stingray question

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fartie9 said:
Thanks! is it true you have to feed them 4 times a day when you first get them?
BUt the l200 would be moved to my 90 gallon if it became an issue. which he will be moving because the 55 is just temprary till i get the 210 up and running then the 55 is coming down cause i am only allowed two fish tanks.
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I don't know about the rules to ray feedings, if there is a certain amount, but most people feed 2 times a day. But that also is based on how much your ray eats, competition, and it's size. I would probably feed a small ray more often than a larger ray.
 
mshill90 said:
Blood worms won't do anything at all for a ray. I would just 86 them. Krill is great for stingrays. That's my ray's primary food of choice.

I feed my rays- krill, night crawlers, silversides, tilapia.. And my pike eats massivore, so sometimes, they get that as well. I have even fed mine clams, mussels- both out of shell, and even octopus. They eat anything.

I wouldn't keep it at 84 only because at higher rates fish metabolize faster, so you would find that you're feeding a lot. I keep mine at 76, and they are more active than ever. When I first had them in QT however, I did have the water in the 80's. But I gradually decreased it over time.

Fx5's use 50 watts of electricity, so have fun with that. lol. I have Eheims on my ray tank, and the 2 combined don't even use that much. Also, with an fx5 you will need to add more media, and yes, you could put it on another tank, but I would just put the tank together, and throw in some seachem stability, and let it do what it needs to do.

Sponge filters are great for Bio. I always keep sponge filters in my tanks (even if not needed) so that if I ever need to start another tank, I have something with bio on it.
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Well maybe getting a stingray after all wont be wise with my jardini having to be in the 82+ from what i have read. I bought 4 liters of seachem matrix bio stuff.
Ill be putting scrubbies or something in the first chamber then the rest will be the matrix so it will be all bio.
Even tho blood worms are really easy and convenient they seem to be very useless in the nutritional value for any fish you plan to grow over 6-7 inches.
And yes if i could afford an eheims i would have bought them.
 
fartie9 said:
Well maybe getting a stingray after all wont be wise with my jardini having to be in the 82+ from what i have read. I bought 4 liters of seachem matrix bio stuff.
Ill be putting scrubbies or something in the first chamber then the rest will be the matrix so it will be all bio.
Even tho blood worms are really easy and convenient they seem to be very useless in the nutritional value for any fish you plan to grow over 6-7 inches.
And yes if i could afford an eheims i would have bought them.
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Eheims are cheaper than Fx5's. lol.
 
mshill90 said:
Eheims are cheaper than Fx5's. lol.
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just check a ehiem pro 3 thats 480 dollars.
I paid 190 plus shipping
filter media was 40 bucks
I agree with you on them being better tho.
 
for cycling, i would forgo the cycle altogether and use something like seachem stability.

i've used cycle in the past, and it is absolute crap. complete waste of money and does not speed up the cycling time.
 
hereticlosmorte said:
for cycling, i would forgo the cycle altogether and use something like seachem stability.

i've used cycle in the past, and it is absolute crap. complete waste of money and does not speed up the cycling time.
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Well from what i have noticed is it did help a bit but i will defiantly check out the seachem stability.
I feel it adds more to the biological organism in the tank than per say speed it up. Just from what i have noticed and all i have really found.
Thanks
 
fartie9 said:
I realize they can grow to upwards of 30inches but thats after a couple of years and who know what i will be doing then. If anything id just return it where i got it for some credit. I mostly would like to just experience taking care of one and would be something id like to show off to some of my friends. Just for fun
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If that is your mind set, don't even bother getting a ray...
 
2 ft wide tank will soon be too cramped for rays .
Go for 3 foot if you can . Must give them space to turn around without restriction.

GShock make a good point above.
 
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