Types of Asian Arowana

Red-Tail Golden Arowanas/ Crossback Golden Arowanas/ Red Arowanas/ Green

Arowanas

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 Asian Arowanas

Asian Arowanas are found in South East Asia region. They can grow up to 36" in
wild but usuall grow only to 24" in captivity. It is an endangered species and hence
illegal to import or even own one in some countries. Fortunately captive breed F2
Asian Arowanas are now available and importation of captive breed arowanas is
now permitted in some countries.

Red-Tail Golden Arowanas

This is found in Pekanbaru of Indonesia. The scales are copper-gold in color with
some purplish shine. The back of the fish are dark in color, ranging grey, brown to
black. The tail color have 1/3 to 2/3 divisions, the top 1/3 are dark in color and the
bottom 2/3 have purplish-red to brownish-red color. The dorsal(back) fin and the
anac(near the anus) fin color follow the 1/3 and 2/3 of the tail color respectively.
 Crossback Golden Arowanas

This is found in Malaysia and sometime called Malayan Bonytongue. It has golden
scales to the fourth column and pinkish abdomen when young. When the fish grow
up, the golden scales willl escalate to the fifth column(hence cross-back) and the
pink abodomen disappear. The scales may have different basecolor such as gold,
silver or blue. Blue being the rarest. The scales can also divided into thin or thick
golden frame. Thin frame scales bluebase crossback gold are one of the most
demanded arowana and hence often the most expensive.
 Red Arowanas

Red Arowana is found in Kalimantan and Sumatra of Indonesia. They can be

divided into 1st grade red and 2nd grade red. 1st grade red can have different
intensity of color ranging from yellow to orange to red to blood-red and chilli-red.
The higher intensity red is more desirable and often demand very high price. It is
often difficult to diffferentiate 1st grade red from 2nd grade red when the fish is
young.

Young 1st grade red's tail and anac fin have intense red color and their scales are
shiny gold in color with some green at the base. Young 2nd grade red has orange
fins and the scales color are no obvious and often whitish silver. When the fish
grows, in 1st grade red, the color of the fins remains red, their scales and the gill
cover will develop its color. Ther type of color it will developed into depends on
which type of 1st grade red you have. On the other hand, the adult 2nd grade red
will only have pinkish or orange colored fins, thier scales and gill color will only
developed pink or orange color.
 Green Arowanas

Green Arowana is found in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. The scales are not
bright and often tranlucent with some grey or green color. The color is even
throughtout the body(ie no dark-top). The tail can be grey, purplish-grey or green in
color. This fish is generally shorter then its Asian relatives.This is the most
affordable asian arowana.

Others
The examples of arowanas given above are only some of the more well known
arowanas. With crossbreeding, many new strains of arowanas are developed(eg.
Redtail blue scales arowanas). The development of new strains are still in early
stages and therefore the fish are not readily available yet. Maybe the will be in
future.