i guess i get to join the club

[killarbb]

just wish it was a different club.

got home from work, looked into my 75 grow out tank......there was the male motoro, there was the retic, but i couldnt see the female motoro. then the unwanted happened. found her stuck to the intake on the ac110.


anybody ever have a small ray get stuck to a HOB intake? ray was about 4 inch disk. i have had her for a week.


not sure if she got stuck pre or post mortem.

 

[killarbb]

i guess i forgot to add, ray was eating very well on chopped crawlers and cut up market shrimp. it was captive bred. water parameters

nitrate 20ppm
nitrite 0
ammonia 0
temp came up this week do to the ambient temp rising, but tank temp was 86, i try for 78-80.

did a water change on wendesday, and i fast my fish on thursdays. all seemed well when i looked in on them late last night, and all of the tankmates are ok.



just wish i knew what happened

 

[turkeyboy85]

man that sux! she was a beaut too! I have heard of it before sadly, they like playing in the bubbles and exporing the tank....

 

[skynoch]

There is no way the ray go stuck to your filter before it died. When rays are that small they need to eat 2-3 times a day with no days off. I'm not saying that is the problem but rays even that small are way to powerful to get stuck on that filter. Maybe a ray a couple days old could get stuck. Sorry for your loss but I really think there was another problem.

 

[SCBARTELS]

sorry to hear that man! I know what that feels like to see the fish fine just a few hours before then turn around and find it dead ( or in other rare cases eaten by a catfish!) but seriously..I feel bad for you. Hope the other one keeps going strong. Good luck

 

[Nic]

i think it died before then got stuck to the intake....

 

[jwong1024]

It was probably dead or dying when it got sucked up. Wow didn't know an AC110 was that strong.

 

[DavidW]

why on earth didn't you have a sponge over the intake?