Death Curl... Myth or Reality???

[Zealous]

A lot of people saying when your ray is begining curl a bit it, start praying already.
But I have seen some rays exhibiting these curling but still thriving and living quite healthy...
How can we prevent or cure this?
Is this a manerism?
Any comments are welcome...

 

[ShadowStryder]

Death Curl starts at the back of disk by the tail and works its way around to the front. Providing it lives that long.
When lifting the front of the disk as in your pic is in a lot of cases a ray smelling food.

 

[T1KARMANN]

thats not death curl in the pic

 

[Gshock]

Like T1 said, thats not even death curl. You usually cant stop it once it begins, but it does take quite a bit to push rays to that state.

 

[Zealous]

Death Curl starts at the back of disk by the tail and works its way around to the front. Providing it lives that long.
When lifting the front of the disk as in your pic is in a lot of cases a ray smelling food.

\Thanks sir, but it also curls from disk near the tail.
Is that curable? Thanks!

 

[soupa2]

when it curls it's does not come back down.. usually when rays move they have to curl their disc a little to creat current to move.. when death curl happens the back side of the disc will curl first and your ray shouldn't have ate for couple of day before this happens..

 

[ShadowStryder]

Also how much current do you have in your system. Heavy water flow can cause the back of disc to lift.

 

[vamptrev]

pic dosnt look like death curl

i saved a pup that started to curl once with salt

 

[dave_oddballs]

a couple of months back, after doing a 30% wate change, the ammonia in my tank shot up, it was sky high, i can only assume it was something to do with the tap water, the water in my tank has always been spot on from the start.
anyway, in the tank is a 14" male marble motoro, and an 11"light spot motoro female, the male came through fine but the female started with death curl, it got almost all the way round the disk and she couldn't swim properly, every time she tried she went all over the tank and even upside down.
i proceeded to do daily water changes of 50%, which in turn caused an algae bloom, which was less of a problem then the ammonia. needless to say, after about 2 weeks of a lot of worrying, and thinking the female was almost certainly going to die, the disc went back down and now she is perfect like before anything happened.
so, just thought id add, it is possible for a ray to come back from deaths door, and her disc is perfectly flat again now, and it was really bad at one point.

Dave.

 

[Zealous]

a couple of months back, after doing a 30% wate change, the ammonia in my tank shot up, it was sky high, i can only assume it was something to do with the tap water, the water in my tank has always been spot on from the start.
anyway, in the tank is a 14" male marble motoro, and an 11"light spot motoro female, the male came through fine but the female started with death curl, it got almost all the way round the disk and she couldn't swim properly, every time she tried she went all over the tank and even upside down.
i proceeded to do daily water changes of 50%, which in turn caused an algae bloom, which was less of a problem then the ammonia. needless to say, after about 2 weeks of a lot of worrying, and thinking the female was almost certainly going to die, the disc went back down and now she is perfect like before anything happened.
so, just thought id add, it is possible for a ray to come back from deaths door, and her disc is perfectly flat again now, and it was really bad at one point.

Dave.

That's very good to hear bro... How are they doing now?

I just would like to add some pics... Can this be consider as dc?