i have been absolutly tortured by this little bd for the last month.this is hands down by far the most resiliant fish i have ever seen.theirs a massive story behind this ray not going into that detial now.
its been here fo one month.after a few days it started eating for 2-3 days than stated freaking out.my water quality has always been good just our calgary water is super hard/super high mineral content and high ph of 8ish.acclimation might be hard on him ,big shock.
i will start from day 1. tanks been dark since day one and still is!!
got him acclimated turned up th temp to around 89 and added salt on day 3.the ray started eating chopped shrimp ,earth worms,snails and black worms .for two three days it ate fine.i lowered the temp slowly to 84 and started doing water changes to flush out the salinity.than the rays stopped eating on about day 7-8.it also started fraking out lashing swimming crazy freaking out.i moved it into a smaller tank in the basement in a very dark corner and has been in that 90 gallon all alone for 3 weeks now.After i moved it i have kept evey thing extremely stable.i added prazipro for 3 days than had to stop treatment because the ray was swimming upside down.i was thinking maybe a internal worm was causing it not to eat,but i was wrong.prazi had very negative effects this time.than a few days late i noticed red on the underside of disc which than turned into swores or wounds that looked like burns maybe it was? it was possible cause my heater was uncoverd than.but these wounds started to spread and then the viens started turning red like ammonia poisioning. redness in the viens of the ray was all over the underside.i added salt and raised the temp back to 87.it healed up fine after a few days.i flushed salt out again and now the wounds and the red ness is coming back on the top of the disc and i am going to call it bacteria for sure thats causing this.which than turned into ulcer disease with open wounds with fungus around the edges feeding on the bacterial infested areas.
the cause of this bad shipment!! i began force feeding it with a tube and noticed the rays strenght and energy is getting better.now i find the ray upside down swimming or even just laying like that all the time.i flip him sevral times a day and this has been going on for a week.why wont it just die already.theirs alot of o2 in the tank thats what i think keeps it alive when its upside down all the time.
today i added marcyn plus to cure the bacterial problem.i hope it works.i am not going to use salt in the water anymore maybe just squirt onto the areas that are effected bad.
now today the ray has learned to keep its mouth closed tight i cant force feed him anymore.
any insight ideas on this anybody? ever had this before and would like to discuss it?? .i am not going to use and hard medications i beleive that the water quality i have maintained and the high levels of dissolved o2 kept this little guy alive this long and the recent force feedings.
treatments??
its been here fo one month.after a few days it started eating for 2-3 days than stated freaking out.my water quality has always been good just our calgary water is super hard/super high mineral content and high ph of 8ish.acclimation might be hard on him ,big shock.
i will start from day 1. tanks been dark since day one and still is!!
got him acclimated turned up th temp to around 89 and added salt on day 3.the ray started eating chopped shrimp ,earth worms,snails and black worms .for two three days it ate fine.i lowered the temp slowly to 84 and started doing water changes to flush out the salinity.than the rays stopped eating on about day 7-8.it also started fraking out lashing swimming crazy freaking out.i moved it into a smaller tank in the basement in a very dark corner and has been in that 90 gallon all alone for 3 weeks now.After i moved it i have kept evey thing extremely stable.i added prazipro for 3 days than had to stop treatment because the ray was swimming upside down.i was thinking maybe a internal worm was causing it not to eat,but i was wrong.prazi had very negative effects this time.than a few days late i noticed red on the underside of disc which than turned into swores or wounds that looked like burns maybe it was? it was possible cause my heater was uncoverd than.but these wounds started to spread and then the viens started turning red like ammonia poisioning. redness in the viens of the ray was all over the underside.i added salt and raised the temp back to 87.it healed up fine after a few days.i flushed salt out again and now the wounds and the red ness is coming back on the top of the disc and i am going to call it bacteria for sure thats causing this.which than turned into ulcer disease with open wounds with fungus around the edges feeding on the bacterial infested areas.
the cause of this bad shipment!! i began force feeding it with a tube and noticed the rays strenght and energy is getting better.now i find the ray upside down swimming or even just laying like that all the time.i flip him sevral times a day and this has been going on for a week.why wont it just die already.theirs alot of o2 in the tank thats what i think keeps it alive when its upside down all the time.
today i added marcyn plus to cure the bacterial problem.i hope it works.i am not going to use salt in the water anymore maybe just squirt onto the areas that are effected bad.
now today the ray has learned to keep its mouth closed tight i cant force feed him anymore.
any insight ideas on this anybody? ever had this before and would like to discuss it?? .i am not going to use and hard medications i beleive that the water quality i have maintained and the high levels of dissolved o2 kept this little guy alive this long and the recent force feedings.
treatments??
