Jardini Arowana

Common name : Pearl Arowana, Northern Spotted, Gulf Saratoga Barramundi, Australian Pearl Arowana, Australian Arowana, Jardini Arowana, Silver Barramundi, dan Northern Barramundi.

Scientific name :  Scleropages Jardinii.

Average Adult Fish Size : 45 - 65 cm

Place of Origin : ,Indonesia

Tank setup : A lot of swimming space is necessary,no decorate more better then you decorate it with rock work, bogwood/driftwood and sturdy plants. Because an agitated asian arowana may uproot plants with poor root systems.

Minimum Aquarium Capacity : 55 gallon / 220 litre for juveniles, but a fully grown adult will need an aquarium that is 250 gallon / 1000 litre or larger.

Compatibility : 4 or more juveniles can be kept together, but 6 or more is better. The same with adults, but this is a gamble as some adults never tolerate others of their own kind. Beside keeping them in more bigger tank they should be kept with peaceful to moderately aggressive fish that cannot be eaten and that will not harass the arowana fish.

Temperature : 24 – 30 Deg C, and 34 Deg C when do the treatment.

pH Balance : pH 6.0 – 7.7

Feeding : Juveniles will readily eat small fish, tadpoles, fresh water shrimp, live brine shrimp, live brown worms, small earthworms and other live foods, for adults they will eat any life animal like frog,shrimp,crickets,cockroach.

Sexing : Male more longer,more color, and female have a wider body, especially when having eggs, females will look fat.

Breeding : Asian arowana are mouthbrooders and are readily bred in large ponds, but difficult in aquariums.Until now, only Silver Arowana Brazil can breed in the aquariums.

Additional information for a hobbyst : It is critical that the aquarium has a tight fitting and secured lid that is extremely strong. asian arowana are avid jumpers and can easily knock a heavy glass lid onto the floor! Many an asian arowana has been lost this way. They do not tolerate poor water quality, so excellent filtration along with frequent partial water changes of 25% to 70% or more everyday is required to keep nitrates low.
Their tank should be placed in low traffic area to keep the asian arowana from getting frightened by sudden movements. Sudden movements around their aquarium should be avoided. Lighting should preferably be dimmed instead of suddenly turning it on or off. A scared or agitated Arowana can easily injure itself.

In Indonesia this fish more familiar with the name Irian Arowana or Jardini Arowana,these fish were indeed stemming from New Guinea or Papua, both in Papua Indonesia or Papua New Guinea, also in the northern part of Australia.
Native arowana from New Guinea has 2 variant types. commonly found basic colored green with red Pearl color, and the other type is basic color black with gold Pearl color, black with gold Pearl color more difficult to found it. In Australia found jardini types (basic colors green, red Pearl) or familiar with name spotted red pearl (scleropages leichardty).
Video for this type will be upload as soon as possible, for now let me show you 3 video for unique super red arowana below :

Green Arowana

Common name : Green Arowana, pino, Asian Arowana, Asia Arowana, Dragon Fish, and Asian Bonytongue.

Scientific name :  Scleropages Formosus.

Average Adult Fish Size : 45 - 65 cm.

Place of Origin : Indonesia,Myanmar

Tank setup : A lot of swimming space is necessary,no decorate more better then you decorate it with rock work, bogwood/driftwood and sturdy plants. Because an agitated asian arowana may uproot plants with poor root systems.

Minimum Aquarium Capacity : 55 gallon / 220 litre for juveniles, but a fully grown adult will need an aquarium that is 250 gallon / 1000 litre or larger.

Compatibility : 4 or more juveniles can be kept together, but 6 or more is better. The same with adults, but this is a gamble as some adults never tolerate others of their own kind. Beside keeping them in more bigger tank they should be kept with peaceful to moderately aggressive fish that cannot be eaten and that will not harass the arowana fish.

