Ray Keepers. Pics, ID
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stella
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Originally Posted by mitzel
Stela : A 125 should be fine for a single ray.
thanx that gives me a little peace of mind. The thing is, I had planned my aggressive setup before she came along. I wanted the porcupine puffer ( btw I have a small one quarantined right now cause he's not eating), tangs, a picasso trigger, maybe a panther grouper, and an emperor angel if everything went OK with the others. But now that I have the ray, I've been reading that puffers can nip at them, and triggers too. I'm not sure what to do. The ray is sooo cute, she's like my little baby
Stela : A 125 should be fine for a single ray.
thanx that gives me a little peace of mind. The thing is, I had planned my aggressive setup before she came along. I wanted the porcupine puffer ( btw I have a small one quarantined right now cause he's not eating), tangs, a picasso trigger, maybe a panther grouper, and an emperor angel if everything went OK with the others. But now that I have the ray, I've been reading that puffers can nip at them, and triggers too. I'm not sure what to do. The ray is sooo cute, she's like my little baby
cartman101
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Originally Posted by mitzel
CARTMAN thats my 125 before I started turning it in to a reef. Unfortunatly I was like everybodyelse and jumped from FW right in to sharks and ray's . Sharky died one night for no aparent reason. The water quality was great and I had no problems with anything else in the tank. She was eatting very good and was active. and a few weeks later we came home and julies the cortez ray had gone carpet surfing while we were gone. LFS said rays wernt jumpers so I didn't worry about not having a lid.
Stela : A 125 should be fine for a single ray.
I do plan on trying again in the spring with an agressive tank most likely a 210 or bigger. But I'm not too sure about a shark again. at least not untill I get some good experiance under my belt.
Rays are jumpers! Its to bad your ray and shark died
You should try it again later.
CARTMAN thats my 125 before I started turning it in to a reef. Unfortunatly I was like everybodyelse and jumped from FW right in to sharks and ray's . Sharky died one night for no aparent reason. The water quality was great and I had no problems with anything else in the tank. She was eatting very good and was active. and a few weeks later we came home and julies the cortez ray had gone carpet surfing while we were gone. LFS said rays wernt jumpers so I didn't worry about not having a lid.
Stela : A 125 should be fine for a single ray.
I do plan on trying again in the spring with an agressive tank most likely a 210 or bigger. But I'm not too sure about a shark again. at least not untill I get some good experiance under my belt.
Rays are jumpers! Its to bad your ray and shark died
cartman101
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Originally Posted by mitzel
CARTMAN thats my 125 before I started turning it in to a reef. Unfortunatly I was like everybodyelse and jumped from FW right in to sharks and ray's . Sharky died one night for no aparent reason. The water quality was great and I had no problems with anything else in the tank. She was eatting very good and was active. and a few weeks later we came home and julies the cortez ray had gone carpet surfing while we were gone. LFS said rays wernt jumpers so I didn't worry about not having a lid.
Stela : A 125 should be fine for a single ray.
I do plan on trying again in the spring with an agressive tank most likely a 210 or bigger. But I'm not too sure about a shark again. at least not untill I get some good experiance under my belt.
HOLD UP!!! I can see the shark has red marks on his side! He probably swam and hit rocks at night time. What grade sand did you use??
CARTMAN thats my 125 before I started turning it in to a reef. Unfortunatly I was like everybodyelse and jumped from FW right in to sharks and ray's . Sharky died one night for no aparent reason. The water quality was great and I had no problems with anything else in the tank. She was eatting very good and was active. and a few weeks later we came home and julies the cortez ray had gone carpet surfing while we were gone. LFS said rays wernt jumpers so I didn't worry about not having a lid.
Stela : A 125 should be fine for a single ray.
I do plan on trying again in the spring with an agressive tank most likely a 210 or bigger. But I'm not too sure about a shark again. at least not untill I get some good experiance under my belt.
