Stingray Birth.....miscarriage.

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joey02

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But not in the manner i had hoped....

I came home last night from work and my ray tank looked like a bowl of milk... I could hardly see into the tank...

My Motoro female came to the front of the tank and i noticed her "hump" on her back was gone... So i knew she gave birth... or something happened with the pregnancy...

I could see nothing in the tank that looked like babies, until i was doing a huge water change... i found one of them.... half eaten but still able to be recognized as a stingray baby.... Most of it was already formed.. had most of its disc, and gill slits... i couldnt tell for sure if it had a tail, or eyes due to it being chewed up... the size of the baby is about the size of a dime...

This is my fault,... i should have moved the male, or at least put a divider in.. the male stressed her to the point of having the miscarriage.
Hopefully my female does not have blood poisoning from this....

Lesson learned...

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Bummer. Was this her first litter?
 
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