Acclimating overseas imported stingrays
- Thread starter Brandon Beck
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Live arrival to vancouver guaranteed. The short flight from there to calgary is on me.
My transhipper will be changing water and re oxygenate in vancouver before shipping to calgary for me.
Nice rays! I did not know there were other specialist ray transshippers in Vancouver operating at the moment. I have imported hundreds of rays to Canada and shipped hundreds to Calgary from Vancouver. I'm sure your rays will be fine. I recommend letting the rays sit for 30 minutes in the tank on arrival to adjust temperature. I usually remove 750 ml of water from a bag and replace with 750 ml of tank water (use a yoghurt container). Repeat three times, 10 minutes between each time. 60 minutes total process time, then release (use net, don't add the dirty bag water to your tank). Are you shipping AC or Westjet? Make sure your shipper uses triple heat packs. You could ask them to heat the rays on arrival in Vancouver for 30 minutes before doing the transship; the heat packs do a much better job keeping bags warm if the bags are already warm. Heat packs on their own won't raise the temperature of cold water bags. Are you rewatering and reoxygenating on arrival in Vancouver? If so, I'd recommend using Seachem Amguard. Good luck!
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Yes, water change and re oxygenate before shipped to calgary.Disregard my question on rewater/reoxygenating as you answered it in your OP
Do you add prime into bag water immediately after opening?
Im trying to weigh the best option either acclimating like you are saying or just temp adjust and straight into tank to avoid any ammonia burn
Assuming your rays are properly shipped from Thailand, and properly rewatered and reoxygenated in Vancouver, you should not have any problems with ammonia burn on arrival in Calgary. I'm Theo btw
We were chatting about rays a while back. I think the transshippers you are working (both Thailand and Vancouver) should be fine too (know them of course, raykeeping and transshipping in Canada is a small world). Good luck! Please post up pics at https://www.facebook.com/groups/365263390954173 as I'm sure ray and aro keepers across Canada will be interested to see your fish.