Pups and predators

KNH

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Many of us keep our rays with a variety of predators swimming around. Has anyone had the misfortune to lose a newborn pup to a armatus, dorado, wolf or any other large mouth?
 

vamptrev

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The only fish i ever had come close was my old 22" armatus. He was watching a pup very closely and i was rely scared but he didnt do anything.

So far my ck, hampala, armies, sds, are all good with pups. My ck is rely the only huge fish i have so far though


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KNH

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My dorado is worrying me a little. No pups yet but he may go in quarantine temporarily if my rays work thing out.
 

DIDYSIS

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I've been very lucky with pups so far. Not that I have super crazy killer fish but still some big bass and arowana and such all never given me any problems. Or other rays as well. I figure if they are super valuable and you want to make sure they are OK take the extra effort to do so. It's worth the sanity.

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MEDHBSI

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I almost lost my snow leopard pup to my 9" TATF. I would have never heard the end of it from my wife if i killed such a pricey ray. Thank god he only shredded his disk and he healed completely. IF you really like that pup remove the predator lol.
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Blkpiranha

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My Black wolf fish worked over a motoro pup real good a couple years back. Left it with a hole in the top of it's disc and half a tail. I have only lost one pup and that was just the recent leo/pearlxpearl male and that was the adult rays working him over a little too much and he died within 24hrs. I would be more concerned with adult rays then anything else.
 

shookONES

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A friend of mine had a giant arapaima eat an entire litter of BD pups because he didn't catch the birth.
 
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