HELP!!! Foreign Object in Arowana's Mouth

[ymmij]

Hi I have a 6 feet bare tank with a arowana, 2 rays and 2 sucker fish. Today I discovered that the arowana's mouth cannot close. Upon inspection, I realised there is something inside it's mouth. But I cannot differentiate what it is.

There is basically nothing inside the tank that the arowana can "eat" and get stuck inside the mouth. It looks like a lollipop stick, there is no way a stick as such could get into my tank. I suspect it could be bone.

I feed my arowana pellets and market prawns. The last time I fed market prawn was few days back.

I tried to reach for my arowana but it refused to go near me.

What should I do? How can I get help to remove the foreign object?

Thanks in advance.

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[chern]

do you by any chance keep stingray in the same tank?

[ymmij]

Originally Posted by chern

do you by any chance keep stingray in the same tank?

yes 2 rays. i have check their tails and the stings are still intact.

[chucklee]

Hi. Since you keep ray. Does any of your ray drop or shed its spike?

[ymmij]

Originally Posted by chucklee

Hi. Since you keep ray. Does any of your ray drop or shed its spike?

i have never seen the rays dropping their spikes. as of now, i see their spikes as they are.

[Zhuoyuting]

It spikes bro.
Trans more it, pluck it out

[jiro85]

From the pictures, the foreign object looks like a ray sting.
Bag the arowana using prawn bag and transmore the fella to remove the sting.

[ymmij]

Thanks for the replies.

Yes it is confirmed the spike of a ray though I do not know how it was present in the first place as my 2 rays have spikes on them currently.

I removed the spike late last night already.

Will post the photos soon.

[chern]

Before the old spike from the ray drops, the new ones would be present already! If I'm not wrong haha

[llewellyn]

Which also means there is a likelihood of the same thing happening everytime ypur rays shed its spike....
not a good thing.