New ray, need help!!

**saints4** · 09-28-2009, 10:30 PM

So I just got my first ray, its a 5" reticulated female. So far she has not been very active, just hiding in the sand. Is this normal?

**Red** · 09-28-2009, 10:31 PM

What size tank? How did you acclimate? What are your parameters?

**saints4** · 09-28-2009, 10:35 PM

The tank is a 150,
I left the ray in the bag for a good half hour and release her near the bottom.
All the parameters are good.
Is this normal for low activity? It seems like at night she is much more active

**smaug** · 09-28-2009, 10:36 PM

is this ray in the 125 with your arowana?

**saints4** · 09-28-2009, 10:37 PM

Yeah, in the 150,

**Red** · 09-28-2009, 10:39 PM

Well she might not make it, rays are very hard to adjust to water, a correct way to acclimate them would have a drip acclimation or float the bag and take water out and put some in.

**saints4** · 09-28-2009, 10:40 PM

Its been three days, and from what I can tell she is eating

**smaug** · 09-28-2009, 10:41 PM

Im sorry.I must have misread your profile.It says they are in a 125.Either way,it is quite normal for a ray to be shy when added to a new tank.

**saints4** · 09-28-2009, 10:42 PM

yeah i need to change that, at first I thought I bought a 125, later to find out its actually a 150... but either way, this is normal for rays to hide for the first little bit?