How do you tell if your ray has INTERNAL parasites?

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Candiru
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Hello,

My motoro rays are captive bred and (as far as I know) have never been fed live food. I acquired them at around 2-3 wks old and have been feeding them a staple diet of blackworms and red wigglers. I have noticed that my smaller male ray's fecal matter has bands of white running down the length of "the curly," but still solid. Whereas, my female's is one solid color all the way through. This worries me because their diets are the same, yet the fecal matter is different.

Both have good appetites, but I want to know. Its always better safe than sorry.


P.S. If I put the fecal matter under microscope, how am I suppose to ID it anyways? I'm no biologist.
 
Pale color in fecal material isn't too much to worry about. If you want to run it under a scope, there are several good parasite books that will allow you to match pics of what you see to what it is.
 
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