DEADLY skinny flower ray VIDEO.. HELP if u can...

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michael

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so here is the flower I was talking about showing his aggressive eating habits, but doesn't like to take the food all the way down, weirdest thing. So far he has had blackworms and bloodworms in the tank at all times, tried ghost shrimp, silversides, market shrimp, cut up night crawlers, pellets, nothing. Will "taste" most any and all foods but wont eat it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yv77vea6cM
 
that sucks! have you done the metro yet?

think long and hard about what assumptions you may be making, ie, pH, hardness, other parameters, temp. Sometimes, IME, my assumptions from having experience are where my mistakes lie, if you know what I mean.


Also, try guppies or tuffies, that has worked form me before.
 
high water temp , some salt in there , red frozen larves(defrost bofore feeding ) they wil eat that ..

then mix i it with other food.
 
nice flower u got there michael!
when turn to flower you might want to listen to what tank125 already said,
also maybe you want to reconsider about your sand too... just my opinion ;)
 
Is it wild caught? Perhaps there is a hook stuck in it?
 
you lost a flower a while back too?

bad luck with the flowers
 
It's weird that he's tasting and not eatting... I'm thinking that Gr8 might have a point here!

IME Usually if rays are sifting through the sand like that they will eat just about anything they come across, I've only had one ray that was difficult to get to eat but she wouldn't even start to sift... once she did it was all good and she ate right away.
 
ok so I keep temp at 85F with blackworms and blood worms(red larvae) in there at all times. it is a wild caught ray so it could be a hook buy... the ray is also extremely small, do they still use hook and line for a 4" ray?

Torres- Why reconsider the sand? It is natural amazon river sand and I thought it would be better and less stress on the fish with a more natural environment...

Reverse- yeah i lost a fresh import flower recently, this one was my second chance and seems better than the first and if it wasn't so skinny now, with the activity it shows I wouldn't even be concerned but it is deadly skinny.. Before these last 2, I have owned 6 other flowers and never lost a one.. Actually out of 40+ rays I have owned over the last 6 years this last flower was my first loss ever with rays
 
warm dark tank.... id switch it to bare bottom and cover it with a towel/blanket to keep it extra dark.... lots of live black worms.... have you tried a metro or prazi dose yet???
 
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