My female hystrix got an injury to her tail a couple weeks ago and stopped eating. The tip of her tail rotted off within about 2 days, it went quick. I was able to get her eating ghost shrimp, but she wouldn't eat much. She also started eating tiny amounts of blackworms again too, but I could tell she was still losing weight. Saturday night she died.
When I noticed the injury about a day after she went off food, I started doing extra wc in addition to my auto-drip system and also added salt. This seemed to help, but she never went back to eating full force. I tried to increase the temp, but my heater broke and the replacements I had on hand could only maintain existing temp. I got a new heater because it was under warranty but that took about a week.
My male is doing great, eating well and fat. The female was always skinnier, although I think she was healthy she just wasn't as vigorous about eating.
The real challenge was telling my 3 year old daughter that 'mommy stinkray', as she named it, had died. She took it pretty well, we're going to get a new mommy to keep the daddy company.
R.I.P. Mommy stinkray
When I noticed the injury about a day after she went off food, I started doing extra wc in addition to my auto-drip system and also added salt. This seemed to help, but she never went back to eating full force. I tried to increase the temp, but my heater broke and the replacements I had on hand could only maintain existing temp. I got a new heater because it was under warranty but that took about a week.
My male is doing great, eating well and fat. The female was always skinnier, although I think she was healthy she just wasn't as vigorous about eating.
The real challenge was telling my 3 year old daughter that 'mommy stinkray', as she named it, had died. She took it pretty well, we're going to get a new mommy to keep the daddy company.
R.I.P. Mommy stinkray
