URGEN, URGEN!!! NEED HELP ON RAY. WHITE STUFF EATING RAY'S BODY

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solara

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Few days ago, my male ray bite a new female I realeased into the pond. she had regular bite marks. Two days ago, she had some white batch on her disk. the white stuff keep on spreading and seems to eating away the flesh at the disk. you can see she is loosing her skin. today, i found out another ray is having the same problem so i don't think it is bite marks anymore. Please help me determine what it is how how to treat it. I am trying to treat the entire pond. the pond foot print is 6'lx4'w, estimate water volume is 180 G.

Please let me know what medicine is best for it, water temperature...

My water is 0 on ammonia and light blue on nitrate. I just did a 20% water change for the pond and added extra salt. Please help

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OMG! WTF???
 
Has a bacterial infection. Try Binox.
 
Does it spread? can i treated the entire pond including those that are not infected? thx
 
Are they in a tank with sand/substrate. Some will/would say remove the substrate as the bacteria can be mixed in there. Also as with any bacterial med be very attentive to your water quality as it can attack the good bacteria even if the med tells you it won't.
 
Nitrofurazone which is the active ingrediant in binox is for bacterial infections but I'm also guessing your water quality is off or your bottom is dirty in your pond for this to have happened. Do a good cleaning of the pond bottom first and a big waterchange before treating.
 
One of my friend said it could be ammonia burn ans suggested me just do 15% WC daily before treating with medicine. The pond is a rubber, plastic pond. There is nothing on the bottom except their wastes. It used to be just 2 rays and I just added 2 new rays into the pond couple of days ago. I guess that spiked up the ammonia level. I will upgrade the filtration system meanwhile will do WC daily. Hope it help. In addition, if Binox actually helps the rays to recover faster, should i add Binox in as well or should i just take time for them to recover? thanks
 
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