HOLD UP!!! I can see the shark has red marks on his side! He probably swam and hit rocks at night time. What grade sand did you use??
cartman101
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Originally Posted by stella
Mine was more of a rescue mission. My Mom bought it for me because they had her at the lfs in a really small tank with more stuff in it and she had like blood stains under her body. Someone there wanted to buy her, but he had a 20g tank
. I know 125g is small for them, but it's much better than a 20g. She's been with me for two weeks now and looks much, much better. I'm already searching for someone that has like a 300g tank setup, I know she can't stay in my 125g for a long time
I gotta hand it to you, VERY nice ray you have bought!! I belive a 125gal is fine for one ray, people say they get like 2ft disc width, they dont, more like 15-17in! They do get 2ft long max
Mine was more of a rescue mission. My Mom bought it for me because they had her at the lfs in a really small tank with more stuff in it and she had like blood stains under her body. Someone there wanted to buy her, but he had a 20g tank
I gotta hand it to you, VERY nice ray you have bought!! I belive a 125gal is fine for one ray, people say they get like 2ft disc width, they dont, more like 15-17in! They do get 2ft long max
mitzel
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oh most definatly I will try again. The LFS employes some real winners. they know about as much about fish keeping as astrophysics. I didn't realize how little they knew untill it was too late. When I first started SW , I asked how the skimmer(asm g-3) went together and how it worked , they tore the boxes apart looking for instructions which I had already looked for. anyways I ended up bringing it home and figuring it out . Simmple as could be once I had it and was looking at it next to the sump. They also told me they would have to order in feeder pigs for me to feed my shark.
When I told them I needed a lid for my tank they told me they didn't carry lids but they had some nice canopies at 400 bucks.
this is the same store that tried to sell me a triger with cloudy eyes and told me they don't have time to keep good water quality in there tanks , and that the cloudyness would go away once I took it home and put it in my tank.
this is the same store that tried to sell me a triger with cloudy eyes and told me they don't have time to keep good water quality in there tanks , and that the cloudyness would go away once I took it home and put it in my tank.
mitzel
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I feel your pain.
I have an emerald crab thats headed for the sump if he doesn't shape up, he has taken chunks out of everything that gets close to him this last couple days . 
he pulled my feather duster out of the sand and drug it in to the rocks took three swipes at the CCstar and was going after the damsels in the rocks. but back on the subject the ray will be an interesting addition to the tank they are fun to watch.
he pulled my feather duster out of the sand and drug it in to the rocks took three swipes at the CCstar and was going after the damsels in the rocks. but back on the subject the ray will be an interesting addition to the tank they are fun to watch.
unleashed
Active Member
Originally Posted by mitzel
I feel your pain.
I have an emerald crab thats headed for the sump if he doesn't shape up, he has taken chunks out of everything that gets close to him this last couple days . he pulled my feather duster out of the sand and drug it in to the rocks took three swipes at the CCstar and was going after the damsels in the rocks. but back on the subject the ray will be an interesting addition to the tank they are fun to watch.
I can relate to that completely hubby wanted wrasses so he purchased a small dragon wrasees then a larger lunear wrasse the lunear nips the dragans tail almost completly off so i put him into a different tank he was 4 inches w/o tial so i figured hed be safe from my 6 in vol lion.well I was wrong.lets just say JR wasn't hungry for breakfast that morning
I feel your pain.
he pulled my feather duster out of the sand and drug it in to the rocks took three swipes at the CCstar and was going after the damsels in the rocks. but back on the subject the ray will be an interesting addition to the tank they are fun to watch.I can relate to that completely hubby wanted wrasses so he purchased a small dragon wrasees then a larger lunear wrasse the lunear nips the dragans tail almost completly off so i put him into a different tank he was 4 inches w/o tial so i figured hed be safe from my 6 in vol lion.well I was wrong.lets just say JR wasn't hungry for breakfast that morning