Went to a petstore in MD on thursday and they had a huuuuge male marble that was BEAUTIFUL but very near its death bed. a customer had returned the ray a few months back and it had been sitting int he petstore for months. the store grossly underfed the ray do to lack of knowledge. when i asked them what he ate they told me "he is a pig, eats anything!"
so i started throwing food in the tank and he pounced on it all but ate non. refused massivore, krill, shrimp, and silversides. then i threw in some earthworms and ghost shrimp and he did in fact pound that.
well to keep the ray from dying at their mercy, i bought it and took it home to my 75gal QT tank. he is in there now and eating some live canadian night crawlers but by no means is he filling up on them. he is thin as can be and you can see about 3/8" of pelvic bones! he also has a bunch of little white cottony tufts under his disc. i have never encountered this on a ray before but my best 2 guesses are that he is so nutritionally deficient that his immune system is depleted and he has sores assiociate with that OR that he has had some minor cuts/scrapes and they just havnt healed because of a lack of food.
i started hitting him with prazi thursday night night and he is still eating. anyone know what those white tufts are?
anyone have any experience with large adults that are super emaciated? how long before they start to develop the typical appetitie associated with healthy rays?
here is a photo of him for all to see. i'd say he was 2 weeks away from death at that pet store! lucky him and lucky me!! and becuase i know ill get this question... he is about 15" huuuuuge marble with huuuuuuuge calspers. cant wait to get him fixed up and into my 700!
so i started throwing food in the tank and he pounced on it all but ate non. refused massivore, krill, shrimp, and silversides. then i threw in some earthworms and ghost shrimp and he did in fact pound that.
well to keep the ray from dying at their mercy, i bought it and took it home to my 75gal QT tank. he is in there now and eating some live canadian night crawlers but by no means is he filling up on them. he is thin as can be and you can see about 3/8" of pelvic bones! he also has a bunch of little white cottony tufts under his disc. i have never encountered this on a ray before but my best 2 guesses are that he is so nutritionally deficient that his immune system is depleted and he has sores assiociate with that OR that he has had some minor cuts/scrapes and they just havnt healed because of a lack of food.
i started hitting him with prazi thursday night night and he is still eating. anyone know what those white tufts are?
anyone have any experience with large adults that are super emaciated? how long before they start to develop the typical appetitie associated with healthy rays?
here is a photo of him for all to see. i'd say he was 2 weeks away from death at that pet store! lucky him and lucky me!! and becuase i know ill get this question... he is about 15" huuuuuge marble with huuuuuuuge calspers. cant wait to get him fixed up and into my 700!