please help my pups keep dieing
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Is the baby ray meant to be smack under the bright lights? Sure that can’t be good in a hot tank where they don’t eat. If you have a working divider, why can’t you divide off the left 1 ft for example for the baby?
Just thoughts.
Seems odd your ph is so high. I would remove the conch and monitor to see if you get nearer 7. Do you have any other marine substrate in a filter or sump? Like coral or coral gravel?
Could freeze pop bottles full of water and float them in the tank to try to bring temp down. I also have to sit a fan on top of my tank with a built in led as the led unit heats the tank more than the heater does in summer. Maybe also keep the lights off more.
Just thoughts.
Seems odd your ph is so high. I would remove the conch and monitor to see if you get nearer 7. Do you have any other marine substrate in a filter or sump? Like coral or coral gravel?
Could freeze pop bottles full of water and float them in the tank to try to bring temp down. I also have to sit a fan on top of my tank with a built in led as the led unit heats the tank more than the heater does in summer. Maybe also keep the lights off more.
Sounds to me the babies just are not eating. I agree with some of what is being said. Try other frozen foods. Bloodworms, mysis, brine shrimp all things I've heard baby rays eat. Alot of people seem to be getting stuck on the temp but that seems a recent "issue" as back in December thought April it's what 78-80? And you lost babies then too. So I'd say in the warmer months use a fan across the water and or frozen water bottles to bring the tank temp down. Are there lids on top of the tank? May be able to remove those to allow some evaporative cooling to happen. The baby holding area is probably too close to the lights like someone said. Maybe shut the lights off on that side or refigure out how you are going to keep babies. How are you currently separating the male and female? Maybe do that with the babies next time instead.
We purchased them from a website I can't really remember which one. They came via FedEx they where tinny. We have had them around 4 years maybe 4 1/2.
As far as the temp we will get a fan to place in the canopy. The tank does run a little cooler when it is off. However we really don't have any where else to store it. Also the tank is in the office part of an open concept house so we need the sound damping affect from the canopy. Our light is a corallife t5 that we had form our 125 so its more right in the middle be we will try to reconfigure to put it on one side and the baby on the other. The babies can swim through the slots in the baby gate the we use to separated the parents. They where actually already separated when she delivered this time and we found the babies on the other side of the tank. We will remove the conch shells and see if that brings the PH down. any suggestions on how to get our loaches out of them we moved them in the shell because they will not swim out even when you dip the shell in and out of the water. We live in north east tn so the Marjory of the rock around here is limestone so I think the ph is kinda high overall. I have always heard not to mess with the ph if it was stable so I have never tried peet moss or anything
86 is hot. Saying "oh well, it's hot" isn't really the best solution for these sorts of situations. There are remedies for that outside of unplugging heaters. I'd start with things you can correct and work backwards: diet, stressors, temp, light, until ya figure out the root. Best of luck.
