About six weeks ago, i bought my friend's ray. two female and one male. his tank was elevated and eye-leveled. I transferred it to my tank which is over-looking. The problem is from day one up to this day, every time i do my daily routine such as feeding or even doing my water change (twice a week), the male ray will run around the tank then curl his whole body. sometimes the curling takes a few minutes, sometimes few seconds. my observation was if there is a movement near the tank, the male ray will be frightened then curls his disc. The male eats a bit well, and his body is in good condition. what should i do to help him adjust? should i add more rays? please give me your informative thoughts. thanks=)
My ray is curling, what should i do?
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Well test your water and show us the results. Don't say your way is fine, which most people do. Rays are sensetive so post up some water specs. Also your ray is stressed out, most rays would become settled in by 6 weeks but it may not like it's new home. Adding more ray will cause more stress. Death curl is very hard to fix and it means your ray is a gonner. Sounds like it is the first few stages of death curl. What is the tank like? Do you go bare bottom? Have sand? or??? As for now don't put the tank lights on, leave them off, this will make the ray more calm.
The tank is 5ft x 3ft x 20 inches. the tank is bare bottom. it has two sponge filters inside. my ammonia is 0, my nitrite is 0, but my ph is 7.8 what should i do?
The ray looks great whenever he is moving, he swims around the tank but when the movement around the tank occurs, he becomes frightened.
he looks shocked when there's a movement outside the tank. what do you suggest? but every time he moves, you won't notice that he is stressed
Gravel or sand. If he's frightened he can hide but with no substrate his natural reaction to being scared is being denied him which is doubtless adding to his stress.
I suspect that if you add substrate, after a while knowing he has some way to hide, he will become less stressed and less scared and stop hiding anyway.
I suspect that if you add substrate, after a while knowing he has some way to hide, he will become less stressed and less scared and stop hiding anyway.
thanks=) i was wondering why is he scared although he eats a lot. anyway, by the time I'm putting the sand inside the tanks, won't it stress the rays?
Is the pond covered? How bright are the lights. If it is on the ground I personally would not add substrate as it will be hard to clean unless you have a vacuum pump. Try dimmer lights and maybe some floating plants. My pond is about 3/4 covered. My male freaks out if you bump the side of the pond but if you move slow and don't make a lot of noise then he is fine
FishDog;4359144; said:
my tank is made of glass but it was set up like a small pond, the height of the stand is around 5"-6" the ceiling is made of polycarbonate which means that my tank has direct sunlight. i only use light when feeding at night. me too, same scenario, if you move slowly, he's fine. what do you think should i do to make him feel comfortable? i was thinking of selling him if he won't adjust after some time