Ray Hunger Strike

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Rosewood022

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I picked up 4 breeding motoros on 4-30-08. They were transported by car for approx 6 hrs in large bins with air stones running. All were acclimated into the same system. 3 started eating right away. 1 did not. She ate nothing for 52 days. She has lost a ton of weight, her pelvic bones show, and there is a serious dent between her eyes. I offered her every food possible, including what she was eating for her previous owner. She still refused food. Finally, today, she ate some smelt. I thought I was going to lose her. If she hadn't been in such good shape when I bought her, she would never have survived this long. The longest hunger strike I've seen a ray survive prior to this was 35 days. I hope she recovers and continues to eat.

I'm curious to know if anyone has had experiences like this before, how long their ray went without eating, and what they did to try to entice them to eat.

Pat
Amazon Stingrays
 
damn 52 days seems like a long time
i am glad to hear shes better
the longest for me was a couple weeks
 
Pat,

Ouch! I hope she is not a ray that I am familiar with.

Congrats on getting her to eat something. At some point, you may want to consider force feeding her. I know a few people that have done it but it does not sound like that much fun.

Good luck with her.

Colin
 
I have seen this from many of my imported ray from Colombia. i guess this is due to some parasite or could be possible over stress during the tranpotation process. they could have been starve for weeks before come to our tank.

I find using plaziquantel did dramatic different on those hunger strike ray, i have get most of the ray to eat after 1 to 2 weeks of continue treatment with plaziquentel. if the ray still refuse to eat after the treatment, then you have to try some life food to stimulate their eating mode.

sometime i move and mix inside some previous batch of healthy ray which are eating very well. this will also help to influnce or train them to eat. Changing water also will help..... just some input for consideration....
 
I starved a ray for 32 day to get her to eat something other than black worms. On the 32nd day she gave up and started eating anything I put in the tank except earthworms.:screwy:
 
glad she is eating pat.... hope all works out...
 
Glad she's eating something for you now.

I have a flower that I've had for 6 weeks now that is surviving on force-feeding alone. She had really high ammonia in the bag from shipping, but otherwise she physically looked healthy (thick body, fat tail etc), and actually had no ammonia burns of any kind. She's just about skin and bones now, but I'm feeding her every other day for now, and might step it up to every day. I dosed Prazi at 4x for the first week (followed by water changes), and then re-dosed at 4x again on week 4. I've tried absolutely everything I can think of or have heard of rays eating; feeders (minnows, goldfish, cichlid fry), ghost shrimp, chopped earthworms, bloodworms, mysis, chopped shrimp, squid, smelts, krill, but she shows no interest in any food (tried everything except blackworms - we don't have a readily available supply of them, and when they come in are usually half dead). Now that I think of it, I may try to collect some gammarus shrimp if I can... I'm force-feeding 20cc of pureed Massivore and NLS (with an earthworm starter), and it's at least been sustaining her for probably 2-3 weeks now.

Congrats on getting your ray to eat Pat; at least I can still have some hope for mine eventually eating.
 
Glad she is eating now....
 
pat this ray is from brad right? she must have not liked to be shipped ... at all lol congrats and hope she starts piging out a ton!
 
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