Last night when I was going to bed, standing in the kitchen I hear this very loud splash from my tank in the next room.
I look over and my big female ray, about 15", is on the floor flapping around. After a fleeting moment of panic I got a net and bucket. I used the net handle to try and guide her into the bucket. Way too big for that. Go back out into the garage and grab a piece of plywood. Managed to get her about 80% onto the plywood and dump her back in the tank.
All in all probably about 3 minutes out of the tank even though it felt like forever. She was fine & eating this morning.
At first when I looked at her on the floor I just thought there's no way I'm touching her, not gonna happen.
They always look big in the tank, but it's a different kind of big when they're laying on your floor. I only have one space in the back corner that is uncovered so it was pretty shocking. I'm lucky it wasn't 10 minutes later or I would've woken up to a dried out ray!
Anybody else have a ray jump clean out of the tank?
I look over and my big female ray, about 15", is on the floor flapping around. After a fleeting moment of panic I got a net and bucket. I used the net handle to try and guide her into the bucket. Way too big for that. Go back out into the garage and grab a piece of plywood. Managed to get her about 80% onto the plywood and dump her back in the tank.
All in all probably about 3 minutes out of the tank even though it felt like forever. She was fine & eating this morning.
At first when I looked at her on the floor I just thought there's no way I'm touching her, not gonna happen.
They always look big in the tank, but it's a different kind of big when they're laying on your floor. I only have one space in the back corner that is uncovered so it was pretty shocking. I'm lucky it wasn't 10 minutes later or I would've woken up to a dried out ray!
Anybody else have a ray jump clean out of the tank?
