urgent ray help death curl

[festaedan]

Hopefully it gets stable again. What do you think caused it? Did you just do a water change or do you have allot of driftwood in the tank?

 

[Evz jardini]

I have got a centre piece of drift that's a chunk that's why I put coral gravel bag in my filter , I've just topped it up with more now hopefully it'll balance out again I've no idea how it dropped so fast though pH was 6.5 a week ago , now I've messed with my fx my tanks filthy I'll have to let it clear w\c tomorrow and test water again with diff kit :banghead::banghead::banghead:

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[moosemj]

That sucks! I lost one ray to death curl and the feeling of helplessness sucks. Fix it up and save your other fish as best you can, good luck!


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[Evz jardini]

Tested water again new testing kit , totally different ball game , ammonia somewhere between 0.1 and 0.4 ( about 0.3 ) ,
nitrite 0.1 (just)
nitrate over 25 ( about 35)
, pH 5 rising slowly
The test kit I've used for few weeks is now on the bin :banghead: not that its gonna help my ray now . I've cleaned my fx out and took out the zeolite on the off chance its bleeding ammonia back into tank , little w\c lights out

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[Evz jardini]

That sucks! I lost one ray to death curl and the feeling of helplessness sucks. Fix it up and save your other fish as best you can, good luck!


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Thanks man , I hate days like this in the hobby :-(

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[Carpsalmon]

Lost two motoros like this back in the day; look at the bright side, time for a new ray


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[Evz jardini]

It wasn't that old I'd only had it six months if that
Think I'm just gona put my fish out a my grow out in main tank in few months and get another couple of rays when I can build a plywood tank

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[stingray keeper]

ffs.

pH drops because you don't have enough Kh buffering the water and the biofilter uses up Kh over time. The biofilter goes dormant at low pH, ammonia increases, nitrite increases. At low pH the nitrite will be most damaging and then as you raise the pH back up the ammonia will become dangerous. Fishkeeping 101.

Not seeing ammonia and nitrite readings posted in this thread.. Low pH on its own doesn't kill rays, it's the knock-on effects.

+1 couldn't have said it better. Your load is too big for your biological filtration. You got stripped of KH thus causing a PH crash. Check your KH also.

 

[Evz jardini]

Thanks for the help and info guys , having a tester kit thats works would have helped
I do a 50% wc on my tank once a week and hoover at least a couple of 25l buckets of crap off the bottom once a week i would have increased my routine if had known my ammonia and nitrates were so high therewas no tell tail signs from any fish except this morn when it was too late
I'll get it balanced in the next few days gradually all my other fish seem fine atm

 

[Evz jardini]

Bit more balance to my tank today waters getting back to normal slowly ammonia down to 0.1
PH back to 6.5
Nitrate down to about 25
Nitrite still 0.1
Hopefully everything will be OK in couple of days with few w\cs

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