When I went down stares to feed my stingrays today my reticula was dead and my guyana ray was in a deathcurl 
An hour ago the guyana ray had died.
I did a large waterchange yesturday, about 60% and my water paraameters check out at 0 ammonia, 0 Nitrite and 10-20 nitrate with a PH of 6.5. (Its always that low).
I had a hard time with my reticula getting him to eat gorcery store shrimp, he would nibble on it alot but then spit it out. About a week ago he stopped eating black worms all together and he wasnt that fat in the first place so I think he starved or had an internal parasite.
The guyana ray developed a bad case of tail rot which claimed 1/3 of his tail before I could stop it. I didnt want to use meds on the whole tank so I moved him to a 30 gallon and tried to medicate the tail rot there with melefix for a week and then pimafix for a week. I know meds are bad for rays but I didnt know what to do, he had stopped eating and was already skinny. Anyways his tail rot had stopped progressing and seemed to be healing so reintroduced him to the 180 gallon a week ago. Although I saw no signs of damage but I expect the meds had done their damage. He was eating in the ray tank 2 days before he died.
I beleive both of the deaths to be moslty coincidental that they happened on the same day and I think that the added stress of a water change sent them both over the edge.
Now my sopposed Histrix has a problem to. He is the most aggressive ray about eating in the tank but on his disk by his tail it has started to turn pale about 1/4 in into the disk. he is acting normal and everything its just that problem.
I have learned my lesson about buying cheap rays though. If my histrix end up dieing also I am going to be making an order to DW or miles for a motoro or sell my soul for a leo.
An hour ago the guyana ray had died.
I did a large waterchange yesturday, about 60% and my water paraameters check out at 0 ammonia, 0 Nitrite and 10-20 nitrate with a PH of 6.5. (Its always that low).
I had a hard time with my reticula getting him to eat gorcery store shrimp, he would nibble on it alot but then spit it out. About a week ago he stopped eating black worms all together and he wasnt that fat in the first place so I think he starved or had an internal parasite.
The guyana ray developed a bad case of tail rot which claimed 1/3 of his tail before I could stop it. I didnt want to use meds on the whole tank so I moved him to a 30 gallon and tried to medicate the tail rot there with melefix for a week and then pimafix for a week. I know meds are bad for rays but I didnt know what to do, he had stopped eating and was already skinny. Anyways his tail rot had stopped progressing and seemed to be healing so reintroduced him to the 180 gallon a week ago. Although I saw no signs of damage but I expect the meds had done their damage. He was eating in the ray tank 2 days before he died.
I beleive both of the deaths to be moslty coincidental that they happened on the same day and I think that the added stress of a water change sent them both over the edge.
Now my sopposed Histrix has a problem to. He is the most aggressive ray about eating in the tank but on his disk by his tail it has started to turn pale about 1/4 in into the disk. he is acting normal and everything its just that problem.
I have learned my lesson about buying cheap rays though. If my histrix end up dieing also I am going to be making an order to DW or miles for a motoro or sell my soul for a leo.
