Hello,
I regretfully join Monster Fish Keepers under rather sad circumstances. I have just recently experienced the death of my young reticulated stingray (i.e., 5 in diameter). I am posting to see if I can find some resolution, and determine the root of the problem.
I had her in a 180 gallon planted tank. I have a fluval fx5 and a custom sump (roughly 10-20 gallon) filtering the tank. The substrate is a soft-sand bottom. Temperature is 78 degrees. Water parameters are as follows ph = 6.2, ammonia 0.0 ppm according to live reader and 0.25 ppm according to master kit, nitrites 0 ppm, and nitrates 0 ppm. Treated water change roughly 10-20% every other day. Diet consists of black worms. Other tankmates included 11 Buenos Aires Tetras, and 2 large black angelfish. No signs of aggression from tankmates.
As of yesterday afternoon she was actively swimming around the tank. The trouble first started when I noticed her suctioned to the surface of the water. She was not inverted, but upright, and discs curled to create suction. I pushed her down breaking the seal with the surface. She then began swimming around the tank again, only much slower and in more a gliding motion. Twice (to my knowledge) she went for the surface again. At feeding time she refused to eat. As of this morning she sat in one spot at the bottom of the tank. Her film coat was sloughing off. Her breathing was labored. By the afternoon she was dead.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what might have caused her death, please let me know.
All the best,
Michael
I regretfully join Monster Fish Keepers under rather sad circumstances. I have just recently experienced the death of my young reticulated stingray (i.e., 5 in diameter). I am posting to see if I can find some resolution, and determine the root of the problem.
I had her in a 180 gallon planted tank. I have a fluval fx5 and a custom sump (roughly 10-20 gallon) filtering the tank. The substrate is a soft-sand bottom. Temperature is 78 degrees. Water parameters are as follows ph = 6.2, ammonia 0.0 ppm according to live reader and 0.25 ppm according to master kit, nitrites 0 ppm, and nitrates 0 ppm. Treated water change roughly 10-20% every other day. Diet consists of black worms. Other tankmates included 11 Buenos Aires Tetras, and 2 large black angelfish. No signs of aggression from tankmates.
As of yesterday afternoon she was actively swimming around the tank. The trouble first started when I noticed her suctioned to the surface of the water. She was not inverted, but upright, and discs curled to create suction. I pushed her down breaking the seal with the surface. She then began swimming around the tank again, only much slower and in more a gliding motion. Twice (to my knowledge) she went for the surface again. At feeding time she refused to eat. As of this morning she sat in one spot at the bottom of the tank. Her film coat was sloughing off. Her breathing was labored. By the afternoon she was dead.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what might have caused her death, please let me know.
All the best,
Michael
