Incredible tale
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severum1;2633355; said:The litlle one just died
It's very sad and i'm so
Miguel;2633446; said:
yea you did all you could do... still is a shame...
CDickes1988;2633880; said:
guess you didnt read 3 posts up...
alberto how is momma doing?
damn dude... You def did your best and praise you for it. Mom should come through. We all have our fingers crossed. As for the force feeding... I don't think its a good idea. Everytime you do it you disrupt her and stress er and he cycle starts again. She doesn't look too skinny or unhealthy. She just needs time to adjust from everything and a new home. If she starts getting more comfortable and you grab her and feed her it probably just resets her comfort level and she will always be timid. Personally, and this is just my .02, you have a large healthy established animal. Give it some time even if that means a week or two before you force feed again and try and keep live blackworms or nightcralwers etc in there and easy for her to get to. I think this would be better but yourself or others may say im wrong. If this was a pup I would feel differently but tha ray can live off the fat in its tail for at least a month before nutrition will be an "extreme" problem. Good Luck
michael;2641997; said:
the person he talked to about this michael did this same thing to a shroederi flower.... now that ray looks great and is eating on its own... i see what your saying about stress as this was and is a concern of mine but a few feedings of gooey pellets will help her...
Thank you for your input Michael. I need inputs for trying to save her.
Ive received this rays a month ago. They have never eated. I can understand that they have never eated after been captured. They arrived very skinny. So i think that for, at least, 1 and 1/2 month, they dont eat. The male is perhaps in better health but he doesnt eat to. At this moment I think that this is the best thing to do for trying to save this female. And if the male continues not eating Im going to do the same thing. They stiil have ammonia burns and they are poisonous by that. So until they dont react to food Im going to do this. I know that this is stressful for them. Capture them, holding them and force feeding them is very stressful but at this moment I think its better than dying for not eating.
Im adding also some vitamins to the food to see if she reacts to it.
Ive received this rays a month ago. They have never eated. I can understand that they have never eated after been captured. They arrived very skinny. So i think that for, at least, 1 and 1/2 month, they dont eat. The male is perhaps in better health but he doesnt eat to. At this moment I think that this is the best thing to do for trying to save this female. And if the male continues not eating Im going to do the same thing. They stiil have ammonia burns and they are poisonous by that. So until they dont react to food Im going to do this. I know that this is stressful for them. Capture them, holding them and force feeding them is very stressful but at this moment I think its better than dying for not eating.
Im adding also some vitamins to the food to see if she reacts to it.
Good luck with the force-feeding. Might want to try adding some Prazi directly to the pellet mush, so you know if she has any internal parasites they'll be directly in contact with the meds. As some others have said as well, try to get live blackworms - they are what finally convinced my flower to eat on her own.
