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I guess the only thing I can do now is get my well water tested. Temp is good, O2 levels should be fine...and no he hasn't pooped. I've not seen the others do that either come to think of it, but they're still eating and acting fine.
This morning he's still bouncing up and down. I don't recall but he has done that since day one, just that he'd stop and eat. Now he's not stopping to eat.
 
I decided to pull the filter material and do a 70% water change. After that was complete, I went immediately to petsmart to get more of the filter material that I had been using. When I got home he was swimming on the bottom and acting normal, also his color is better. Time will tell. If things still appear to be "better" I will do another partial water change before I leave for work tonight. Very frustrating. Its easy to panic and get lost on what to do when you don't have much experience and can't see what's in the water that is causing the problem.

Does anyone need 160sq ft of air filter material? :confused:
 
Just so everyone knows, I did some more research on the filter material I had purchased. Though I was told when I ordered it that it did not have the tack adhesive on it, my wife actually pulled the packing slip off the box tonight and they sent me the stuff that does have it on. This is all my fault and I hope somewhere somehow someone can learn from my mistake. At this point all the rays are on the bottom and moving around some but did not eat this evening. I did equivelant of 90-100% water changes today and will do another smaller one in the morning if they're still alive. I am hoping the fact that he stopped bobbing up and down with the first major water change is a GOOD sign and not that he had given up. I'm sick to my stomach and have been up all day...and now work all night.

Has anyone else done something stupid like this and had their rays live?
 
I have done some silly things in my days but I think I learned most of my tough lessons before I started keeping rays. I lost 2 black aros and several other fish in a power outage once now I always have battery powered air pumps ready to go.

I am glad you got to the bottom of it and I hope everyone makes a full recovery for you. This is why I am always so paranoid about materials I use in my aquarium

If your not still learning something in this hobby your doing it wrong
 
For the few of you that may actually be following this thread, Loki finally ate a fat little piece of baby nightcrawler this morning. Not a lot, but a start. Everyone in the tank is acting 200% better, color is good, activity is good. Phew....now I can relax a little. :)
 
Good job checking all problems and working gem down to nothing. Yes ray keepers can b paranoid and over picky, but a lot of times it's for a good reason. Keep up the water changes to get rid of any residual chemicals, might even try carbon for a bit, I know it will remove certain chemicals. Hopefully everything works out for you. (and yes one time I put in a grounding probe and attached the socket part without the ground part n threw it in my tank. Instantly my fish freaked out and you could feel the fuzzy current in the water but no harm)
 
Well done in finding the problem. Glad to hear things are looking better.
 
Glad they are doing better.
 
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