Blood coming out of gills?

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I had recentlymoved my ray from one tank to another. Moved with 2 other rays to a tank with rays already in it. All other rays were fine and eating well. I noticed yesterday the edge of disc was very light in color treated with melafix. Today I came home and thought she was dead when I went remove from tank found blood all over net and she took a breath I quickly saw blood was coming out of gills. I put her down because I thought it was the right thing to do. My question is what caused bleeding and should I do anything to protect others. Water is good nitrates at a constant 35ppm and was eating up to 3 days ago
Any help is appreciated
 
Did she get stabbed by one of the other rays?
 
Sounds like scary and painful ordeal? Like Spotfin said, do you see any wounds?
I hope she pulls through.
 
All other stingers are intact with covers and just did 35% wc it actually looks like skin was peeling back on outside of disc.
 
melafix causes low oxygen levels due to its foam/surface tension causing characteristics. so that may be an issue regarding the blood loss. If the individual ray was stressed from the move the corresponding blood loss may have been compounded by the melafix.
 
How did you move her into the tank? What did you use to take her out of the first tank? Perhaps she was injured in the move. Are the other rays new? You mention they still have covers on their stingers.
 
Raymann88 said:
How did you move her into the tank? What did you use to take her out of the first tank? Perhaps she was injured in the move. Are the other rays new? You mention they still have covers on their stingers.
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Moved in a deep rubber net I use on much larger rays but didn't see any issue with other two hystrix moved the same way. As for covers I'm not talking about plastic but skin also newest ray is 8 months in my tank they were moved from. I would take water and tank out of possibilities because rays in both are and where healthy and eating.
 
sometimes rays when agressive will go for the "Gill" area or spericals. They will bite and could cause damage.
 
maybe it ingested or but on somethjng sharp.

extremely rare I know... but check your substrate for anything sharp

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