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It's ill. The right eye is either injured or something's up with it. The pupil is too small. Might have been poked with a spine in it.
Is anyone else sick or has been sick recently in that body of water?
I don't keep rays but I wonder if a ray had something to do with it. Not a predatory attack for sure, but an accidental poke / impalement. Pimelodus ornatus are a bit crazy fish, they dart around like mad when one approaches their tank. Mine do anyway. Especially the smaller 6. The bigger 6 are calmer but still do it. They are a lot like P. pictus in demeanor.
Is anyone else sick or has been sick recently in that body of water?
I don't keep rays but I wonder if a ray had something to do with it. Not a predatory attack for sure, but an accidental poke / impalement. Pimelodus ornatus are a bit crazy fish, they dart around like mad when one approaches their tank. Mine do anyway. Especially the smaller 6. The bigger 6 are calmer but still do it. They are a lot like P. pictus in demeanor.
The ray in the tank miscarried almost 2 months ago. Thought for sure I was gonna loose her. Was off food for a few weeks. Been slowly eating more and more but she's still nowhere near better. Forehead dent and hip bones have improved but still have a ways to go. I have NOT treated the tank for anything. Wasn't sure what to treat for. I was unclear if the ray was sick and that caused the miscarriage or if the male was pestering her too much. I moved the male out and she miscarried a few weeks later.....
I've been struggling with what I thought were sick rays during the move that I lost a lot of fish and rays in but never saw enough evidence or symptoms to justify treating. I did have a couple rays I tried to Binox but lost them shortly after medicating. Had a few rays I saved by just turning the RO water on and walking away. So that's been my protocol for all this - lots of really clean water. The ones I did treat died, the ones I just did water with I got 2 to bounce back and this girl seems to be improving but only very very slowly.
What I'm wondering is IF the catfish is showing symptoms of what the ray has or maybe it caught what the catfish has? Ray has been getting better, but the catfish didn't look like this earlier in the week.......
I have a bunch of Bifuran on hand. Now that the ray has been back on food for a few weeks I could justify meds if that is what you guys are thinking needs to happen. I am very weary of medicating non eating rays cause it just seems to kill them faster.
For what its worth there are 8 Odoe and 4 Cuda in this tank that all eat like pigs, look and act normal......
I've been struggling with what I thought were sick rays during the move that I lost a lot of fish and rays in but never saw enough evidence or symptoms to justify treating. I did have a couple rays I tried to Binox but lost them shortly after medicating. Had a few rays I saved by just turning the RO water on and walking away. So that's been my protocol for all this - lots of really clean water. The ones I did treat died, the ones I just did water with I got 2 to bounce back and this girl seems to be improving but only very very slowly.
What I'm wondering is IF the catfish is showing symptoms of what the ray has or maybe it caught what the catfish has? Ray has been getting better, but the catfish didn't look like this earlier in the week.......
I have a bunch of Bifuran on hand. Now that the ray has been back on food for a few weeks I could justify meds if that is what you guys are thinking needs to happen. I am very weary of medicating non eating rays cause it just seems to kill them faster.
For what its worth there are 8 Odoe and 4 Cuda in this tank that all eat like pigs, look and act normal......
I am not fond of tearing at the drop of a hat as it can mess up the whole tank system and encourage resistant strains of all sorts of icky stuff.Why seperate? IF its in the tank shouldn't the whole tank be treated????
I've seen Something similar to this in my own tank with a few cats, but only when introducing. It's like their fins and whiskers would slowly deteriorate. Never found out why. Some lived some didn't. Just kept up with wc. I'm not much for treatments I don't know anything about meds. I think justarn saw this with his cats not to long ago but he believed it was a tankmate doing it.
You can. Not sure what’s going on with the rays. They don’t look like they have fungus. Just don’t want to expose.Why seperate? IF its in the tank shouldn't the whole tank be treated????
Plus if it’s stress from the rays. Removing it will help it heal up.
The ray and cafish have been together for a long time, almost a year. The catfish sits ON the ray most of the time. Having rays I'd sure think if the ray was bothered it would not allow the cat to sit there? Have always seemed like friends to me.... lol. These pics were from not too long ago..
