So after everything that has happened to me with my rays recently and with everyone elses problems I truly believe we need to go back to the salt as a shotgun treatment when we are in doubt.
I do not mean any disrespect to dw and believe in his knowledge of rays to be the standard of anyone and I hope he does reply to this.
After reading his thread I began to question alot about what I was doing and how I was doing it which to me was a great reward to get me back to the why's of what we do and after thiking about it I still believe the benifits outway the downfalls of adding the salt.
These are purely observations of mine and second hand knowledge from articles on the web and people on the forum.
I do think we are stressing our rays in one way or another with either overcrowding,poor tank maintenance,improper capture and acclimation and whatever else we can do wrong. This in turn I think are leaving are rays open to different problems. This is where dw's thread would help prevent all this, but the truth is it happens and is going to happen in the world we live in so we need to address these problems from a point after the problem.
By the time alot of us see a problem it is to late for simple waterchanges to be the cure. This is where I think adding salt is the next best thing and seems to have cured many rays over the years on the board. It will kill bactria, relax rays, act as a laxitive, kill flagellates (which I think killed one of my rays and infected the others) and may have other positive effects that I haven't noticed. On the other hand I have not seen anyone loose a ray to salt yet.
Please post your opinions on this. Are we killing are rays or saving them with the all around salt cure?
I do not mean any disrespect to dw and believe in his knowledge of rays to be the standard of anyone and I hope he does reply to this.
After reading his thread I began to question alot about what I was doing and how I was doing it which to me was a great reward to get me back to the why's of what we do and after thiking about it I still believe the benifits outway the downfalls of adding the salt.
These are purely observations of mine and second hand knowledge from articles on the web and people on the forum.
I do think we are stressing our rays in one way or another with either overcrowding,poor tank maintenance,improper capture and acclimation and whatever else we can do wrong. This in turn I think are leaving are rays open to different problems. This is where dw's thread would help prevent all this, but the truth is it happens and is going to happen in the world we live in so we need to address these problems from a point after the problem.
By the time alot of us see a problem it is to late for simple waterchanges to be the cure. This is where I think adding salt is the next best thing and seems to have cured many rays over the years on the board. It will kill bactria, relax rays, act as a laxitive, kill flagellates (which I think killed one of my rays and infected the others) and may have other positive effects that I haven't noticed. On the other hand I have not seen anyone loose a ray to salt yet.
Please post your opinions on this. Are we killing are rays or saving them with the all around salt cure?
but im always gonna use salt....
