turkeyboy85;4507400; said:
What is your PH at? You you could have had a giant PH swing as well..... Just throwing out ideas.
I don't even test for PH. What could be the probable cause of a giant swing?
Just Toby;4507427; said:
I would not rule out anything, I think the slight about geniuses is a little unfair as having an open mind is a sure sign of wisdom.
You are right. I humbly apologize to the community for my rashness.
I guess I'd attribute it to guilt, mourning and stress from the death. I feel very bad as it is, thus my self-deprecating title, there was no need for him to have rubbed it in my face that it was my fault.
I would suggest that people be more considerate when posting messages after an owner suffers a death.
BTW, I don't use rainwater, my pond is indoor. When I say I wait for the drums to be empty before I do a WC, it means the drums are still full of pond water that the maids still have to use to water the garden. When I do WC, I pump the pond water to 500G drums outside and replace with water from the faucet.
skynoch;4507367; said:
There is something else you are probably missing as even if the food was rotten I don't believe you would see rotting on the rays disc from bad food. Your test kit may be bad, you may get ammonia spikes after feeding if your bio isn't up to snuff, your bottom may not have been cleaned often enough, your rays in bad water long term could slowly breakdown thier immune system causing secondary problems, your filters may be dirty causing problems... just some thoughts on what could have killed the ray or brought it to the point where bad food might have done it.
Thanks for the sensible inputs. I believe my bio is ample considering I have two tall towers with a stocklist that is very minimal considering it is 1,000G. I have a bare bottom and is cleaned with net every time there is dirt seen by the naked eye.
My water was pristine and I only slackened the last two months. Although the days following the rotten fillet incident, poop was overly abundant--am not too sure why that would be the case, but ammonia might have spike too.
I believe the rotten fillet might have caused the immune system of the ray to breakdown and led it to being overly sensitive to the "poor" water.
I did another monster change this AM, before I did the Nitrate was around 40ppm. After the change it should be less than 20ppm I think.
All the rest of the fish are okay including the two rays. Everyone's fasting though.
Thanks to everyone for all the inputs, I still have a lot to learn and appreciate all the posts.