SUBSTRATE - First Hand Experience Only Poll. All Who Apply Please Participate!

[CrAzYNeSs]

Hello everyone,

PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BEFORE VOTING! Thank you.

I want to see if substrate is the cause of a lot of bacterial or fungal issues in a ray tank. Here is the poll.

Please be honest when participating in this poll. I am not interested in your opinion during this poll, but only straight fact and observations from past FIRST hand experience. To vote please meet this requirement.

Have had the ray(s) in their tanks for more than 6 mo. with the same substrate or lack there of.

Hopefully by the end of this poll, we will have some answers.

 

[CrAzYNeSs]

Poll will last for 7 days from today. At the end of the poll I will do my best to tally up all relevant votes and remove irrelevant ones. I will make a reply concluding these findings.

 

[coeus]

i have only had my rays in tank since august, so i didnt vote as its not 6mo yet, but i have most of the bottom covered with http://www.marinedepot.com/Caribsea...avel_Substrate-CaribSea-CS0832-FWPCPG-vi.html

just enough for the rays to sift through and hide in if they like, i havent had anytype of disease outbreak in my tank yet

 

[turkeyboy85]

i had sand in my tank had an outbrake and nowim bare bottom all the way!!!

 

[CrAzYNeSs]

i had sand in my tank had an outbrake and nowim bare bottom all the way!!!

Haha, I think you would belong in the 'I have/had substrate but had a disease outbreak' not "Other"

Awesome... I hope we get more votes. I would make the statistics stronger. Thanks guys.

 

[joey02]

Bare bottom.. no problems, ever.

 

[andersp90]

So far, the pole is showing that there is no diffrence.

Not that surprising.

 

[Vidar-Alexander]

Fine sand in all my ray tanks since i started with rays, for over four years ago. No problem, ever.
But i also have "Eartheaters" Geophagus with my rays, and they also do a good cleaning job with the sand.

 

[CrAzYNeSs]

Amazing findings so far, current standings in the polls really do indicate that substrate or bare tank are pretty much tied. Unless some real drastic changes are to occur we can probably conclude that whether to use substrate is PURELY preference.

Guess the best thing to do is to complete a strict quarantine before introduction into any tank.

 

[Kolossus]

I voted other. I've had both but the only problems I had with rays were when they were new and wild caught. I currently keep a very thin layer of pool filter sand, which typically translates to half sand, half bare bottom...But I've gone back and forth.

I did have an instance a few years ago when I went out of town, my neighbors were supposedly feeding my fish, came back four days later and all three of my rays and a couple other fish were dead Needless to say, I took out all the sand and never asked my neighbor to watch my fish again as her response was, 'I didn't even know they were dead."