Temperature : 24 – 30 Deg C, and 34 Deg C when do the treatment.

pH Balance : pH 6.0 – 7.7

Feeding : Juveniles will readily eat small fish, tadpoles, fresh water shrimp, live brine shrimp, live brown worms, small earthworms and other live foods, for adults they will eat any life animal like frog,shrimp,crickets,cockroach.

Sexing : Male more longer,more color, and female have a wider body, especially when having eggs, females will look fat.

Breeding : Asian arowana are mouthbrooders and are readily bred in large ponds, but difficult in aquariums.Until now, only Silver Arowana Brazil can breed in the aquariums.

Additional information for a hobbyst : It is critical that the aquarium has a tight fitting and secured lid that is extremely strong. asian arowana are avid jumpers and can easily knock a heavy glass lid onto the floor! Many an asian arowana has been lost this way. They do not tolerate poor water quality, so excellent filtration along with frequent partial water changes of 25% to 70% or more everyday is required to keep nitrates low.
Their tank should be placed in low traffic area to keep the asian arowana from getting frightened by sudden movements. Sudden movements around their aquarium should be avoided. Lighting should preferably be dimmed instead of suddenly turning it on or off. A scared or agitated Arowana can easily injure itself.

Green Arowana Arowana/Arowana Pino has body color a bit greenish at the scales. For the fins and tail are colored a bit dark brownish. Maybe this is the thing that makes it less attractive in the eyes of the arowana hobbyists. However that does not mean there is no hobbyists want to keep this type.
When compared with the red tail golden arowana, green arowana loses in color. red tail golden arowana has a golden colour on the scales, and on the fins and tail reddish colored. Of course its appeal is higher when compared to the green arowana that looks plain colors.
But back to the taste and interest. There's also some hobbyists that felt that the green color on the green arowana is more interesting than the red and gold colors of the other arowana. There is no doubt there are varieties of prices. Better price is usually more expensive. For those of you who recently got interested to keep green arowana, there is no harm if you choose green arowana as an option. At least the classes are still higher then silver arowana brazil.
So sorry for all of you who read this post, i have no video for green arowana.
But i have a video of the premium blue base super red arowana below :

Banjar Red Arowana

Common name : Banjar Red Arowana, Asian Arowana, Asia Arowana, Dragon Fish, and Asian Bonytongue.

Scientific name :  Scleropages Formosus.

Average Adult Fish Size : 45 - 65 cm.

Place of Origin : Banjarmasin City, West of Kalimantan Island,Indonesia.

Tank setup : A lot of swimming space is necessary,no decorate more better then you decorate it with rock work, bogwood/driftwood and sturdy plants. Because an agitated asian arowana may uproot plants with poor root systems.

Minimum Aquarium Capacity : 55 gallon / 220 litre for juveniles, but a fully grown adult will need an aquarium that is 250 gallon / 1000 litre or larger.

Compatibility : 4 or more juveniles can be kept together, but 6 or more is better. The same with adults, but this is a gamble as some adults never tolerate others of their own kind. Beside keeping them in more bigger tank they should be kept with peaceful to moderately aggressive fish that cannot be eaten and that will not harass the arowana fish.

Temperature : 24 – 30 Deg C, and 34 Deg C when do the treatment.

pH Balance : pH 6.0 – 7.7

Feeding : Juveniles will readily eat small fish, tadpoles, fresh water shrimp, live brine shrimp, live brown worms, small earthworms and other live foods, for adults they will eat any life animal like frog,shrimp,crickets,cockroach.

Sexing : Male more longer,more color, and female have a wider body, especially when having eggs, females will look fat.

Breeding : Asian arowana are mouthbrooders and are readily bred in large ponds, but difficult in aquariums.Until now, only Silver Arowana Brazil can breed in the aquariums.

