Arowana

The arowana (アロワナ, arowana) is a freshwater fish in the introduced in. It is tied with the arapaima as the second-most valuable freshwater fish in the, selling for 10,000 Bells, and it is beaten only by the dorado and the stringfish, which each sell for 15,000 Bells.

A variant of the arowana, the ivory arowana, appears exclusively in as an event fish.

In
In, an arowana appears as part of the default furniture layout for Quillson.

In
Just like, includes an arowana as Quillson's default furniture layout.

Donating to the museum
As with all fish caught in the, the arowana can be donated to the museum in each game by talking to Blathers, who also will give some information on it.

In
Blathers will say this upon donation:

In
Blathers will accept the donation willingly. His words are as follows:

It appears in the middle tank in the aquarium.

In
It appears in the tank on the right in the aquarium.

In
An information board in the aquarium will display this description of the arowana:

In
The arowana can be found in the jungle tank in the far right of the first exhibit room with the saddled bichir and arapaima.

Fishing Tourney
During a Fishing Tourney, when given an arowana, Chip will say the following dialogue.

Real-world information
Arowanas, also known as aruanas or arawanas, are a freshwater fish of the family Osteoglossidae, sometimes known as "bonytongues". They can obtain oxygen from the air by sucking it into their swim bladder, which is lined with capillaries akin to lung tissue. In aquariums, Arowanas tend to school in groups of five to eight; any fewer may show an excess of dominance and aggression. Osteoglossids are basal (primitive) fish from the lower Tertiary and are placed in the actinopterygiid order Osteoglossiformes. There are ten described living species: three from South America, one from Africa, four from Asia, and the remaining two from Australia. Osteoglossidae is the only exclusively freshwater fish family found on both sides of the Wallace Line. This may be explained by the fact that Asian arowanas (S. formosus) diverged from the Australian Scleropages, S. jardinii and S. leichardti, about 140 million years ago, making it likely that Asian arowanas were carried to Asia on the Indian subcontinent.

Names in other languages
Arowana