This is me saying good bye

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stranger23

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Well it seems altho i did everything i could think of my baby didnt make it, im so distraught she was only in my life for a short time but she touched me deep in my heart i will never forget my baby vega. I hope you all have happy healthy stingrays but this is me saying good bye as my venture has come to a sudden and very sad end :cry: Thank you for all the support and advice you have given me i took it all on board and did everything people suggested sadly it just wasnt enough for vega R.I.P my baby
 
That's how I felt after I lost my adult female henlei too. So I sold my adult male & vowed not to repeat the mistake of not quaranteening newly acquired rays. But time heals all wounds & I got the ray bug again after a year or so.
 
Sorry for your loss. I think most people who keep rays live thru your experience. It's heartbreaking. We swore off rays too several years ago, but just couldn't stay away. Just take some time off and hopefully you will get back into it.
 
I'll tell you something. Never buy the small baby rays. It will never end well unless you know what you are doing. Don't buy a small ray if it's your first stingray. I once bought small 7" rays when I first started keeping them. I lost a total of 4 stingrays b/c of this. I could never get them in prepared foods like pellets or shrimp. THIS
time around I bought two 14" mature marbles from someones tank and not the fish store or importer and its a lot better. They eat shrimp 2 days of being in the tank and are super heathly b/c they are used to the aquarium.
SO in short buy bigger....bigger is always better when it comes to rays. Don't give up on them, just keep going at it, and sorry for the loss of your stingray....
 
AND.... atleast the ray didn't cost you 800-2500bucks.... AND.... I agree with SNOW to an extent, but I had a 5" motoro as my first ray and she died, BUT it was only bc that damn rock fell on her, (the rock is now in about 100 pieces btw) I took some time (about month) and purchased another 3.5in baby motoro from FBF, she is doing just as good as the first one, so what im getting at is find a breeder that you know is taking care of the rays and thats half the battle in its own. Sorry again bud!
 
Whilst I agree to some extent about the small rays it is more down to quality, a wild caught Ray is alive in the breeders tank from birth and they do not lose many from a litter.

I bought my pup in the 4-6 month age bracket and she was fine and eating pellets from day 1. A stressed wild caught retic suffering from the trip and riddled with parasites and then put in an inexperienced fish keepers tank does not stand a chance.

You need to know about keeping water well and rays should be a doodle.

Many try with too small a tank volume and inadequate filtration and no depth of knowledge of proper water quality.

I expect 50% of Ray deaths are partly due to ammonia spikes, uncycled tanks, nitrate poisoning or ph crashes.
 
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