Additional information for a hobbyist : It is critical that the aquarium has a tight fitting and secured lid that is extremely strong. asian arowana are avid jumpers and can easily knock a heavy glass lid onto the floor! Many an asian arowana has been lost this way. They do not tolerate poor water quality, so excellent filtration along with frequent partial water changes of 25% to 70% or more everyday is required to keep nitrates low.
Their tank should be placed in low traffic area to keep the asian arowana from getting frightened by sudden movements. Sudden movements around their aquarium should be avoided. Lighting should preferably be dimmed instead of suddenly turning it on or off. A scared or agitated Arowana can easily injure itself.

This type still entice hobbyists to have it, even though banjar red arowana is on the third level position.
Red color on the tail is indeed inconspicuous but few have yellowish and greenish base with horse shoe shaped scales with predominance of pink on the scales all over his body.
Have a sparkling yellow fin bit greenish yellowish red colour also on this type of fish make much hunted by the hobbyists. This fish is called a red fin siluk origins namely south kalimantan in the rivers kapuas, Banjarmasin. This fish is called the dragon fin red if it has scales arranged neatly on the back and large size.

Red Tail Golden Arowana

Common name : Red Tail Golden Arowana, Asian Arowana, Asia Arowana, Dragon Fish, and Asian Bonytongue.

Scientific name :  Scleropages Formosus

Average Adult Fish Size : 40 - 65 cm

Place of Origin : Pekan Baru City – Island of Sumatera,Indonesia.

Tank setup : A lot of swimming space is necessary,no decorate more better then you decorate it with rock work, bogwood/driftwood and sturdy plants. Because an agitated asian arowana may uproot plants with poor root systems.

Minimum Aquarium Capacity : 55 gallon / 220 litre for juveniles, but a fully grown adult will need an aquarium that is 250 gallon / 1000 litre or larger.

Compatibility : 4 or more juveniles can be kept together, but 6 or more is better. The same with adults, but this is a gamble as some adults never tolerate others of their own kind. Beside keeping them in more bigger tank they should be kept with peaceful to moderately aggressive fish that cannot be eaten and that will not harass the arowana fish.

Temperature : 24 – 30 Deg C, and 34 Deg C when do the treatment.

pH Balance : pH 6.0 – 7.7

Feeding : Juveniles will readily eat small fish, tadpoles, fresh water shrimp, live brine shrimp, live brown worms, small earthworms and other live foods, for adults they will eat any life animal like frog,shrimp,crickets,cockroach.

Sexing : Male more longer,more color, and female have a wider body, especially when having eggs, females will look fat.

Breeding : Asian arowana are mouthbrooders and are readily bred in large ponds, but difficult in aquariums.Until now, only Silver Arowana Brazil can breed in the aquariums.

Additional information for a hobbyist : It is critical that the aquarium has a tight fitting and secured lid that is extremely strong. asian arowana are avid jumpers and can easily knock a heavy glass lid onto the floor! Many an asian arowana has been lost this way. They do not tolerate poor water quality, so excellent filtration along with frequent partial water changes of 25% to 70% or more everyday is required to keep nitrates low.
Their tank should be placed in low traffic area to keep the asian arowana from getting frightened by sudden movements. Sudden movements around their aquarium should be avoided. Lighting should preferably be dimmed instead of suddenly turning it on or off. A scared or agitated Arowana can easily injure itself.

Red Tail Golden Arowana did not have many variations such as the arowana super red,monotone color thus is favored by many people who assumed that kept the super red arowana is too difficult.
In the past these fish have a pretty bright color,for some reason the current color of the fish is not bright anymore,maybe because the water quality getting worse.
I can't provide a lot knowledge about this fish,because the color did not much change.
You can see a video of the fish below :

Hopefully my post about red tail golden arowana in this blog can gives you additional knowledge about the arowana fish.
see you on the next post, bye bye ... ... ... ... ... ... ....

Super Red Arowana

Today i would like to share a knowledge about some types of arowana fish original from Indonesia starting from the best appropriate levels of popularity, i hope i'm not wrong ha ha ha ....



