stingray with digestion problems?

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hollywood69

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has anyone had this before, how can you help it. i just noticed my male retic tis morn and this afternoon pass on food! i just changed water yester as in my routine water change. he still has a full look, just not eating and not really active. i need stingray exlax!! or advice. i just added salt btw, and i've owned this ray for 5 years he's never had any problems
 
That's strange indeed....Do you use straight tap water when you do water changes?
 
yea for str8 tap, public source. the other rays are fine, new yepezi and female retic. the male is about 8" maybe 8 1/2" ive seen this before when i had a marbled motoro 5 years ago (before i got these retics) full belly (or back you know what i mean) and didn't eat, just laid there waving his disc. with the motoro, i believe it was a live goldfish. when he did pass his food, whole goldfish came out! this retic, as said before has a full back as if eaten but wont eat! i changed water and added the right amount of salt. i dont think i can do much more, i dont want to endanger the other 2 rays. also my male only ate live earthworms. so who knows?
 
How often do you feed the ray? I had an instance of that with a motoro a number of years back. I held off on feedings for a little while and eventually it went back to normal. You may be overfeeding to a degree.
 
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