How many tigs have you gone through?

[Deathcurl]

Nah...The tap is pretty constant in the neutral range. It's the buffering capacity. My water here crashes hard for no apparent reason although my setup has been pretty stable since I added a boatload of crushed coral....Last tig I lost was about a year ago, but I've been a little bit gunshy to try another one. Maybe one day, haha.

EDIT:

To add, it wasn't the bio load that caused the ph dips either. The tigs I had all were kept separately in a growout tank. Everything would be fine, then BAM....belly up the next day.

 

[Deathcurl]

LOL....I have a green thumb when it comes to rays .

 

[rumblesushi]

Deathcurl - have you tried a KDF/carbon filter to filter all the crap from your tap water?

I live in Spain now and the water here is terrible, if you drink it from the tap all you can taste is metal and chlorine. My fish were not doing great, so i got one of those filters. M|L has something similar too.

They are damn good, a few months of heavy water changes on a 190 and a 60 and still no trace of chlorine or metals.

 

[redtailfool]

try it again.. they look awesome when they put on some size. definitely one of my
favorite catfish.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

still working one getting one, one day....

 

[DeLgAdO]

and to think you can keep flower rays with ease.

 

[Deathcurl]

Wes is a smartypants .

I'll try again someday...I'll look into the tap filtration rumblesushi.

 

[DiXoN]

i have had 2 now

no 1 lasted 4 days and was killed by asian arowana and was around 6''
no 2 lasted 9 or so months and killed by heatwave and was 12''

 

[redtailfool]

I have dixon and deathcurl on this list. Two people that i think takes good care of their fish .
Really, i dont know why we have topics like this. Agree Joe ?

 

[Pleco-nation]

I have 1 now about 7 mounths doing great but is being a pain to get off feeders, still small caint wait for him to start a growth spurt!