9 week old Marble
- Thread starter DB junkie
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FishDog;3603452; said:
None are showing. One is getting beat up bad enough I seperated her today, don't know if she's refusing to breed since she's allready prego? She's got bite marks even up by her head. 2 others have disk perimeter damage one of them is jabbing at the male whenever he approaches her. Hoping 3 but zero confirmed.
Turning out quite nice, glad she is doing well. Hope you got everything turned around
with your system.
with your system.
Thanks everyone. 
I freaked and blamed water quality. In all reality I believe the mom may have contracted internal parasites before the pups were born. She quit eating almost 3 weeks prior to giving birth and never ate more then a handfull of food over the next 2-3 weeks before passing away. Lost another female with similar symptoms. Male got same symptoms and is back to 100% after the Prazi treatment. This might explain the 2/6 being stillborn, and the other 3 not making it. Could have been water, could have been a sick mom. Not really sure. See sig...LOL
I know my water is up to par now after the drip was installed. Rays look great and activity level is wayyyy up. I think I need more room though as it seems there's still aggression issues, causing lots of stress. Getting better, but funds are not permitting the upgrades that need to be done. May end up having to shrink the population to fund upgrades.
ShadowStryder;3603570; said:
I freaked and blamed water quality. In all reality I believe the mom may have contracted internal parasites before the pups were born. She quit eating almost 3 weeks prior to giving birth and never ate more then a handfull of food over the next 2-3 weeks before passing away. Lost another female with similar symptoms. Male got same symptoms and is back to 100% after the Prazi treatment. This might explain the 2/6 being stillborn, and the other 3 not making it. Could have been water, could have been a sick mom. Not really sure. See sig...LOL
I know my water is up to par now after the drip was installed. Rays look great and activity level is wayyyy up. I think I need more room though as it seems there's still aggression issues, causing lots of stress. Getting better, but funds are not permitting the upgrades that need to be done. May end up having to shrink the population to fund upgrades.
It has been almost a year it seems since I last used prazi. Whenever i had a ray get sluggish and stop eating, prazi always seemed to pick them up in a day or two. Not saying I recommend it for all cases but does seem to liven the rays up.
My adult rays really seem to start being way more active till about 2 weeks after the treatment was done.
I was stupid and careless with feeders and didn't even think about any possible repercusions till it was wayyy too late. Stuborn Characins..... Should have never even had them on the pond system.
My growout rays have seemed to become more active the last few days and day 5 of the first Prazi treatment is tomorrow. They've been making all kinds of ruckus today chuckin rocks around. Have to seperate one of the growouts as well. Poor Zero was once the bully, now the favor's being returned and he's having a hard time adjusting. Lil guy's appetite isn't what it used to be.
Prazi is deffinetly gonna be used at my house without a second guess from now on if anything funny starts going on again.
I was stupid and careless with feeders and didn't even think about any possible repercusions till it was wayyy too late. Stuborn Characins..... Should have never even had them on the pond system.
My growout rays have seemed to become more active the last few days and day 5 of the first Prazi treatment is tomorrow. They've been making all kinds of ruckus today chuckin rocks around. Have to seperate one of the growouts as well. Poor Zero was once the bully, now the favor's being returned and he's having a hard time adjusting. Lil guy's appetite isn't what it used to be.
Prazi is deffinetly gonna be used at my house without a second guess from now on if anything funny starts going on again.
DB junkie;3603605; said:Thanks everyone.
I freaked and blamed water quality. In all reality I believe the mom may have contracted internal parasites before the pups were born. She quit eating almost 3 weeks prior to giving birth and never ate more then a handfull of food over the next 2-3 weeks before passing away. Lost another female with similar symptoms. Male got same symptoms and is back to 100% after the Prazi treatment. This might explain the 2/6 being stillborn, and the other 3 not making it. Could have been water, could have been a sick mom. Not really sure. See sig...LOL
I know my water is up to par now after the drip was installed. Rays look great and activity level is wayyyy up. I think I need more room though as it seems there's still aggression issues, causing lots of stress. Getting better, but funds are not permitting the upgrades that need to be done. May end up having to shrink the population to fund upgrades.
Know all about the funding issues, with work being so uncertain right now
I can't justify spending the $ on a pair of black rays to go with my new marbles. Hopefully this spring
Your sig is a similar to a moto I try to live by, (Never look back and No Regrets)
I didn't take any chances with my new WC Marbles, did a 10 day Prazi treatment and a
30 day quarantine even though they were eating very well the first day of arrival.
