first ray dead...just would not eat????
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Ammonia .25/Nitrates 0 = some type of Bio Die Off or recycling. Coupled with Retics are notorious
for dieing off. Alot of people by them as their first ray cause they are cheap, but in reality they
are not a beginner ray.
Sorry for your loss.
for dieing off. Alot of people by them as their first ray cause they are cheap, but in reality they
are not a beginner ray.
Sorry for your loss.
agree with shadow.... Nitrate should not be zero... and Test strips suck, a fella on here had a ray and the ammonia level read .25 on test strips, but when he took a sample to a lfs it was like 8.0 or something crazy like that... also COULD be toxic gas pockets in the sand... I had sand b4 and the deepest part was only like 1/2" sand, i did 30% wc's every week, and still the sand under the top layer turned black and started smelling really bad like rotten eggs as i was sifting it around, so i took the sand out, luckily my ray did not get harmed, but it could happen.
Sorry bout ur loss bud
Sorry bout ur loss bud
So when keeping rays with sand we should sift the sand often to avoid toxic gas forming? Sorry if I thread-jacked I don't wanna lose my future ray...
So what is a proper reading for nitrates?
And sorry for your loss bro...
So what is a proper reading for nitrates?
And sorry for your loss bro...
not more than 50ppm FOR SURE 15-25 i would think. Not 100% but I have been told it should never be truly 0, in a safe way... your BB takes away the ammonia which you get nitrites from that, then the other bb takes the nitrites out, then nitrates start to form, and there isnt bb to take that waste out... thats where WC's come in, but doing a 25-30% weekly wc wont take them all out but usually keeps them down to a suitable ppm...
Correct, 1 small ray in a 150gal. tank cant sift through all the sand in the tank, so if you have a spot in the tank that doesn't get circulation, or under a piece of wood, the sand will actually for toxic gas pockets there, and and fishwaste or uneaten food will sit there, and sometimes start to rot/mold on the sand and form the gases in the sand.
Correct, 1 small ray in a 150gal. tank cant sift through all the sand in the tank, so if you have a spot in the tank that doesn't get circulation, or under a piece of wood, the sand will actually for toxic gas pockets there, and and fishwaste or uneaten food will sit there, and sometimes start to rot/mold on the sand and form the gases in the sand.
Sorry for your loss, it always sucks when you lose one; I agree with throwing those test strips away; I use the liquid test kits and have an American Marine ph monitoring system that gives me instant ph readings constantly; my water holds around 6.0 or so and my marbled loves it;
