Today's video. I'm sharing with you guys
Something that's very difficult for me to talk about some of you guys know the story my arowana jumping which Era wanted to do
But how he fell and the course of events that took place next severely injured him
for the first 12 hours
I monitored within him within the aquarium
He was breathing fine
but clearly he had damaged his swim bladder the swim bladder is what keeps the fish's buoyancy in the aquarium and
His was damaged to the point that he couldn't control it anymore. He was upside down at the bottom of the aquarium
giving him some time to potentially recover was a good idea a lot of the times these big fish can hurt themselves
or stun themselves and recover within a few hours
That didn't happen with him so the next day I built him a floating tank this would relieve the pressure off of his swim bladder
This helps him a little bit more he became more stable in the tank and his breathing patterns didn't get worse
But they stayed consistent the Following Day I
Realized I have to take further action you see I noticed that his swim bladder on one side
Was causing him to kind of float up in a weird way and almost bend his body
Since he couldn't control. How much air was in it. I relieved the pressure myself
With some syringes, this is a very common procedure and as long as you know how to locate the swim bladder
especially in an Asian, Arowana, which is so large
It's completely safe and very commonplace to do this corrected his floating
He it didn't correct him from floating upside down, but he now floated
perfectly even in the water I decided to take further action and
treat him for any sort of constipation
to keep his you know his intestines moving as
Well as to treat any internal swelling and a good option for that that's really safe is
To put him in a magnesium sulfate dip
Lasting firm anywheres from 5 minutes that's one minutes Magnesium sulfate is root is referred to as Epson salt
While it's not a salt like sodium chloride like your regular salt it is a naturally occurring
Mineral
compound in fact
Recovered from I believe it's taken from Epson England. That's where it gets its name
I did a five minute dip last night holding him in and he looked like
Okay, of course this is an injury that could take weeks if not months to recover from so I'm in no rush
However, I was going to do a dip every day
Extending the dip and increasing the dosage as I went unfortunately
the damage was too great
and he Didn't make it I came in this afternoon where this morning
and
he's passed away unresponsive
and he's a bit stiff. So I suspect this happened late last night
I know I've taken the correct steps and precautions to try to save him
and you know I don't feel like I could have done anything else
At the end of the day this is a loss, we're going to have to deal with
A guess talking to you guys is making it a little easier on me
And I appreciate all of the support you guys have given me over the past few days absolutely
inspiring and astounding to see how many people care for an individual fish
It is summertime here in Canada though
the ground isn't Frozen
I will be able to bury him
so
the last Few Days
the last couple of days I've felt this overwhelming sense of
Your loneliness you know for Kinda has so many eyes on him you wouldn't believe how lonely I felt
And I didn't even want to go out into the gallery so I haven't gotten a whole lot done out there
I Thought it was something else. I was invited been bugging me, but I realized that I'm gonna Lose my little buddy.
Know a lot of people have been asking what his name is or
You know I should have gave him a name. He's had a name
I always just thought it was silly to
give fish names
But he's always had a name and it's buddy because he's always been my buddy
so he'll
Be here under the tree in my yard
marked with these stones
I'll make it prettier one. I'm more in the mood
in the end
I hope to celebrate
Buddy's lifetime
and
In order to do that things must keep moving forward out here in the gallery