Discussion on Droop Eyes and Fish Diet

1. Comments or contributions about your diet plans for the fish, or in here, particularly Arowana.

2. Should we vote on something interesting too
Most possible/frequent causes of droop eyes ->
1. Genetics
2. Environment
3. Diet/Food
4. Others (list them)

I will start the ball rolling:
1. For my red arowanas, mainly specially formulated pellets and market prawns. For gold, mainly the same pellets and beef/pig heart (mixed with other stuff).

2. Most of the cases I see is diet-caused droop eyes.

[^GeNoME^]

i think for my case... should be enviroment... aros tt i have ever reared does not give me a problem of droop eye at all... my present aro has got droop eye ever since i got it from its previous owner... dun think the diets varies much.... genetic only give the aro the potential to develop this problem.. environmental issues usually plays a bigger part..

I have this concept, although i never own an arowana, but i believe that the cause of droop eyes, is due to the diet & space.

1) Wild arowana do not consume food everyday, not everyday they get to find food, thus they are not kinda of overfed every single day.

2) Wild arowanas have plenty of space for them to swim / (exercise) thus the fats in the body should be lesser. which i find droop eye is kinda of fat deposits.

I believe that because of the limited space that we restrict domestic arowanas and the insane amt of food we give ( we always pamper our fishes do we? ) it may cause the droop eye prob.

Originally Posted by Hitsugaya

I have this concept, although i never own an arowana, but i believe that the cause of droop eyes, is due to the diet & space.

1) Wild arowana do not consume food everyday, not everyday they get to find food, thus they are not kinda of overfed every single day.

2) Wild arowanas have plenty of space for them to swim / (exercise) thus the fats in the body should be lesser. which i find droop eye is kinda of fat deposits.

I believe that because of the limited space that we restrict domestic arowanas and the insane amt of food we give ( we always pamper our fishes do we? ) it may cause the droop eye prob.

Yes, there is a writeup on fat deposit giving droop eyes.

I'll have to disagree that diet is the main cause of drop eyes. I've seen obese aros with perfect eyes. All the aros I've owned, I feed them well. Some do develop drop eyes while others don't.

I've noticed that the more inquisitive aros that tend to swim to & fro the front of the tank looking out tend to be the ones that develop drop eyes.

The way the eyes are set also has a part to play. Aros with eyes that protrude more or what people call dragon eyes, never develop drop eyes. This should not be confused with bilateral exophthalmos, which would mean osmoregulatory failure, eg kidney failure. You would expect dropsy with that as well.

While genetics would determine the way the eyes are set. The environment exacerbates the problem. Tanks with high human traffic, esp with children playing on the floor in front of the tank. These aros seem to be more proned to drop eyes. I think it's a multifactorial problem, but diet is definitely not one of them.

[irwini]

most of e time droop symptons only happened to a eye. my aro got slightly droop eye on e right eye. i never overfeed, y still got tis problem??

[Aroboy II]

Bare tanks cause eye-droop due to the aro looking downwards?
Lightings too strong from the top? Any comments? Thanks.

Originally Posted by Aroboy II

Bare tanks cause eye-droop due to the aro looking downwards?
Lightings too strong from the top? Any comments? Thanks.

There is such possibility too. You are 2nd for environment-caused-droop-eye.
Can also call it drop-eye.

[irwini]

Originally Posted by zihao

There are many possibility. What do you think it could be from the list?

i tink it is most likely genetics n environment.
couldnt be too much fatty food, cause i always starve my aro. feedin 3 times a week wif e min food requirement for e aro