Need a little advice.

[[enjoyable_attempt]]

I bought two, what looks like retic rays. They're only about 4" and are in a bare bottom 40L. One has some ammonia burn on his underside and the other one is fine. They both have some fuzzy stuff on thier tail that I'm concerned about. So far the temp is 80F, params are near perfect 0 ammonia, I added some PraziPro, and some salt. They are breathing hard so I added a airstone also. The lights have been turn off for the time being.

What should I do from here. I have a bigger tank they can go into soon as they are stable, The 40 is just a QT. What should I feed them also,..blackworms?

Oh and the heater has a plastic guard around it so they cant get burned.

 

[hmoobvwj]

Sounds just like my situation when I got my pair of retics. I believed my female developed some kind of fuzzy stuff on her tail and her stinger from the stress of moving and getting them home. I had them in my 180 gallon for a while but they weren't eating and so I moved them into my 55 gallon. Parameters there was perfect too with very low nitrate. They both refused toe eat for 3-4 days. What I did was I turned off the lights on the tank for 2-3 days...and bumped temp to around 88...checked on them and tried feeding them every so often until they finally took nightcrawlers, then bloodworms, then some shrimp. The female has also healed from that fuzzy stuff on her tail and was perfect afterwards and both of them ate like pigs ever since....
Sorry if this was long but this was my experience and what I did....hope it helps

 

[FlapJack]

Good water quality, low stress environment and salt does wonders!
How much salt did you add?
"make sure to mix it with water before you add to the tank"

 

[[enjoyable_attempt]]

Sounds just like my situation when I got my pair of retics. I believed my female developed some kind of fuzzy stuff on her tail and her stinger from the stress of moving and getting them home. I had them in my 180 gallon for a while but they weren't eating and so I moved them into my 55 gallon. Parameters there was perfect too with very low nitrate. They both refused toe eat for 3-4 days. What I did was I turned off the lights on the tank for 2-3 days...and bumped temp to around 88...checked on them and tried feeding them every so often until they finally took nightcrawlers, then bloodworms, then some shrimp. The female has also healed from that fuzzy stuff on her tail and was perfect afterwards and both of them ate like pigs ever since....
Sorry if this was long but this was my experience and what I did....hope it helps

No dude that helps greatly! Thanks much.

All suggestions are still welcome tho!

 

[[enjoyable_attempt]]

Good water quality, low stress environment and salt does wonders!
How much salt did you add?
"make sure to mix it with water before you add to the tank"

1 tablespoon per 5 gals. And I premixed it

 

[hmoobvwj]

I personally never added salt, just the fact that I was scared it will irritate their already sensitive state....I just bumped the temperature and did around 25%-30% WC daily...checked the water parameters constantly...The seem to be very active at high temperature IMO. Always see them swimming up the sides and swimming about with the lights off. Then I gradually started putting on the lights by turning on only one side of the lights on and the other off, so they can pick which ever side they want to be in and so on and so forth.....

 

[Nic]

warm,dark,salted pristine water tank..... offer live black worms thats you can and should do...

 

[[enjoyable_attempt]]

warm,dark,salted pristine water tank..... offer live black worms thats you can and should do...

thanks

 

[abortedsoul]

warm,dark,salted pristine water tank..... offer live black worms thats you can and should do...