Biggest mistakes you made?

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fishguy306 said:
I first kept rays about 10+ years ago before taking a break for school and life in general. Had a couple of motoros that would attack every fish in the tank, lost a lot of nice fish to them lol.

I'm back in it now and had my potentially worst mistake yet. I heat my system off of my water heater, pex coils in the sump. Well the temp probe came out of the water without me noticing, over the course of about 24 hours it raised the water temp up to the high 90s, highest temp I saw was 98*. Reason I noticed was because the rays weren't very active and weren't eating much. So I started doing my checks and realized how warm the water was. Found a second thermometer, dropped it in and saw what it was at.

That one scared me a lot, I thought I had killed my P14s. They were off for a few days, not eating a whole lot, but they are back to normal now, eating like pigs and terrorizing the other fish in the tank.
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Lol. You are lucky bro. Wow that's amazing that they survived in that temperature
 
After having a plywood tank leak I opted to transfer 4 of my rays into 2 black stock tanks in the garage while I drained and repaired. Didnt inspect my canister and didn't have my power supplies looped/lifted off of the ground. The output hose busted from one filter, causing 90% of the water to drain, shorted out my surge protector causing the other canister to quite, along with air and heat, temps dropped to the 70s by the next morning when I went to check. My male jag, female tiger, and smaller female jag all died...Only one that made it was a basic motoro...
 
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mscamp02 said:
After having a plywood tank leak I opted to transfer 4 of my rays into 2 black stock tanks in the garage while I drained and repaired. Didnt inspect my canister and didn't have my power supplies looped/lifted off of the ground. The output hose busted from one filter, causing 90% of the water to drain, shorted out my surge protector causing the other canister to quite, along with air and heat, temps dropped to the 70s by the next morning when I went to check. My male jag, female tiger, and smaller female jag all died...Only one that made it was a basic motoro...
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Wow that's horrible. I'm sorry that happened to you. Amazing the motoro survived.
 
Zbosco13 said:
yeah, even when she was 5-6" she pounced our discus, thus why we no longer have discus. never actually killed one, but literally everything i put with her she tries to kill. Geos, severums, flagtails, discus, doesnt matter. If it swims, it dies.
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Mine have killed countless fish including plecos.

They just killed my favorite Butterfly Koi that was over 12 inches.... Grrrrrrr
 
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Buying a salvini, little monster killed 3 danios in QT and harasses everyone in the 70. I'm selling him this weekend
 
Hendre said:
Buying a salvini, little monster killed 3 danios in QT and harasses everyone in the 70. I'm selling him this weekend
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Didn't realise this was for stingrays. now THAT was my mistake
 
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