Christmas day surprise!

[Anderman]

She ate 3 smelts today!! Pups are pouncing on the cut up dew worms already.

That was a close one! I think it's easy to take it for granted sometimes that your water is fine when you are consistent with water changes. If something's wrong though never hurts to check.

Good save!


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By the way, where are you located?


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AB,Canada

Great save! The pups look amazing!


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Thanks and thanks for the help

Congrats and a good story to boot. All look nice but the one in the first pic is looks to have great potential.......

Thanks,been keeping the lights out for the female and pups until they are settled so hence the light colored pups but should darken up like my last one.

Awesome story and congrats.

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Glad to hear all worked out well for you. And nice looking pups also, love the king hen pattern. I was hoping for Christmas Pups but i'm still waiting

Thanks, I may hold a pair back and grow them out a bit this time to see how they look.

Great looking pups Trevor!

So pleased all of this had a happy conclusion, best Christmas present ever I think.

Thanks and thanks for the help.

If it was only high in nitrates how is adding a fx6 going to help? I think you just need to do larger and more frequent water changes.

Tank needs more filtration anyway and I already know it will need more frequent water changes and less feeding. Before it had 4 tank mates and now only one so that will help too.

Congrats on the pups. What was the nitrate reading in the tank and how did it compare to the tank she was in before moving?

Thanks, not at home so I am not sure on the exact measurement but it was high. The tank it came from was way lower but again I don't have the chart to look at the numbers. I am sure the high nitrates came from me overfeeding the ray combined with recently cleaning the fx5,inadequate filtration plus the removal of two 5 gallon pails of substrate. Plus the tank mates were no good for a cleanup crew as it was a goonch,2 odoes and an albino adonis. All were moved out but not as fast as I would have liked.

 

[swedeboy78]

Merry Christmas!


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[FishDog]

Great story to show how tough these little boogers can be. I have had two cases where a ray would not eat for over a month but they were not pregnant. From what I have seen as adults they will lose weight but surprisingly not that much compared to how fast a pup loses weight. Really makes you wonder how long a 8" ray has been neglected when you see a wild one for sale and they are skin and bones. Do they come out of the river like that or is it neglect in the fish houses.

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[MHDevelopments]

Great story to show how tough these little boogers can be. I have had two cases where a ray would not eat for over a month but they were not pregnant. From what I have seen as adults they will lose weight but surprisingly not that much compared to how fast a pup loses weight. Really makes you wonder how long a 8" ray has been neglected when you see a wild one for sale and they are skin and bones. Do they come out of the river like that or is it neglect in the fish houses.

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It's stress/neglect in the fish houses


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[Jobu28]

great story. congrats

 

[jim barry]

Glad it all worked out for you , congratulations on the little ones!