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can we get a pic of the full tank set up to see if there is anything you may of overlooked for her to hurt herself on
I wouldn't be able to get a full tank shot soon but really, there are two round rocks the size of a baseball in the corner of the tank and the rest is sand. There are two canister filter intakes/outputs, 1 HOB intake and 1 Fluval heater with heater guard. She likes to ride the current coming out of the Emperor 400 and if she got spooked, it's possible she could have hit her eye on that output as she rides the current at that spot. I still have no clue about the disc injury, however. This morning the bottom of her disc is nice and white, like usual. She is moving around the tank a little more and with more speed; but still not like usual. The worm is moving around and tickles her disc. I have no idea how she wont eat it but she will glide right over it like it doesn't exist. I dropped one Massivore pellet in as well and she left that alone. I cleaned that out after two hours but I'll try again tonight. 0 reading for ammonia and nitrIte and nitrAte is at 40. I'll do a water change again tonight.
I did see a long white stringy poop that had no substance in it. Since she had not eaten for days now, I'm hoping she is just clearing her system out and that's not an internal infection of sorts. After the water change, I'll calculate out the proper amount of Prazi and add that as well to get the full treatment out of that, just to be sure. I will continue with the Prime conditioner as well.
Her eye seems to have lost about 50% of the blood that was in it. I'm also not seeing any of the excess slime anymore. I'm optimistic about her movements but I really need to see her start eating soon.
I did see a long white stringy poop that had no substance in it. Since she had not eaten for days now, I'm hoping she is just clearing her system out and that's not an internal infection of sorts. After the water change, I'll calculate out the proper amount of Prazi and add that as well to get the full treatment out of that, just to be sure. I will continue with the Prime conditioner as well.
Her eye seems to have lost about 50% of the blood that was in it. I'm also not seeing any of the excess slime anymore. I'm optimistic about her movements but I really need to see her start eating soon.
I am a little late to the party, I hope she is O.K. but Nitrate of 80 ppm is extremely high for all fish especially rays!
Consider getting a nitrate remover or somehow putting some lucky bamboo in your sump. The lucky bamboo actually metabolizes nitrate into Nitrogen gas.
I bought some of the Seachem (sp?) nitrate remove rocks and put them in a small HOB filter while restricting the flow to almost nothing. It has been two months and it really doesn't seem to do much. I don't mind doing the weekly water changes and if I keep up with that, I have not seen any issues. I do have some of the bamboo but heard mixed results with that. It can't hurt anything at this point, however.
Update this morning: I added a live worm and within an hour, she had killed the worm, but won't consume it. I then dropped in a Massivore pellet and she got very excited when it touched her disc. She blew into the sand like she does when searching for food but she just wont eat it. Usually she can down about 5 pellets in 10 seconds or so. I can't see her hip bones yet but I can see the defined bony structure around her head area, which almost look like ribcages on a human. She does appear more active today as well. NitrAtes are barely visible and less than 5.
Update this morning: I added a live worm and within an hour, she had killed the worm, but won't consume it. I then dropped in a Massivore pellet and she got very excited when it touched her disc. She blew into the sand like she does when searching for food but she just wont eat it. Usually she can down about 5 pellets in 10 seconds or so. I can't see her hip bones yet but I can see the defined bony structure around her head area, which almost look like ribcages on a human. She does appear more active today as well. NitrAtes are barely visible and less than 5.
I would add "Ghost shrimp!! Not much vitamins or protien, but most rays love them!
Purpose-to stretch her belly back out a bit to build up her appetite..... Always worked when I imported my rays and they were very stressed or just picky eaters....
Hope that helps out"
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Purpose-to stretch her belly back out a bit to build up her appetite..... Always worked when I imported my rays and they were very stressed or just picky eaters....
Hope that helps out"
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