Yesterday i for sure thought this little male henlei was going to die,he was showing signs of death "ie" disc starting to curl up,freaking out swimming all over the place extremely heavy breathing.
People you all said use salt.The henlei is in my sump tank.I disconnected the sump from main tank and recirculated water through it and added salt.He infact looked like he was going to die yesterday so somebody gave me a crazey idea of salt bath for a few minutes in extremley salty water.I looked at the henlei his disc was starting to curl up,i had nothing to loose to try this.I had a 5 gallon bucket with very salty water inside i put the henlei in for 3-4 minutes than put him back in the tank.It seemed like nothing happened he was going to die in my mind.I left the sump recirculating for a few hours with salty water than reconnected to the main tank and flush fresh water back into tank.I woke up early this moring he was calm,i thought maybe he had died.later this morning i droped earth worms in and he went for it.he has eaten this morning but not alot.Some black worms too.I think that the salt bath saved the ray i added a pound and a half of salt to the 300 gallon system afterwards.This was a expriment i had nothing to loose the ray is going to be replaced or rembursed if it dies anyways.Something to think about.Next time you have a ray disc curling and freaking out give it a salty bath i mean salty for 5 minutes i think this worked out.we will see how he is in a weeks time.ammonia may have damaged him internal how can you fix this!!!
People you all said use salt.The henlei is in my sump tank.I disconnected the sump from main tank and recirculated water through it and added salt.He infact looked like he was going to die yesterday so somebody gave me a crazey idea of salt bath for a few minutes in extremley salty water.I looked at the henlei his disc was starting to curl up,i had nothing to loose to try this.I had a 5 gallon bucket with very salty water inside i put the henlei in for 3-4 minutes than put him back in the tank.It seemed like nothing happened he was going to die in my mind.I left the sump recirculating for a few hours with salty water than reconnected to the main tank and flush fresh water back into tank.I woke up early this moring he was calm,i thought maybe he had died.later this morning i droped earth worms in and he went for it.he has eaten this morning but not alot.Some black worms too.I think that the salt bath saved the ray i added a pound and a half of salt to the 300 gallon system afterwards.This was a expriment i had nothing to loose the ray is going to be replaced or rembursed if it dies anyways.Something to think about.Next time you have a ray disc curling and freaking out give it a salty bath i mean salty for 5 minutes i think this worked out.we will see how he is in a weeks time.ammonia may have damaged him internal how can you fix this!!!
