bloat doesn't spread, kill quickly, or cause them to start rolling around except with a very bad case. Also peas didn't work

I'm no expert, but I'd advise you to isolate him and give him antibacterials. He likely has dropsy, which is usually bacterial in nature.

Okay. By the way, I'm pretty much certain it's dropsy. Also I had to euthanise another fish because he was too far gone. Here's a link https://drive.google.com/file/d/14cj-l3zQlzbev_MFIvg4DUHrzexCP6d2/view?usp=sharing

I don't think many because of this, and the fact that in most species the females prefer non glowing males. Natural selection will finish them off fast.