Fungus on tail
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Not sure if it is ray safe (don't see why it would not be) but I have used Melafix for fungal infections and it worked for me.
fungus, or are the leo's just chewing on its tail? that is what it looks to me.
I would not add anything, just do your normal water changes and/or separate the one doing the chewing.
I would not add anything, just do your normal water changes and/or separate the one doing the chewing.
keepinfish;5104475; said:
No leos in that tank, only two small histrix rays... Anyway i think you are right about the chewing.
I don`t understand how i have failed to see this... - but i am now shure the reason for this behavior is hunger.
They have been moved from a tank where the water temperature was 77f, to a bigger tank where the temperature is 82f. And i have actually feed them a bit less than i did when they was in the previous tank... Thinking about how the metabolic rate increases in warmer water - no wonder they get hungry and begin to chew on each other...
I have started to give them more food now, and i am shure that will do the trick
I had fungus develop on my juvenile motoro ray's tail previously. The fungus started right at the sting, and first spread downwards to the tip of the tail before spreading upwards towards the disc.
I treated first with Salt (didn't work) then Melafix (didn't work) then with Furan-2, which partially worked. What happened was the fungus on the disc and upper 1/2 of the tail subsided...but then the rest of the tail from the sting (where the fungus first originated) fell off!
So now my poor stingray has 1/2 a tail with no sting, and showing no signs of growing it back!
I treated first with Salt (didn't work) then Melafix (didn't work) then with Furan-2, which partially worked. What happened was the fungus on the disc and upper 1/2 of the tail subsided...but then the rest of the tail from the sting (where the fungus first originated) fell off!
So now my poor stingray has 1/2 a tail with no sting, and showing no signs of growing it back!