Pup tanks and drips?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
DB junkie;5153837; said:
So ideal pup setup........ Small tank giant sump? Small tank so they find food easy, yet a giant volume of water for stability. NO DRIP, but rather aged water changed in small regular amounts?
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Sounds like this would be the best way to go. I live in Norway and we have spectacular water quality straight from the tap. Ph7,nitrat 0 , nitrit 0, ammonia 0 kh 0, gh 4, tds 120. Will be intresting to see how this turns out when its my time for some youngsters.

I really hope you figure this one out, so that you can have that great feeling of accomplishment insted of what you feel atm. Keep it up!
 
Tor-Eriik;5153871; said:
Sounds like this would be the best way to go. I live in Norway and we have spectacular water quality straight from the tap. Ph7,nitrat 0 , nitrit 0, ammonia 0 kh 0, gh 4, tds 120. Will be intresting to see how this turns out when its my time for some youngsters.

I really hope you figure this one out, so that you can have that great feeling of accomplishment insted of what you feel atm. Keep it up!
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You also have phenominal heavy metal over there and some VERY LOUD car audio enthusiasts.

Right now the only acomplishment I'm feeling is housing the most overpriced yet underproducing breeding group of Marbles on MFK. The same group that could hold the title for highest mortality rate. Add in the fact that profit is out the window as it will take almost 10 pups to pay for the mon and dad and what does it all add up to?

:cry:

Survey says- the #1 answer is........ BAD IDEA. :irked:
 
I have never ran drips, but to me all that new water all the same with just carbon to dechlorinate it doesn't seem to add up. I was not aware carbon removed chlorine. Even so i wouldn't trust it. Prime is my best friend!! i do LARGE water changes multiple times per week. often times draining and filling at the same time for a couple hours, and i religiously use prime in 2x dosage.

Also, have you thought about that high ph of yours making your ammonia more toxic!?

P.S. Prime removes ammonia, chloramines, and chlorine
 
I hope you do it for yourselfe aswell, not just for the profit. But hell i see that one, when you pay that much for a pair, offcourse you would want them to earn themselfes back like a bonus!

I think you know what to do next time :)
 
I think this is all about the ammonia and the key is no ammonia.

My first thought was chloramine but you need to find a way to testing for it at the tap. If ammonia is coming out f the tap you need to find out if it is there before the dechlorination and I would experiment with dechlorinators too.

I cannot work out why the filters are not removing the ammonia really quickly, maybe this is chloramine and it is holding good bacteria back.

I run a drip with an hma, it is only on for 1 hr per day and drips 30 gals, this has the extra chloramine removal pod as well just in case. I do not have any ammonia and I use different test kits to check regularly and normally have an ammonia alert disc in the sump too.
 
I can't seem to get the profit thing across.....

I am NOT in this for the money. Why the F@#! would I be messing with Marbles IF I was in it for the money?

Marbles are a friggin JOKE from a financial standpoint. Want an uber nice Marble and to BUY it takes $1000. BUT breed that $1000 Marble with another $1000 Marble and guess what you got? A pup that is worth $300. It's the biggest stingray joke of all time. Everyone sees thier own Marbles as nicer then everyone else's, so what they have is worth a small fortune, but what you have ain't worth jack.

I've dealt with this crap from day one and have dealt with some of the shystiest people in the hobby to get what I have today.

At this point $s out the window. I want to fill my tanks with nice Marbles that I bred that I know will stay nice.

It's become obvious that it's a buyer's market so those in the market can buy all them healthy, plump, tough as nails wild caughts.

I will be making more room for pups here because it's become PAINFULLY obvious that this is far too much work to just give the pupos away so unless I'm hurting for $ I'm just gonna plan on keeping them from here on out. Once my tanks are full and all my friends are stocked then maybe things will change. But until I can even keep them alive we don't really have to worry about it.

This guy obviously isn't smart enough to be able to turn a profit breeding rays. Just another bottomless pit to throw hard earned money into..... Just like car audio was. But at least there I got bragging rights for beating the competiton. With rays I just fill up the freezer with frozen trophies of failure.
 
Just Toby;5154631; said:
I think this is all about the ammonia and the key is no ammonia.

My first thought was chloramine but you need to find a way to testing for it at the tap. If ammonia is coming out f the tap you need to find out if it is there before the dechlorination and I would experiment with dechlorinators too.

I cannot work out why the filters are not removing the ammonia really quickly, maybe this is chloramine and it is holding good bacteria back.

I run a drip with an hma, it is only on for 1 hr per day and drips 30 gals, this has the extra chloramine removal pod as well just in case. I do not have any ammonia and I use different test kits to check regularly and normally have an ammonia alert disc in the sump too.
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Did you see the pic of all the tests? There was ammonia on one test one night from cleaning the filter. That's it. There is NO ammonia. Not in the tap not in the drip not in the tanks.
 
DB junkie;5153837; said:
I officially retract the ammonia statement. Really don't think that's the issue.
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