One day eating, next day this

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rudy

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On Friday this ray was fine and eating. Never ate tons but did eat. Saturday had a bit of fungus on the tail. Sunday the ray was full of fungus and died. These are camera phone pics so suck but could somebody tell me what the hell happened to this ray?

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Do you have a UV on this setup? I had some rays who were imported from same guy and 4 out of 6 broke down with a crazy fungus infection and died within one week. The last picture I normaly only see when water is bad whats your like Tim? What were the conditions when this ray died?
 
csx4236;1824761; said:
Do you have a UV on this setup? I had some rays who were imported from same guy and 4 out of 6 broke down with a crazy fungus infection and died within one week. The last picture I normaly only see when water is bad whats your like Tim? What were the conditions when this ray died?
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I did not test them Mike, but cas assure you there was nothing bad about them.
 
ive been having water problems too if u check out my "Ray PH problem" thread.

my rays have been turning a little white and i just found out my ph is jumping all over the place. one tank was 8.0 and another tank was 6.0

its hard to belive when my tap is 7.2 and all the water changes i do, u think they would be consistant.

IMO when something like this happens there is always "something" wrong with their water. i have never had something happen to a ray when all water params were good.

any other rays with this one when this happened?
 
that really sucks rudy... is there any rays left from that order??? i would salt them up real good...
 
i would be curios what water parameters were like. i am struggling with a new ray and i believe it came in with bac infection/ammonia burn and now struggling with ammonia in tank that has been running for a long time. with sufficient filtration. new wild caughts are risky we just don't know what they have gone threw. i am sorry you lost this ray i feel your stress.
 
Whats the tank temp?

I think the age-old "keep rays at a really high temp, especially to get them to eat" ..

Might be a bit counter-productive..

because higher temps proliferate fungal growth.. and with no quarantine, things can go downhill fairly rapidly as Rudy can vouch for that..
 
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