SUPER RED AROWANA

Common name : Super Red Arowana, Asian Arowana, Asia Arowana, Dragon Fish, and Asian Bonytongue.

Scientific name :  Scleropages Formosus.

Average Adult Fish Size : 60 - 90 cm.

Place of Origin : Pontianak City – West Kalimantan,Kapuas River,Sentarum River,Indonesia.

Tank setup : A lot of swimming space is necessary,no decorate more better then you decorate it with rock work, bogwood/driftwood and sturdy plants. Because an agitated asian arowana may uproot plants with poor root systems.

Minimum Aquarium Capacity : 55 gallon / 220 litre for juveniles, but a fully grown adult will need an aquarium that is 250 gallon / 1000 litre or larger.

Compatibility : 4 or more juveniles can be kept together, but 6 or more is better. The same with adults, but this is a gamble as some adults never tolerate others of their own kind. Beside keeping them in more bigger tank they should be kept with peaceful to moderately aggressive fish that cannot be eaten and that will not harass the arowana fish.

Temperature : 24 – 30 Deg C, and 34 Deg C when do the treatment.

pH Balance : pH 6.0 – 7.7.

Feeding : Juveniles will readily eat small fish, tadpoles, fresh water shrimp, live brine shrimp, live brown worms, small earthworms and other live foods, for adults they will eat any life animal like frog,shrimp,crickets,cockroach.

Sexing : Male more longer,more color, and female have a wider body, especially when having eggs, females will look fat.

Breeding : Asian arowana are mouthbrooders and are readily bred in large ponds, but difficult in aquariums.Until now, only Silver Arowana Brazil can breed in the aquariums.

Additional information for a hobbyist : It is critical that the aquarium has a tight fitting and secured lid that is extremely strong. asian arowana are avid jumpers and can easily knock a heavy glass lid onto the floor! Many an asian arowana has been lost this way. They do not tolerate poor water quality, so excellent filtration along with frequent partial water changes of 25% to 70% or more everyday is required to keep nitrates low.
Their tank should be placed in low traffic area to keep the asian arowana from getting frightened by sudden movements. Sudden movements around their aquarium should be avoided. Lighting should preferably be dimmed instead of suddenly turning it on or off. A scared or agitated Arowana can easily injure itself.
Arowana Super Red is pure and originally from Indonesia ( Pontianak City - Kalimantan Barat ) and this type is the most preferred by the hobbyists, maybe because of the red color.

That's why this type is familiar called super red arowana ( More Red = More Expensive ), but some of them not red.

You have to know and make sure the parents genetik first before you buy this type, many seller or farmer give some guarantee they fish come from good red genetic,but more better if you see the parent stock first.
Buy and maintain super red arowana will give you a lot of things and a bit of variation that motivated you to attempt to make the color of your fish becomes red (according your expectations).
Genetic is not enough, the food is also a factor to make the color of your fish become more red.
The recommended food is shrimp, why should the shrimp? the answer is shrimp contain astaxanthin.
What is astaxanthin? Please click this writing > Astaxanthin
You need to know that the super red arowana fish which is comes from the river and the weather in habitat very very very very very hot.
That is why sometimes the seller or farmer suggested you to buy and use tanning lamps so that the fish is always in top condition and tanning lamp makes your fish become more red.
So that's why I say keep and maintain this fish can give little variations also with little risk,use tanning lamp make super red arowana eyes can going drop time after time.

Step by step of color according to the size of the super red arowana :
Like in the video below :

 

 

In accordance with the fact, the price of super red arowana could reach US $100.000
So fantastic, but that's a hobby, a lot of people want to spend money for a hobby with an unreasonable price.
Well, for the hobbyists who will start to keep these fish,i recommend to start with different type and the price not too expensive first.
You can start from Arowana Silver Brazil and try to handle it until the fish going bigger and after that you can go up to the next level ( Jardini Arowana or Green Arowana ).
Alright then, I'll be back to meet you in the next post. Bye....