Ray problems

[Miles]

also, with doing 60% water changes you are not allowing enough bacteria to stay in ur water, so i agree, cut down on the water... is urs bear bottem or do u have substraite....

Bacteria grows on biological media, not in the water.. but we get what you meant..

 

[Brent]

First thing is you HAVE TO USE DECHLORINATOR they add chlorine or chloramine to your water no matter what town you live in. Thats your problem I had it happen to me over the summer my local water district started using 10x the normal amount of chlorine during a heat wave to kill off bacteria and all my rays stopped eating. First thing you need to do is stop the water changes right now your doing way to much and not dechlorinating the water. Go buy some prime or another dechlor and put it in ASAP and always use it, IT'S A MUST. If you have any carbon you can place that in the tank ASAP and it will remove anything bad from your tap water. Salt will help the ray relax and decrease stress. But I cant stress this enough you must use dechlorinator if your doing that much water changes.

perfectly said i agree

 

[turkeyboy85]

Bacteria grows on biological media, not in the water.. but we get what you meant..

yea.... 15 hour work days start to get to ya.....

 

[Rosewood022]

I agree about water treatment for chlorine, etc.

I use an auto water change system that runs 24/7. Obviously adding Stress Coat or the like is not an option on this type of system. I run the water through carbon drinking water filters before dripping it into the tank to remove chlorine and other impurities. The filters need to be changed regularly. I ran them too long the first time I used the system and noticed the rays stopped eating. When I replaced the filters they returned to normal.

Pat
Amazon Stingrays

 

[Tug]

Thanks guys I really appreciate all the attention you've given to my problem. I stopped using the dechlorinator before I purchased my first rays. I thought it didn't affect the other fish I own so the rays would be fine as well. Thanks for turning me around in that regard, I'll start with the water treatments right away. I'm also going to cut way down with the amount of water I change. Maybe only turn it one every 3rd day or something.

I did notice last night she does have a wound on the bottom of her disc edge. I never see this side of her so it went over looked until today when she raised her disc just a little to swim. It looks like a bite mark that has possible gotten infected. It's very red and she seems to keep it off the sand a bit when she swims. I'm thinking the sand might be bugging the injury a bit. I'm thinking the fish that bit her is my 20" tire track eel. I've caught him snapping at the rays in the past at feeding time.

Do you think this could be causing the lack of appetiate? Would salt help her with this kind of an injury?

Should I pull her from the main tank or just treat the sore with the other rays?

I'm going to get a picture of it to show you guys what I'm talking about.

 

[Tug]

Here are a few quick pictures of the red sore in question. I just noticed there is a small red mark on the other side of her disc too. I'm starting to think this wasn't a bite mark but some kind of infection. You tell me.

 

[csx4236]

Salt will help heal the area, It looks like a wound of some sort to me. Add 2 teaspoons per 10 gallons for the salt. Good luck

 

[Miles]

Think that wound could come from abrasive sand, chlorine or ammonia?

 

[Tug]

Well the little ray didn't make it through the night. Before I went to bed she was breathing funny and was very stiff looking, she was curled this morning.

This shows me how fat these rays can go from good to bad. I didn't pay close enough attention to the warning signs and when I finnally tried to do something to help it was to late. I'm very upset with myself and I hope I can treat the remaining rays with a little better care. I can't believe how fast it happens once theres a problem. Two weeks ago the rays was fine, I was taking pictures of her as a matter of fact.

Thanks for the help guys I really appreciate it.