I work at an LFS, last friday we took in a shipment of fish, and I special ordered a 6" female motoro for my male. I decided to put the ray in a 55g quarantine at work, because I spend more time there than at home and I can look more after it, see how it's doing.
When she arrived on friday she had fungus in her tail and the barb was broken (probably normal after a long flight).
On friday, saturday, sunday and today the last thing I do before leaving work is putting 900g of salt in the tank and the first thing I do in the morning is doing 70-80% Water change. And today I put 8g of Néomycine (antibiotic) in the tank for like 5 hours and then did a large w/c. The fungus seems to be disappearing after I put the antibiotics in the tank.
The rays "skin" (or what to call it??) is pale on the edges of the disc, probably just had a bacterial infection and the fungus came due to that.
But the ray isn't eating, it has a rather fat tail so I haven't been worrying too much, but now it's been a while, I've offered shrimps, brineshrimp, and a mix of artemia and krill.. I'm trying earthworms tomorrow.
Any advice on this situation would be of great help.
Also: Since the fungus is almost gone, should I maybe just bring her home and put her in a 125g with my male, do you think I will have better luck with that?
When she arrived on friday she had fungus in her tail and the barb was broken (probably normal after a long flight).
On friday, saturday, sunday and today the last thing I do before leaving work is putting 900g of salt in the tank and the first thing I do in the morning is doing 70-80% Water change. And today I put 8g of Néomycine (antibiotic) in the tank for like 5 hours and then did a large w/c. The fungus seems to be disappearing after I put the antibiotics in the tank.
The rays "skin" (or what to call it??) is pale on the edges of the disc, probably just had a bacterial infection and the fungus came due to that.
But the ray isn't eating, it has a rather fat tail so I haven't been worrying too much, but now it's been a while, I've offered shrimps, brineshrimp, and a mix of artemia and krill.. I'm trying earthworms tomorrow.
Any advice on this situation would be of great help.
Also: Since the fungus is almost gone, should I maybe just bring her home and put her in a 125g with my male, do you think I will have better luck with that?