ray not eating!

[shacklock]

i've got a female motoro pup and she has been in my tank for about a month already, her main diet was shrimp feeders but i've been trying to train her to eat prawn meat but now she isn't eating at all!
i'm worried cause she is damn skinny now and turning pale.
any thing i can do to make her eat?

 

[carolines100]

Give the water a test make sure that's fine first ... Tank size, filtration,any tank mates,,did u qurenteen the feeders shrimp , if all well try finally chopped earth worm always works for me..

 

[WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS]

defo what carolines100 check parameters. Chopped earthworm works a charm normally

 

[shacklock]

will do a water test tomorrow only got pH test kit and its reading slightly above 7 thou. 4x1.5x1.5 overhead filter with two tiers of filter boxes. erm no i don't quarantine the feeder shrimps before feeding as ive been buying feeders from that particular shop for quite awhile and i kinda trust that shop. just throwed baby catfish inside and saw her eating it! is there anyway other to train her to eat prawn meat pther than starving her?

 

[keepinfish]

baby catfish? that could be bad. the spine could possibly damage the ray.

Sounds like you may have water issues, as said above. Change water...change water, and change water again!

 

[KING1307]

if he didnt quarantine the feeders would it be possible that they gave the motoro some sort of parasite, what works for me pretty much all the time with any ray is id give it a prazi pro treatment then start feeding it some cut up night crawlers, always works for me.

 

[KING1307]

how is the pup doing? did u get it eating?

 

[bcfd144]

Some rays wont eat prawn. I have two that will not eat it. Dont ask me why. But, like one of the guys said, take earthworms and chop them up to bite size pieces to make it easier for her to eat. Later you can just give her the hole worm. But chops some up and feed to her, get her fat and eating again then try the prawn at a later time when she is eating on a reg basis... that way you are not trying to ffed her something to get her to start eating again with something she may or may not like to eat.