I am so upset and confused????

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Also based on what your feeding them blackworms are very dirty and full of parasites, you need to get them on frozen shrimp,prawn or silversides fast. Don't waste your time with bloodworms there useless for a larger ray.
 
Dee, Ive been wondering where youve been. You should have stopped by today as I was at work all day.

Im sorry to hear about your first ray and curious to see your water params. Im afraid that most LFS in our area have no clue what the heck they are talking about so Id suggest stopping by my work when Im there or better yet get your own test kit.

If your water params are fine Id suspect the live BWs would be the culprit. Im surprised you havent gotten them on other foods though.
 
well now my other ray died. it was fine and swimming and eating and playing in the bubbles like always and now its dead an hour later! and I meant to say they were in a 55 gallon tank! not a 75 gallon tank

i am bummed to no end! thanks for all the comments and help though. you all are appreciated.
 
DavidW;1011700; said:
Sorry Mike but this is simply not so about blackworms....bad bacteria maybe, if kept in nasty water at an LFS, (Cornell, Univ. Mississippi warm water disease dept and Univ Georgia vet patholgy dept) but they are easily purged with a few days of good clean ice water, but I had CBW's analysed many times and they are not parasite vectors. Also, rays, being bottom feeders, are very well evolved to cope with parasites.
I think the problem here was from too small a body of water without enough w/c's
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i was getting nervous
i have been feeding my rays blackworms for years non stop never had a problem there are leach looking things and stuff mixed in but the rays eat those too
 
Miles;1014157; said:
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Acute Stress = A small amount of stress over a period of time..

12" is simply not enough turning space for any species or any size of ray.. Even if you say "The ray is only 6" and had plenty of space to turn!".. Which would imply the Ray is very juvenile and could succumb to 'acute' stress even easier.

Not to mention the bio-load and water volume.

The likelyhood of an Ammonia spike from a basic feeding schedule is very likely. Daily water changes and waste removal would be a MUST in a tank that size.

What is your pH? The higher the pH, the more toxic Ammonia is.. and in a tank that small the concentration of Ammonia could become very high, very quickly..
 
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