So the last couple of days I've noticed that my female California Ray has been acting "Strange". She normally is a pacer and doesn't stop swimming, but she paces the front of the tank. But in the evenings after the lights go off She will bury in the sand next to the male. The last couple of days she's been very gracefully hovering with her nose out of the water like she is trying to touch the glass lids. he mouth does remain in the water. As soon as I walk up to the tank she starts her I'm hungry swim and seems fine. What the H--- is she doing? My pH is 8.4, Nitrate are high, but it's because of them, temp is 77 ( I can't get it down without a chiller)
Cali Ray with weird swimming behavior
- Thread starter dadsoldtruck
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I could see that if both were doing it. My Male is acting just fine, and stays on the bottom. Neither of them have laboured breathing and from what I've read they actually like temps between 65 and 75. I got the temp down by unplugging the skimmer for a bit and she's still at it. She will everyonce in a while head to the bottom then come right back up.
i have a female that does the same thing at times and other times bury's herself. She glides in the current there from the return pipe.
I have a lot of oxygen and water mixing in my sump, plus the skimmer that puts bubbles back into the sump and the I have 4 return heads, two are spraying the surface and two are spraying down towards the bottom. I'm starting to think she's doing it looking for food.
Oh yes, she still eats, and she acts fine whenever I walk up to the tank (she does her usual back and forth feed me swim). Could it be a mating behavior? I know that all the rays off my coast are mating right now. I'm also thinking maybe something is missing from her diet, when I feed her fish do I leave skin on or take it off?