I've been into serious fish keeping for 5 years or so and I just realized that most of my deaths have been caused by my feeding fish food that isn't fresh.
1. My Green Arowana, I fed dead SW. It died shortly.
2. My RTG Arowana, I fed it feeders. It got anchor worms, I tried to treat and combined treatments leading to its death.
For my stingrays, most of the time, I feed it thawed food. But there are times, I let a cupful thaw out in the ref and feed it within 24-48 hours. Last week though, I went away for a business trip and came back and fed them the fish fillet that I left in the ref, not realizing that it has been a week or so already.
Now, my 3 stingrays (11", 7", 6") are kinda sick. The worst is the smallest guy 6" because he ate the most. He was floating on the surface this morning, his disc also has amonia-burn-like things on it.
I took a video, will upload later. Hope it makes it.
Fish keeping Lesson:
Only feed FRESH food.
And don't be stupid.
Can ray experts please also advise what to do aside from monster water changes and fasting?
1. My Green Arowana, I fed dead SW. It died shortly.
2. My RTG Arowana, I fed it feeders. It got anchor worms, I tried to treat and combined treatments leading to its death.
For my stingrays, most of the time, I feed it thawed food. But there are times, I let a cupful thaw out in the ref and feed it within 24-48 hours. Last week though, I went away for a business trip and came back and fed them the fish fillet that I left in the ref, not realizing that it has been a week or so already.
Now, my 3 stingrays (11", 7", 6") are kinda sick. The worst is the smallest guy 6" because he ate the most. He was floating on the surface this morning, his disc also has amonia-burn-like things on it.
I took a video, will upload later. Hope it makes it.
Fish keeping Lesson:
Only feed FRESH food.
And don't be stupid.
Can ray experts please also advise what to do aside from monster water changes and fasting?