Sickest pickup this guy's ever had.

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haynchinook334 said:
Damn shame, he was all about rays. First to hand feed and all.


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That was a joke I bit my lip over for a long time. I was hand feeding stingrays when I was 12 years old-back in 1983. Stingrays are docile, intelligent and have no interest in stabbing the hand that feeds them-just don't step down on top of them. Here ya go VS :nutkick:
 
By no means am I sticking up to that cat about hand feeding his rays (I read the tread). The whole thread gave me a good laugh.




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A bad case of fin rot. :/

Very sad that someone would send a fish in that state (or keep it in ****ty water).
 
Can anyone here elaborate more on the blood filled eye? Is this a symptom of just being kept in VERY poor conditions? Like I mentioned, there has been 3 rays that have developed eye issues while in this guys care. Is it likely that poor water conditions was the cause?

Everyone agree that ammonia is the cause for all the blisters and holes on the bottom side of the ray?

You guys are saying that this kind of damage doesn't happen overnight. I really wish I could have saw what she looked like before boxing up to ship. Even better would have been to see them before they left for the 6+ hour roadtrip......

Day 3 and still feel just sickened by the whole deal. Can't believe stuff like this happens when you try to do something nice for someone. Oh well, I still can't help but feel proud of doing the guy a solid, even if he is the worthless human being that so many pegged him to be. I felt sorry for those rays from day one, just hoped they'd land in someone else's tanks before it was too late. They were for sale for so long and nobody grabbed them. I felt bad and couldn't take it anymore, had to do something. I should have saw nobody jumping as a sign that they were probably already too far gone. I'm sure the blind on can vouge for that...... lol
 
DB junkie said:
Can anyone here elaborate more on the blood filled eye? Is this a symptom of just being kept in VERY poor conditions? Like I mentioned, there has been 3 rays that have developed eye issues while in this guys care. Is it likely that poor water conditions was the cause?

Everyone agree that ammonia is the cause for all the blisters and holes on the bottom side of the ray?

You guys are saying that this kind of damage doesn't happen overnight. I really wish I could have saw what she looked like before boxing up to ship. Even better would have been to see them before they left for the 6+ hour roadtrip......

Day 3 and still feel just sickened by the whole deal. Can't believe stuff like this happens when you try to do something nice for someone. Oh well, I still can't help but feel proud of doing the guy a solid, even if he is the worthless human being that so many pegged him to be. I felt sorry for those rays from day one, just hoped they'd land in someone else's tanks before it was too late. They were for sale for so long and nobody grabbed them. I felt bad and couldn't take it anymore, had to do something. I should have saw nobody jumping as a sign that they were probably already too far gone. I'm sure the blind on can vouge for that...... lol
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Its fin rot and has nothing to do with ammonia.

It takes weeks to get to that stage in such a large fish. Its caused by dirty water = the filtration can handle the bioload.

The red eyes are caused by blood poisoning and is a direct result of the fin rot.

Like I said, it can take weeks to get to this state. Has nothing to do with shipping.
 
I would say the bloody eye was either physical trauma ( the same as people get bloody eye from it ) or the infection was so bad it actually started dissolve the tissue, feel so bad for you dude and the poor rays must have suffered for so long :( , just hope you can save the survivors


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andersp90 said:
Its fin rot and has nothing to do with ammonia.

It takes weeks to get to that stage in such a large fish. Its caused by dirty water = the filtration can handle the bioload.

The red eyes are caused by blood poisoning and is a direct result of the fin rot.

Like I said, it can take weeks to get to this state. Has nothing to do with shipping.
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None of it including the holes in the disc were from Ammonia?

Fin rot as in transferable disease that will spread? Wow. This will be interesting. Don't bother treating, just tear system down? Hopefully it shouldn't spread as not my first rodeo with "dirty" rays.
 
DB junkie said:
None of it including the holes in the disc were from Ammonia?

Fin rot as in transferable disease that will spread? Wow. This will be interesting. Don't bother treating, just tear system down? Hopefully it shouldn't spread as not my first rodeo with "dirty" rays.
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It will only spread if you have water filled with biomatter which your filter cant keep up with. Yours looks clean and nice. I wouldent worry. :)

It can be treated very effectively with salt.

Your ray was in a state where it was way too late to do anything though. :/
 
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