Hi,
I need help on trying to find out a reason as to why i lost 5 small healthy rays. Ill start with the tank they was in. It was 6.5x3x4 with 2 fx5s and a small eheim filter. The tank was on a hma drip system so fresh water was being adding and old being taking out. The first ray i lost was a hybrid and he lost half his skin and when i tried moving it i caused to much stress to it and unfortunately he died
At first i thought it was another fish that may have taking the skin off but there are no plecos with the rays and nothing else that would seem to be able to do it !!
Then the next was a small motoro ray that i came home to dead and half of it was eaten due to it dead...(I think). Then the next hybrid just died even though he was swimming about the night before. Then finally my male and female p14s. I noticed that the female seemed to have been losing its skin but it didnt. The male seemed ok as he would still eat but she stopped eating alot but then today the male just died and she is still alive but looking in a bad way. I was advised to try certain treatments but here in the uk its hard to get certain things quickly for rays as they are from america etc. Someone said to try melafix which i did when the first one died but i can now say i did nothing at all !!
Sorry for long story but hopefully u can understand and try and help me find out a reason as i have two large motoro rays i am now worrying about Note no other fish have died just 5 rays.
I need help on trying to find out a reason as to why i lost 5 small healthy rays. Ill start with the tank they was in. It was 6.5x3x4 with 2 fx5s and a small eheim filter. The tank was on a hma drip system so fresh water was being adding and old being taking out. The first ray i lost was a hybrid and he lost half his skin and when i tried moving it i caused to much stress to it and unfortunately he died
At first i thought it was another fish that may have taking the skin off but there are no plecos with the rays and nothing else that would seem to be able to do it !!Then the next was a small motoro ray that i came home to dead and half of it was eaten due to it dead...(I think). Then the next hybrid just died even though he was swimming about the night before. Then finally my male and female p14s. I noticed that the female seemed to have been losing its skin but it didnt. The male seemed ok as he would still eat but she stopped eating alot but then today the male just died and she is still alive but looking in a bad way. I was advised to try certain treatments but here in the uk its hard to get certain things quickly for rays as they are from america etc. Someone said to try melafix which i did when the first one died but i can now say i did nothing at all !!
Sorry for long story but hopefully u can understand and try and help me find out a reason as i have two large motoro rays i am now worrying about
Note no other fish have died just 5 rays.
