how fast of breathing is still heavy from stress of shipping?....is the semi-often raiseing of the disc in the front a normal behavior?( it raises the front about 1/4"-1/2" then flapps and goes flat...it has also arched and twitched a few times once...i got 2 and the other covered itself in the sand and is chilling...they both are not breathing nearly as hard as when they first went in....the one with the described behaivor had dirty water with what looked like sheaded slime in it, and stung the bag in shipping...they look heathy deasent tail thickness and not "skin and bones"...turns out that the male/female pair i ordered is a male/male pair as TFD was all out of females...is there agresstion iusses with multipule males amoung stingrays?...thanx....i will try to get a vid of their breathing to help and the disc raising if it does it as it is not doing this as much any more...
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i haven't tried yet i just got them in this morning....i am uplaoding the vid now the ray less covered is the one doing this...it kinda does it in the vid
here is the quick vid
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also the one in question is more active now then the other one....my ph is and has always been 7 to 7.2...never changes...could be diff from the original in fact i am almost sure it is not that i think about it the other ray did this behaivor in the begining...i did the 1/2 cup of water every 30min for about 3hrs before introduction to the tank, then had to catch some bichirs out that were test biting the rays (not doing any damage, but i took them out after 2 bites to prevent any from happening)
the ph from them (TFD) was probably like 6.
for some reason the video is not working, got a link?
oh and try feeding worms cut real small, if he is eating he is probably OK.
for some reason the video is not working, got a link?
oh and try feeding worms cut real small, if he is eating he is probably OK.
here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMnKm3oeHQ
i will try the worms and i am getting live black worms tomarrow i was in route tonight and my truck broke down...
i will try the worms and i am getting live black worms tomarrow i was in route tonight and my truck broke down...
just through in some worm chunks the better one jumpped at a peice but didn't get it the other in question had and does have cunks on and around it but it didn't even react to them
i went and got some blood worms...i will try and target feed them with an air line and a seringe filled with blood worms to see if i can get them to eat that...how long should these spirts of disc raising go on for?