Motoro stopped eating!! Help!!!

[Anderman]

I posted a previous thread on a couple stingrays I got from a sponsor on another site: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=284991 ...As you can see in the thread the stingrays where very skinny and looked like they had not eaten in a month. Well with my credit I got another motoro and it came in just as skinny and not eating. It ate for about a week and now has stopped. I have 4 other hybrid stingrays in the tank and they are all doing fine. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do as I don't think this one has much longer to live. Here is a pic of the skinny motoro and you can compare it with one of my healthy hybrids. See how skinny the tail is!!

 

[Gshock]

Not much you really can do. As a last resort you could always force feed, but you'd have to pm zoodiver on more info on that as its not something we usually do.

 

[calgaryflames]

try a salt bath it worked on two of my rays

 

[calgaryflames]

10 minutes in a bucket of very salty water.than put him back into tank.

 

[calgaryflames]

and one of my rays was worse than that he was curling up but now he is a big i named him lucky

 

[skynoch]

Are you able to get any blackworms yet? What have you tried to feed it? What are the current tankmates?

 

[keepinfish]

Are you able to get any blackworms yet? What have you tried to feed it? What are the current tankmates?

try black worms or small nightcrawlers.

 

[vamptrev]

quarantine tank, lights off, salt, barebottom, good filtration, & waterchanges

 

[PeteLockwood]

Treat for intestinal parasites?

 

[Anderman]

Emergency over the ray died just like the first two. It was too skinny when it was sent to me and couldn't recover. It lasted 2 weeks.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will keep them in mind if the problem ever arises again. Which I hope it doesn't!!