Ray newbie!

[Maor0]

nice looking ray

 

[kwstas_original]

Thanks everybody!!

Got a FTS?

Sorry...give me full words please!

Nice Motoro. As far as meds go, there is a sticky that explains the different meds and what each on can be used for. If the ray is healthy and eating, all you need is clean water. Wild caught rays can have parasites, but if its eating, I don't recommend stressing it further. You can try chopped night crawlers, chopped raw fresh shrimp, talipia, some will even take to pellets. Stick with what it likes and slowly mix in new foods. Enjoy.

Nice motoro, if you are meaning in case of accident as in stuck by the spine there is also a sticky with a link that explains everything you should do.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?34420-Ray-Safety-Thread

Thanks for the good infos guyes.
I also read some good advices here: http://www.freshwaterstingray.nl/Frames Engels/English.html
I didn't read all the stickies yet but my only question right now is if i should keep near the tank some special medications or something i can personaly do if i come in touch by accident with the sting.
I'm asking this cause i'm not sure if something happend and i'll go to the hospital if the doctors can treat me and know what to do.
And thats because of this post:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...afety-Thread&p=1877092&viewfull=1#post1877092
Best advice i took so far is to put the hurt arm in hot water.
But i don't think this can save me from the poison...

Nice Motoro but looks pretty skinny. Feed him up

I'm trying to make him eat some other foods like frozen shrimp etc but he only eat bloodworms....a lot of bloodworms actualy!
He doesn't want to try anything alse.
Any good advices on that?

Some recent pics:

 

[kwstas_original]

bump!

 

[sikoko]

beautiful ray. i would keep melafix and pimafix by the tank as a first resort.

 

[Tor-Eriik]

Try nightcrawlers looks nice!

 

[PeteLockwood]

There is a sticky for switching rays to other foods too.

 

[I_got_no_idea]

try mixing foods together. like add a little cut up shrimp with some bloodworms. like really small shrimp. freeze them together. the stingray will most likely eat it and have a sense of a little shrimp. add a little more shrimp after some time and when it is about 50 50 try feeding him shrimp. this sometimes work. and try night crawlers, small fish cuts, and everything.

 

[kwstas_original]

i would keep melafix and pimafix by the tank as a first resort.

i'm not talking about the ray, i'm talking about me!!!
i don't think i can drink melafix dude!

Try nightcrawlers looks nice!

to me...looks gorgeus!!!
i tried some live earthworm but he scared like hell when he saw it and jumped quickly in the other side of the tank!

There is a sticky for switching rays to other foods too.

That's the best i have right now, that sticky thread...thanks m8.

try mixing foods together. like add a little cut up shrimp with some bloodworms. like really small shrimp. freeze them together. the stingray will most likely eat it and have a sense of a little shrimp. add a little more shrimp after some time and when it is about 50 50 try feeding him shrimp. this sometimes work. and try night crawlers, small fish cuts, and everything.

Thanks for your time.
This is the only thing that looks to work since today.
I tried a really small piece of shrimp surounded by bloodworm.
He tasted it and he seemed to like it!
Now the only thing i have to do is to try it many times till he can accept shrimp only with no problem.
I think he's starting to look better and more healthy, he's hungry all the time (as he should be), and he's tail looks fat and nice.

 

[Zoodiver]

Best advice i took so far is to put the hurt arm in hot water.
But i don't think this can save me from the poison...

Actually it will. The catalyst in the toxin is based on a compound protein the breaks down in heat. Hot water stops the venom from working.

 

[kwstas_original]

Actually it will. The catalyst in the toxin is based on a compound protein the breaks down in heat. Hot water stops the venom from working.

I believe you.
But the question is what can i do after that.
I can't live with my hand in hot water forever!

Actualy i'm in thoughts beacause the guey here said that even the doctors in the hospital didn't know what to do to treat him and his ray book saved him.
I'm not sure if our doctors here know how to treat something like that and even if i like rays very much, i don't want to die in an emergency room!

So the real question is, what can i personoly do, beside hot water so i can win some time (and my life maybe) and not to go to the nearest hospital in a case of an accident because i'm 100% sure that they wont know anything more than me already...

I hope you get the point...