last night, i was sitting in front of my tank observing all my fishes.
i noticed that my aro is really deformed...crooked.... he is growing
fast but crooked......here it is..

that sucks paul......my knowledge on aro diseases is rather limited but it really doesnt look good. hope things work out for you and you figure out whats wrong with him.

actually, when my wife brought it home, i noticed that something is wrong with
the shape of the body but since it was still small then, i didn't pay too much
attention...but this night...while sitting there with beer in hand... i did
notice it and took my camera to take snap shot...indeed...it is crooked...
more than 12 inches crooked aro... i take it as
unique...not with sickness since it grows fast too...

awww thats no good. i wonder if it will grow to maturity like that?

Reminds me of a cat we used to have when I was a kid. His tail got caught in a door when he was a kitten, and it made two 90º bends in his tail at the end.

I say if he gets along okay, then he should be fine. Hopefully nothing is internally messed up and he lives a nice, long, dinner-table-free life.

Win wrote:

he had double the size, thus i believe it is genetic... i will still keep him.
if he grows and crooked up to 90 degrees...that would be cool

Jenni wrote:

ha ha ha... i haven't tried yet any aro in my dining table...don't worry Jenni,
i wouldn't do that for my wife's aro

not yet anyways huh? it has alot more growing to do! lol immagine fully grown silver arowana's fillets??? it would be 6 feet or more if you put them end to end lol lots of fish!

Win wrote:

hey Win...my imagination haven't reach that far...but for the arapaima...
my mind is playing the skewers full of its fillet

couldn't it be a healed broken back?

until you took the photo i'll bet you were thinking that beer was good stuff
i am sure if anything TO serious the other fish would have had a go at it by now

I have searched through some stuff i got on arowana, here is all I found.

SPINAL CURVATURE - This is most commonly seen in Silver and Black Arowana. The causes are most often malnutrition when the fish is young or injury. Since the problem usually starts when the specimen fish is young a full recovery is virtually impossible. Carefully check your fish before purchasing. If you do find yourself with one and a decent environment is provided, it will rarely die from this deformity.

sorry Paul, at least if you don't mind it too much its not so bad. if you do mind at least you have grown a decent sized meal. lol.

Paul wrote:


Maybe you accidentally spilled some beer in your camera and you and your camera got drunk. Does it still look like that in the morning?
Does he have a name yet? If not, why don't you call him "Boomerang"?

All kiddings aside, that's really unusual.. Got no experience keeping Aro's but that's one of a kind.