HELP male Henlei ray dying

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Sorry, I thought that the course of action would have been obvious, I guess not.

In the case of any kind of potential toxin the thing to do would be to either immediately remove the fish affected from that potential toxin, or attempt to remove as much of the toxin from your system as possible. A large water change without the garden hose would have been one option, another would have been to run some carbon through your system ASAP. Not knowing for certain whether the issue was your tap water, or the garden hose, I would have personally gone with some high quality activated carbon, at least for a starter.

All fish react differently to various toxins. What might be safe for one fish, could prove deadly to another, sometimes even within the same species. So no real surprise that only your ray reacted to the water change, and as previously stated seeing as the only thing that was out of the norm was your use of the garden hose that would be the best bet as to what caused the problem.
 
....... he hasn't always used his garden hose.

The only thing I did different was I used the garden hose to fill tank as apprised to a python.
 
This morning ray was sitting at the bottom no more tweaking I threw a few pallets in the tank and he was surprisingly the first to go grab one so I think the issue is somewhat resolved at this Point the only thing I did do is I noticed my pH was six and my tap PH of seven so I added coral last night into the sump. Right now he is swimming around as if nothing ever happened. Thank all of you for your input and your concern I did note not to ever use the Harden hose again. And I will probably cut the water change size down to 30% we will see how that works. Gave a serious stress test though.


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Glad to hear that your ray is doing better, I love happy endings. :)
 
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