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All my pup tanks are filled right now so when Mom (in the foreground) gave birth this time I was on holidays in Mexico and all the pups made a break into the main tank from a floating tank I had. I did lose two over the time I was there since I took my feedings down from when I was away but now that I'm home I upped the feedings and have kept them in there with no problems since. The little guys are feeding on the mess left from the bigger fish feeding and seem to be doing well. The little guy in the middle is about a 7-8" pup.

When dripping with chloramine you would either use a filter rated for chloramine so I would use a sediment,carbon and then a chloramine for the 3rd stage or you could use a dosing system with prime. I've got some links for flowmeters and dosing systems that I have if you need it. If your really handy you could ditch your hot water tank and install a tankless hot water system. Depending on location of everything it would run you around 1500 to 2200 to do it yourself. Drip may be easier lol.

How come your not using a heated drip system?

UFA farm stores have them also.

Congrats on the rectics, not that common to see then breed so hopefully people can pick up some pointers on these rays from you.

Small rays I use a rubbermaid container like Kyle large rays I use a rubber fishing net. I've done both with pups, kept them in a floating bin and moved them into a new tank depending on tank space available. Do either right after birth.

Usually if they are playing in the bubbles it will be up and down the whole water column if they are at the top the whole time there is usually a ammonia or oxygen problem.

Hey Kyle good to see you back, hope your gonna get yourself back into rays soon. I used two coats of Zavlar on mine but then used a trowel coat with it to place my tiles on after. I tried Zavlar to glue the acrylic window on but woould use silicone next time I think. Silicone won't stick to the zavlar as well as it will the epoxy paints. Zavlar can also be tricky to work with especially if you are building a big tank you are going to walk around in as it stays tacky forever or until water is applied or you expose it to UV light. The good thing about it is it is really flexible and self healing. I would like to try a smaller tank with epoxy to see which one I like more to work with.

Epoxy paints or Zavlar.

These are a great hybrid. Will look fantastic as they grow and will continue to look good once they are old.

They're probably way too big for your tank now and need to sell/trade them to me. They look great, hopefully I'll find some one day.

Something must have spooked your ray as I've never seen one try to use it's stinger as a kill method. Wrong place, wrong time for the pleco sorry to here about it. I just lost the tig you traded me to some rays gone wild also.

That's great Trevor. You will probably have to seperate the pups until they start to eat and get a little bigger if you haven't all ready.

If your planning a stingray in the future I would reccomend at least 3' deep. My tank is 8' deep and I have no problem seeing to the back of it.

Wow you must be doing something right. Ya your going to need aq huge tank for what you got going on.