SHOULD I BE CONCERNED?!?

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I think your good on the ammonia. Not many people are that quick with pictures of tests lol. Do the water change like suggested. I would do a 50% water change and retest the nitrates. Followed by another water change tomorrow.

What are you running for filtration and media?
 
Silent Bob said:
I think your good on the ammonia. Not many people are that quick with pictures of tests lol. Do the water change like suggested. I would do a 50% water change and retest the nitrates. Followed by another water change tomorrow.

What are you running for filtration and media?
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I will do a water change right now. Filtration is (i believe 40 gallon sump) wet dry filter... filtration is definitely sufficient.
 
I would call the ammonia zero, a large WC is probably the best thing you can do right now. Keeping the lights off and trying to keep it from becoming any more stressed is probably the best thing you can do right now. Hopefully you'll see some improvement soon.
 
Lol. Sufficient but your not sure what it is??
Im sure your aware Rays need the most filtration out of anything then times that by 2. Get use to water changes as it sounds like you need to do them 2 to 3 times more often. Rays seem to almost naturally produce nitrates and if they are normally 40 without the ray they will be 80+always now unless you start doing more water changes. What are you trying to feed him? What was he eating at the pet store? A little of a red belly is probably from transportation so dont worry unless it does not go away. Was the ray kept with fish or alone at the pet store? All this information will help?

Dont worry too much though. They can go weeks without eating if they are already fat. As long as you feed it and provide tons of fresh water you will be alright. But lets get you going.


messesb52 said:
I will do a water change right now. Filtration is (i believe 40 gallon sump) wet dry filter... filtration is definitely sufficient.
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DIDYSIS said:
Lol. Sufficient but your not sure what it is??
Im sure your aware Rays need the most filtration out of anything then times that by 2. Get use to water changes as it sounds like you need to do them 2 to 3 times more often. Rays seem to almost naturally produce nitrates and if they are normally 40 without the ray they will be 80+always noe unless you start doing more water changes. What are you trying to feed him? What was he eating at the pet store? A little of a red belly is probably from transportation so dont worry unless it does not go away. Was the ray kept with fish or alone at the pet store? All this information will help?

Dont worry too much though. They can go weeks without eating if they are already fat. As long as you feed it and provide tons of fresh water you will be alright. But lets get you going.






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I just did a 35% water change and got the nitrates down to about 30ppm. The reason I say the filtration is “sufficient” is because I made this tank specially for rays about a year ago and did lots of research on the filtration and got the filtration that was reccomended by many including people on this forum. Its a wet try filter. The sump is 40 gallons and the pump is 3200 rpm if that helps. The ray was alone at the fish store. I tried feeding him silversides and bloodworms: what they were feeding him at the fish store, and he MIGHT have been nibbling on both... i could be wrong its hard to tell... however he still isn’t fully eating. I plan on getting frozen prawn tomorrow, thats what I saw him eating at the store however they said to feed bloodworms and silversides also.
 
Raymann88 said:
You mentioned he is the only fish in the tank. Where did the other fish go? What fish were in there before and for how long?


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A few months ago my marble motoro died after about a year of having him from ammonia which I was told was caused by a low ph (6 range. I have since raised my PH to 7.0 and added crushed coral to the sump. I also had a peacock bass and an earth eater and over the summer the bass tried eating the earth eater and it got stuck in his throat and both fish died.
 
messesb52 said:
A few months ago my marble motoro died after about a year of having him from ammonia which I was told was caused by a low ph (6 range. I have since raised my PH to 7.0 and added crushed coral to the sump. I also had a peacock bass and an earth eater and over the summer the bass tried eating the earth eater and it got stuck in his throat and both fish died.
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The lower the pH, the less lethal ammonia is FYI.
 
If the tank was uninhabited for a while w/o any build up of detritus to feed you bacteria you may have lost your cycle, resulting in ammonia buildup from there being nothing to give your bacteria "food"

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