I have a retic stingray at about 6 or 7" living contently in a 55gal until he grows a little bit. He is nice and fat and healthy. Well here's the thing. We just acquired a 100 gal with a little more floor space than what he has now. The question being, should I move him even though he has plenty of room in the 55 for now and he is healthy. It's kind of a "if it aint broken, dont fix it" kind of thing. I want him to have even more room so he can grow more but I know how hard it is to keep retics healthy and I don't want him to randomly die (which they are known for) Let me know what you guys think!
Should I move him?
- Thread starter bahamaqt00
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I do not really know much about stingrays but in years of keeping other fish, I would say moving him shouldn't bother him to much as long as you cycle the 100 gallon and the water has the same parameters it should be fine.
but I would wait for some experienced ray keepers to chime in before I did anything.
but I would wait for some experienced ray keepers to chime in before I did anything.
If you keep all of the parameters the same (i.e. use the old water) and move over the filters then it should be up and running straight away.
Bigger is always better (as my wife always says LOL)
Bigger is always better (as my wife always says LOL)
Just Toby;4169705; said:
We we could only use about 20 gallons of the old water and we couldn't move over the filters as there is still going to be fish living in the 55. I agree bigger is always better LOL, but I just don't want to have a sudden death. This is the first retic (out of only two I guess) that I have been sucessful with. I just don't want anything bad to happen.
If you can only bring 20g over then don't move him yet. If he is fine where he is just let him be. By the time he outgrows the 55g you can just move him up to the real tank you had planned for him. When a ray is still young moving them could stress them out a lot more than what would cause a large ray to stress out. Moving may result in the ray not eating again. I know this b/c I moved my flower stingray once from a 90g to a 135g. I even took 90g of the old water and put it into the new tank but still the stingray stopped eating and died 3 weeks later, then again flowers are harder to care for then a retic. But all in all just leave him were he be.......
just move the fish with him and take the filters also. its not the old water that will keep him alive its the bb in the filter. thats what is cycled and established. i say just take everything over and taking 20 gal is just like doing a big water change i dont really see the difference. so take everything and go for it a 55 wont last long at all with a retic even. is his tail hitting the back of the tank when his disc is at the front? at 6 or 7" i would assume so.
I agree with jeffers on this one.. Just move the whole works over to the 100.. Then re-set up the 55 later..
I think I will wait for a while. It would be a huge pain to move everything from the 55 to the 100 since it has a lot of plants and I want to separate some of the fish. I want my ray to have the 100 to himself if he gets moved. And no he still has a good couple inches between his tail and the tank if he is stretched. I would definitely be moving him if that was the case.
She stated before that moving the filters over was not an option, hence the reason why I stated to leave the stingray where it be.
Dont wait for the rays tail to touch the tank. The size of the ray and the bio-load a ray produces has more to do with it, than if the rays tail toches the tank.. The larger tank offers a larger water volume for the rays waste to dilute into... the ray also has a lower chance at stunting in the larger tank... move him... dont wait because its alot of work...