Hey guys, sadly my 5" wide reticulated stingray died over a week ago. I kept him in a 120 If you want all the details go to my first thread.> http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...-and-I-feel-like-complete-garbage-PLEASE-HELP I would also like to thank EVERYONE on this thread for their help 
. Anyways here's the situation, I fed him some blackworms and all my other fish (my Kelberi pbass some nightcrawlers and my Tiger oscar and two 7" goldfish cichlid pellets) And about 5/4 hours later he starts swimming to the top of the tank furiously and when he reached the top sometimes he'd float like a carpet, and it almost looked as if he was trying to escape the tank (he looked REALLY stressed), then I calmed him down to the bottom and he was breathing heavily and a couple minutes later he stopped and started having muscle spasms in his tail and mouth and then he sadly died. tankmates and temperature are already ruled out if you read the thread. So anyways After 2 water changes adding up to 35% (after he died and while he was freaking out) and two days later I did a nitrate test with a $50 test kit and it always measured 0.2 at highest and lower, (you could barely see a change in the water colour after tow minutes). I might as well tell you my filtration set up as well, a fluval 406 canister rared at 100 gallons, and two tetra HOB filters rated at 70 gallons each, The GPH rate is 1083GPH. Also my water was about 86 degrees. And now the critical part, I searched up the effects of ammonia poisoning in fish and it seemed very similar to what my stingray was doing (swimming to top of aquarium furiously and he might have been gasping for air). But the only thing that baffles me is wouldn't there be high levels of nitrates if there was any ammonia? Would only a 35% water change/substrate vacuum get rid of all the ammonia? And if so I don't really have the money or space to get a sump and definitely not the money to get a Fluval FX5 or FX6, so would a 1150gph powerhead and ,maybe some Java ferns solve my problem? The powerhead is a Hydor coralia evolution 1050/1150 GPH Circulation pump. PLEASE HELP I want to plan on getting another ray but not until I'm sure the environment is appropriate for it! THANKS IN ADVANCE
Also here's a video of him eating black worms right out of my hand LITERALLY HOURS before he died....
[video=youtube;3KrgnSbntYs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KrgnSbntYs[/video]
. Anyways here's the situation, I fed him some blackworms and all my other fish (my Kelberi pbass some nightcrawlers and my Tiger oscar and two 7" goldfish cichlid pellets) And about 5/4 hours later he starts swimming to the top of the tank furiously and when he reached the top sometimes he'd float like a carpet, and it almost looked as if he was trying to escape the tank (he looked REALLY stressed), then I calmed him down to the bottom and he was breathing heavily and a couple minutes later he stopped and started having muscle spasms in his tail and mouth and then he sadly died. tankmates and temperature are already ruled out if you read the thread. So anyways After 2 water changes adding up to 35% (after he died and while he was freaking out) and two days later I did a nitrate test with a $50 test kit and it always measured 0.2 at highest and lower, (you could barely see a change in the water colour after tow minutes). I might as well tell you my filtration set up as well, a fluval 406 canister rared at 100 gallons, and two tetra HOB filters rated at 70 gallons each, The GPH rate is 1083GPH. Also my water was about 86 degrees. And now the critical part, I searched up the effects of ammonia poisoning in fish and it seemed very similar to what my stingray was doing (swimming to top of aquarium furiously and he might have been gasping for air). But the only thing that baffles me is wouldn't there be high levels of nitrates if there was any ammonia? Would only a 35% water change/substrate vacuum get rid of all the ammonia? And if so I don't really have the money or space to get a sump and definitely not the money to get a Fluval FX5 or FX6, so would a 1150gph powerhead and ,maybe some Java ferns solve my problem? The powerhead is a Hydor coralia evolution 1050/1150 GPH Circulation pump. PLEASE HELP I want to plan on getting another ray but not until I'm sure the environment is appropriate for it! THANKS IN ADVANCE Also here's a video of him eating black worms right out of my hand LITERALLY HOURS before he died....
[video=youtube;3KrgnSbntYs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KrgnSbntYs[/video]
