Hi everyone I'm new to this board but not new to this hobby and I had a couple ?'s. I just bought a 12" marble two days ago and it start eating yesterday.I fed it shrimp two times yesterday morning and last night.This morning I tried to feed him but he didnt want to eat.So I checked my water and everything was fine but my PH was a little bit high could that be the prob.?
marble motoro/Not eating
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Your ray is proberly a little stressed out deu to transport and capturing. Feed hem at night it are night animals. If he eats you don't have a problem you can help him a little bit by rasing the temprature a little bit.
Regards
Frank
Regards
Frank
bump it up gradually to the mid 80's to stimulate the metabolism ( helps the ray get hungrier faster ) . Other than that, the params seems perfect. I would just leave the tank and the ray alone, make sure its in isolation ( no tankmates if you dont want to risk stressing a new ray )and it will eat in a few days.
BTW - shrimp is frozen market shrimp or live ghost shrimp ? I highly recommend blackworms to newly acclimated stingrays. Its very nutrious and and has a very high chance of the ray accepting it.
BTW - shrimp is frozen market shrimp or live ghost shrimp ? I highly recommend blackworms to newly acclimated stingrays. Its very nutrious and and has a very high chance of the ray accepting it.
yeah , make sure you drop some worms over his head so that he "inhales"
some BW into its spiracle to get a taste of eat without actually opening its mouth.
And relax... motoros are tough... just keep the lights down low, if the tank is in a high traffic area cover it in the meantime to help acclimate the new ray.
some BW into its spiracle to get a taste of eat without actually opening its mouth.
And relax... motoros are tough... just keep the lights down low, if the tank is in a high traffic area cover it in the meantime to help acclimate the new ray.
Take a black sheet and entirely cover his tank, I have noticed that helps alot with stressed rays.
Heat and blackworms, and they will usually pull out of it.. Usually a little aquarium salt will help alleviate stress as well. I have pulled a ray out of the beginnings of a death curl using the combined 4 steps..(Antenna ray to be exact, before FedEx shipped it to the wrong state and killed it
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Tankmates will bother him too, especially fast moving or bottom dwellers such as catfish, cyprinids, or characins..
Heat and blackworms, and they will usually pull out of it.. Usually a little aquarium salt will help alleviate stress as well. I have pulled a ray out of the beginnings of a death curl using the combined 4 steps..(Antenna ray to be exact, before FedEx shipped it to the wrong state and killed it
)Tankmates will bother him too, especially fast moving or bottom dwellers such as catfish, cyprinids, or characins..