Have you tried simply taking a 40B and stuffing it with sponge - ala:
440g System Setup
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This is what I'm planning to try with mine, but on a 75g. Probably a couple 5" thick blocks of sponge, then a section for a diy algae scrubber.
I had an idea last week to use a dog Kong chewy toy to feed the ray's to give them something to do for a while. I put a piece of frozen shrimp in the Kong and a rock in the ring to sink it. 1 of the rays has been trying to get the shrimp out of the Kong for the past 10 minutes. Seems like a good enrichment activity.
Let us know if he 'learns' how to get it out so the next time it goes faster....
Thank you! I was told they are BD ti crossed with SWC, so they’re kind of a mix of a fewdifferent things like most black rays in the hobby these days.
Also, they just had their 1st pup yesterday which is pretty exciting, I didn’t even know the female was pregnant
They learned how to get the shrimp out pretty quickly, I’m to lazy to keep getting the Kong out of the tank to refill it though so it just sits in there now haha
The pup only lived for about 20 hours after birth unfortunately. It looked like it was born in good health with no defects and not premature. It was the 1st pup for the mom so I wasn’t sure if that had anything to do with it.
I never test my water because I do about 50-60% water change every week, and the fish always look healthy. But I decided to do one after the pup passed. Ammonia and nitrite were 0 but the nitrate was basically through the room, like dark red water in the test vile. So I have a nitrate problem.
I’ve been meaning to change the pump that feeds the Ultima filter for a couple months now and decided I’d open up the ultima and clean the media while I was changing the pump also. I had a Reeflo pump on the ultima but it’s a little noisy for my liking and I wanted a DC pump to cut down on energy costs (picked up a Red Dragon 3, 100w version).
My jaw dropped when I opened up the Ultima. It was absolutely packed to the brim with sand and fish poop. This is 100% the reason my nitrates were sky high.
So if you have an Ultima, I would recommend doing a deep clean every once and a while, completely disassembling it, like people do when they winterize it. Check out the pictures below of how full it was. The media are small black cylinders, similar to K1, you can see them in the pictures in the wheelbarrow. You can also see solid blocks of fish poop haha, it was unreal.
I never test my water because I do about 50-60% water change every week, and the fish always look healthy. But I decided to do one after the pup passed. Ammonia and nitrite were 0 but the nitrate was basically through the room, like dark red water in the test vile. So I have a nitrate problem.
I’ve been meaning to change the pump that feeds the Ultima filter for a couple months now and decided I’d open up the ultima and clean the media while I was changing the pump also. I had a Reeflo pump on the ultima but it’s a little noisy for my liking and I wanted a DC pump to cut down on energy costs (picked up a Red Dragon 3, 100w version).
My jaw dropped when I opened up the Ultima. It was absolutely packed to the brim with sand and fish poop. This is 100% the reason my nitrates were sky high.
So if you have an Ultima, I would recommend doing a deep clean every once and a while, completely disassembling it, like people do when they winterize it. Check out the pictures below of how full it was. The media are small black cylinders, similar to K1, you can see them in the pictures in the wheelbarrow. You can also see solid blocks of fish poop haha, it was unreal.
