My stingy usually enjoys earthworms as its main diet and usually accepts a variety of foods like frozen fish, shrimp, scallop, and squid, but lately she won't eat anything but ghost shrimp. She seems to try and eat the worms but then either they crawl out of her stomach somehow or she throws them up. The ghost shrimp are really a last resort because I don't want her to get a parasite of any sort, plus its putting a pretty big dent in my wallet. The water quality is good: ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate below 10, ph at about 7.2 and 0 chlorine. Any idea why she would do this? She's a female yepezi around 6 inches. Thank u in advance
ray picky eater for the moment
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nitrates being at 10 is prolly a MISread, check it again.... how big is the ray? might need to cut the worms up
Ya you're right they r closer to 20 but still below I thought the first reading was at an increment of ten. My bad. But she's around 6 inches just a little bigger. And she used to eat them whole hundreds of times before and I thought cutting them would help but they only seemed to interest her less when cut. She just won't eat them or throws them up. Only ghost shrimp will she eat, not even anything frozen or lettuce or cucumber cuz she will eat those off the surface too but not lately 
I've noticed mine may not eat well a few days before/during a growth spurt if its only been a few days I'd wait and see what happens. Then maybe treat if things don't look up.
Think we all worry about everything but jumping straight to meds isn't always the best solution.
Just my .02
Think we all worry about everything but jumping straight to meds isn't always the best solution.
Just my .02
I have not done anything to the water yet just hoping it comes around. Anyone else have any ideas? Or advice?
actually mine did this same thing, like the above post...right b4 a growth spurt, stopped eating for a few, then i also think she was constipated, bc she took a huge crap as well lol
Lol that's so funny. Ok well ill see how it goes. She's been like this about a week and she is getting a new stinger and its growing fast so ill repost soon if it improves