Lol and sponge filters are useless with rays and their bio load. Plus one 18" ray can create as much if not more bio than the fish u got rid of. And if I were u I would take the gars out! Too many stories read that gars take a bite out of a ray
Save my female henlei!
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His power went out obviously something had a spike or a swing. And he has plenty of fish keeping experience.anyways do the sores look they are getting worse? If the power went out at my place i would be I'n sum hot water and most likely i would loss all 9 of my rays.
I did what I could and this isn't my first fish bowl. I really don't think you are right with the sponges moving water and adding air and I have my pond matrix in laundry bags so I can clean it, I don't think the ammonia spiked without my catching it. I've checked water more than once this week
I was out of power for 12 houres, never had any spikes of any sorts. Turned it back on, everything worked like a charm. No rays lost, no fish lost, everything as normal. 24 houres tho, is long. But my experience is that 12 should go. I dont think 24h would kill _all_ but alot.. I feel sorry for your loss!
Come on guys.... lets help him fix this and not make the situation worse for him
Ajsmith apparently can't get his hands on ine or cant afford a hen. He gave me ***** when I bought mine, then sold out of the fish hobby a couple months later. It doesn't matter how much the ray cost, bryan is trying.his best for what he's working with. Not all your BB died off in 24 hrs, some, maybe most did. I have BB grows to support the bio load, so when you add a new.fish, there is always some.time taken to compensate for the higher level of waste. Unless your a scientist and have all that technology, I.don't think you can get it to.an exact science. I've had ammonia spikes when adding large rays, but the jump was minimal and I noticed nothing like youve got going on. Check your water everyday and work accordingly and keep searching for your answer, theres plenty of great guys on here to help out. Just ignore tge jerks.
Db- that's exactly what I say. No way all of his BB does off in 24 hrs and like I said, unless you're a scientist w access to more than just Google lol, you can't really give an exact time.
I had a 48 hour power outtage back when I first started keeping rays. If all the BB dies within 24 hours of power going out surely I would have lost everything. All I did was waterchanges with warm water every 4-6 hours to keep temp up. NO water or airpumps that ran off batteries. I ran nothing but canisters and HOBs at the time. Threw the bio from the HOBs into the tank and that was litterally it. I didn't loose anything, and I had 10 tanks up, many with sensative Characins. Power came back on litterally within a half hour of hooking up a generator... lol I believe it was litterally 46 hours with no power. Middle of winter in northern IA.
Most times I've seen ammonia issues it's been peeling, redness, stuff like that.
Possible they could have stirred up some crap in the sand that irritated them then passed?
I'd be happy the lady is doing well......
Be happy with what you have, NOT what you no longer have. Males are cheaper then females....
I know ithis is still fresh, so don't wanna jump the gun, but just saying, if the time comes I have a cheap male Hen if you want another male for your female.
Hope you get to the bottom of this, OR it just passes and you move on. Sometimes with rays it almost seems easiest to just roll with the punches rather then tear yourself up overanalyzing. Don't ask how I know this.... lol
Most times I've seen ammonia issues it's been peeling, redness, stuff like that.
Possible they could have stirred up some crap in the sand that irritated them then passed?
I'd be happy the lady is doing well......
Be happy with what you have, NOT what you no longer have. Males are cheaper then females.... I know ithis is still fresh, so don't wanna jump the gun, but just saying, if the time comes I have a cheap male Hen if you want another male for your female.
Hope you get to the bottom of this, OR it just passes and you move on. Sometimes with rays it almost seems easiest to just roll with the punches rather then tear yourself up overanalyzing. Don't ask how I know this.... lol
Definatly not tryen to start trouble at all guys want to help for sure with all that happened to him & the tank in that time period i think there had to be some sort of a spike of amonia not to mention the stress envolved to the fish with different things happening in those days you can bet that did not help matters i am sorry if what i said was taken as purely trying to put him down ..Personally the key to fishkeeping is water water water and some more clean water no secret great food great water IMO and it has worked for me maybe not for everybody but that has been my experience HUGH.....
