Hi guys some of you may have been reading some previous threads about my henlei.All is good i am posting a before picture and after picture.This particular male was 5 1/2" when i got him and very thin & weak.He was starting the death curl and against what most of you recommended i gave him a salinity shock or a salt bath for about 15 minutes.Within 12 hours of this salt bath he was eating everything in his path.Now he is pushing 7" in only little over a month now.He in my experience was a for sure death, but defied expectations and is now the biggest of the 4 pups.He is the friendlest of rays now.He will hand feed ,let me pick him up he just doesnt care and best of all he eats about 5-6 chopped up store grade shrimp and a few pellets a day.
I started to doubt that this treatment worked but i again got very brave and tested in on another ray that was in very bad shape and didnt eat for over 2 weeks.This ray was in good shape when recieved unlike the henlei she wasnt thin and beat up.The only thing i couldnt get it to eat.It started to get very thin and things were not good so i repeated this process only i did not treat the tank with salt only the ray in the form of a salt bath or salinity shock for about 15 minutes.Aside from all of this the ray didnt eat since it was in thialand so probably over 3 weeks no food what so ever.After the salt bath i released the ray back into the main tank.This time the feeding wasnt instant it took about day and a half and she was eating pellets only.She wouldnt except earthworms or shrimp.Now this ray eats 8 shrimp at least and 10-15 pellets a day and is very fat.
I didnt start this thread to get criticized but to maybe get some insight from experts and maybe on what happened.These rays were not just going through the process of adjusting they were going to die and i thought that this process would have stressed them out but it infact did the opposite and better.
I started to doubt that this treatment worked but i again got very brave and tested in on another ray that was in very bad shape and didnt eat for over 2 weeks.This ray was in good shape when recieved unlike the henlei she wasnt thin and beat up.The only thing i couldnt get it to eat.It started to get very thin and things were not good so i repeated this process only i did not treat the tank with salt only the ray in the form of a salt bath or salinity shock for about 15 minutes.Aside from all of this the ray didnt eat since it was in thialand so probably over 3 weeks no food what so ever.After the salt bath i released the ray back into the main tank.This time the feeding wasnt instant it took about day and a half and she was eating pellets only.She wouldnt except earthworms or shrimp.Now this ray eats 8 shrimp at least and 10-15 pellets a day and is very fat.
I didnt start this thread to get criticized but to maybe get some insight from experts and maybe on what happened.These rays were not just going through the process of adjusting they were going to die and i thought that this process would have stressed them out but it infact did the opposite and better.
