Having trouble with your ray? Ray death recently?

[jwong1024]

1. How often do you do water changes? once or twice a week

2. What percentage do you change? 30-35%

3. What size is your tank? 125gl

4. What is your stock? aro, pleco, 3 severums, 2 retic 1 motoro

5. What is your filtration? 3 emperor 400 and 2 fluval 405

6. What do you feed your rays? nightcrawlers mainly, shrimp and pellets if they take them

7. How often do you feed your rays? once a day at night, and an additional feeding after WC as a treat

8. How long have you maintained this schedule? as long as I have had them

9. Barebottom or Sand? PFS, 100lbs in 72inX18in

10. How long before your ray stopped eating and its death? I had 3 hystrix died, 2 died 2 days after and 1 died 10 days after.

11. Did you add salt for treatment? yes roughly 1 to 1 1/2lbs per 100gl



13. Did you transfer the sick ray? No ray died overnight, ate worms night before, dead in the morning or afternnoon.

14. WC, vendor, CB? WC hystrix rays from a vendor. that were shipped overnight to me.

 

[fcamargo6thave]

my motoro recently died

1. How often do you do water changes? once a week

2. What percentage do you change? 40%

3. What size is your tank? 125 Gal

4. What is your stock? 2 CK's, RTC x TSN, Parron Shark

5. What is your filtration? 2 aquaclear 110

6. What do you feed your rays? nightcrawlers, silversides

7. How often do you feed your rays? once a day

8. How long have you maintained this schedule? 3 months

9. Barebottom or Sand? Sand

10. How long before your ray stopped eating and its death? 1 night

11. Did you add salt for treatment? yes

12. What other meds did you use? none

13. Did you transfer the sick ray? no

14. What other info do you think might be helpful?

15. Where was your ray from? Vendor? CB? Wild Caught? vendor

 

[Deaths Sting]

my male Motoro died about 2 months ago

1. How often do you do water changes? 1/week

2. What percentage do you change? 40%

3. What size is your tank? 120 gallons

4. What is your stock? 2 8'' senegalus and 1 8'' Palmas. 1 7'' female motoro

5. What is your filtration? FX5 and Eheim 2028

6. What do you feed your rays? 75% pellets, 10% prawn, 10% mysis shrimp, 5% earthworms

7. How often do you feed your rays? twice a day

8. How long have you maintained this schedule? feeding schedule for the past 3 months or so.. maintenance schedule forever..

9. Barebottom or Sand? 3M color quartz S grade. approximately 3/4- 1'' deep, covers 75% of the tank

10. How long before your ray stopped eating and its death? about 36 hours

11. Did you add salt for treatment? no

12. What other meds did you use? none

13. Did you transfer the sick ray? no

14. What other info do you think might be helpful? i was attempting to feed the rays and bichirs convict fry which i had bred myself..i used tap water that had 0 GH or KH.

15. Where was your ray from? Vendor? CB? Wild Caught? most likely WC, i cant prove that it was...

i use crushed coral now to help raise my KH which in return raises/stabilizes my PH. my female motoro and 3 bichirs have never been better..

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

ttt

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

ttt

 

[jackdempsey]

The ray I lost was captive bred. WCs were introduced a month ago.

1) Minimum 4 times a week. Average 5.
2) 20-30% during week, half on weekend
3)Around 1K pond (liner)
4) 4 Odoe, 1 Gar, 1 Rhaph, 1 Poly, 12 rays (average a foot)
5) 80 GPM Wet/dry
6) Mainly smelt and shrimp
7) 6 times a week for adults, 2 times daily for juvies
8) Last summer
9) Barebottom
10) 72 hours
11) Yes 3 lbs/100
12) Binox
13) YES to tank but same system
14) Binox appeared to have helped my situation.

Happened fast, slime coat thickened, less active, greyish tinge to her, eyes cloudy, "coughing", trying to bury,disk began erroding around back edge which was being held off ground, curled, died. I believe larger rays may have contributed stress. Became less active so I isolated her, seemed OK, added a few new fish, refused food shortly after.

sorry about ur loss man

 

[lincolngoh]

1. How often do you do water changes?
Twice a week

2. What percentage do you change?
70%

3. What size is your tank?
6-8 footers.

4. What is your stock?
5 adults, 4 pups, 10 mid sized rays

5. What is your filtration?
Slum, Sponge, canister

6. What do you feed your rays?
Squid, Fish Fillet, Prawns

7. How often do you feed your rays?
2-3 times a day

8. How long have you maintained this schedule?
5 years

9. Barebottom or Sand?
Both

10. How long before your ray stopped eating and its death?
2 weeks - After birth.

11. Did you add salt for treatment?
No

12. What other meds did you use?
Melafix, Primafix

13. Did you transfer the sick ray?
No

14. What other info do you think might be helpful?
Be careful of meds, cure the ray with clean water.

15. Where was your ray from? Vendor? CB? Wild Caught?
CB

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Lin - Any thoughts on the massive water changes and meds inducing a stress related death on such a young pup?

 

[LBathory]

1. How often do you do water changes?
once a week

2. What percentage do you change?
50%

3. What size is your tank?
48x18x24 (I know it's small, but temporary)

4. What is your stock?
2 indo dats, 1 tig, 4 bp's, 1 royal pleco.

5. What is your filtration?
fx5

6. What do you feed your rays?
massivore and the occasional night crawler

7. How often do you feed your rays?
once a day, twice on weekends

8. How long have you maintained this schedule?
2 months

9. Barebottom or Sand?
fine gravel

10. How long before your ray stopped eating and its death?
an hour, maybe less.

11. Did you add salt for treatment?
no

12. What other meds did you use?
nothing not enough time to diagnose.

13. Did you transfer the sick ray?
no

14. What other info do you think might be helpful?
was perfectly healthy an hour before death.

15. Where was your ray from? Vendor? CB? Wild Caught?
first: WC humerosa 7-8" from shark aquarium. second: CB marble motoro 7-8" from reputable store.

 

[fishman646]

I am uderly confused right now I have lost 4 of my 7 rays in 2 days in 3 seperate tanks? I have many other fish in all the tanks nothing has happened to them ! my water parameters are perfect andin some tanks the rays that didnt die are perfectly fine! These deths were crazy my rays were swimming and eating fine a few hours later dead! I fed shrimp and worms They didnt even eally curl ut for 5 or 10 minutes then instantl dead....I disected one and it look to have sand 3m s grade all in its intestines?