My Christmas Treat

[wuvmybetta]

I never knew they gave live birth, that's so awesome. Congrats on the new addition B)

 

[Mr.September15]

WOW! I never knew you can keep rays in a tank... . Lucky

 

[Seb R]

Ive got them in my 10 gallon community tank at the moment but if they start to breed i'll move them to a 5 gallon breeding tank.


only joking, theyre in a 200 gallon tank with various large catfish and oddballs

Wow I could have a pair of them!!!



oh...

 

[Matty]

thats amazing! are the rays good at defending themselves? I heard that they were very fragile.

 

[Synirr]

They're both gorgeous
Best of luck with breeding them!

 

[CFC]

thats amazing! are the rays good at defending themselves? I heard that they were very fragile.

Rays can defend themselves very well if needs be using their serrated and barbed tails to slash and stab at attackers but fortunately this is a rare occurance. Physically rays are quite tough animals but they are very sensative to water quality and any toxins in their enviroment, as little as 0.1 ppm of ammonia can easily kill them and they dont handle nitrates above 40-50ppm very well at all so an almost military regime of large water changes is needed, they also cannot be treated with any of the commercial aquarium medications (with the exception of melafix and pimafix which are 99% water and 1% natural active ingredient and emulsifier) so if any diseases occur there is very little that can be done for them.

 

[BWBettas]

Nice fish so shouldnt they be livebearers then

 

[Ben]

hey i have 6 of those! They're in my 20g with my common pleco(dont worry ill move him when he gets bigger, but right now he's tiny and the Walmart employee said he only grows to 5 inches!)




Beautiful fish CFC
Is breeding rays easy?
Good luck with it,

DD

 

[*Lucifer*]

wow they are goreous!!! i would love to keep those, but i have six red bellied pirahnas that r my pride an joy, along with my electric blue lobsters!! cant wait to see if they breed!!!

Lucifer

 

[BigC]

Hey CFC,
I have never kept large species of fish before. And you have your fair share of them.
Also in over 25 years of fishkeeping have I ever seen a dealer extract a tankbuster from their stock tanks for a customer. Please furnish me with the info of how this is done. ( Nets. damp cloths )!!!!!!!
I've seen many a Koi carp being netted but those nets would be too large to get into the confinements of a tank.
Regards
BigC

 

[CFC]

The process of netting large fish is just the same as with small fish, only the nets and bags (or box in the case of rays and big cats) are bigger and the person doing the netting gets a lot wetter, and of course there is the chance of getting stabbed or bitten and ending up in the nearest casualty unit.
Actually the guy who caught the ray did a fantastic job, the whole transaction was very stress free with the ray just being gently ushered into the waiting net and then lifted with its tail free of the mesh and gently placed into the poly box. He was so unphased by the whole experience that after an hours drive home and two hours acclimatising he tried to mate with the female within the first 10 minutes in my tank and ate after less than an hour. This morning you wouldnt know he hadnt been living in the tank his whole life and hes already acting like he owns the place.

25 years and no big fish, sounds like its time to splash out on a bigger tank and a pair of rays.

 

[BigC]

25 years and no big fish, sounds like its time to splash out on a bigger tank and a pair of rays.

I once had 100 tanks going in the Fish-House.
Moan, Moan bloody moan from er indoors.can you imagine me asking (yes asking) can I have a tankbuster in the living room when it was er who suggested that I take the fish outside.
There is only one tankbuster that I would be interested in keeping and you would need a tank the size of the whole of a downfloor flat to keep iit in and that is Phractocephalus hemioliopterus.
http/www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/redtcat.htm

 

[CFC]

I know what you mean, we're just buying a house and i have been told by the mrs that there is to be only one tank in the house and that is the brackish tank because it contains her morays, though i have managed to talk her into one of the big 600 litre rena tanks which is now sitting in storage waiting for the move so pleanty of room for a few more biggish fish in there too. Luckily the house comes with a 207 square foot workshop that wont cost too much to convert into a fish house which means loads of space for my tankbusters and a few more

RTC are gorgeous fish but alas grow too large even for me to ever cope with, unless i win the lottery and set up a public aquarium.

 

[funkybodal]

So you didn't fancy splashing out on the Himantura signifer that Wildwoods had in the other day?

Great rays CFC, hope they pair up and breed.

 

[CFC]

The Himantura signifer were lovely but at £245 each and needing a tank at least 4 feet wide are a little beyond my capabilities at the moment, id definately be interested otherwise.