RAYS IN ACRYLIC TANK

[vamptrev]

I've put some big rocks in my tank and I've noticed my rays kinda chewing on
them.
Is this what they do when they're bord?
I've never seen them actually chew on the acrylic thou.

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It tends to be prego females most of the time. They bite the glass, airstones, airhose, and spit water out of the tank


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[boogeyman]

Ive never had that problem but I keep a fine sand substrate on the bottom and the rays are always sifting thru it and cleaning their gills with it us I got a smooth piece of driftwood in there that they seem to all like and occasionally chew on so I wonder if all the rays in a bare tank with nothing in it chew on the tank because of lack of substance in there

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[burbon44s]

Ive never had that problem but I keep a fine sand substrate on the bottom and the rays are always sifting thru it and cleaning their gills with it us I got a smooth piece of driftwood in there that they seem to all like and occasionally chew on so I wonder if all the rays in a bare tank with nothing in it chew on the tank because of lack of substance in there

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That's what I was thinking. I have fine sand to but i added a couple more rocks for them to mess with. They're out of the way so the rays don't swim into them.
I've also noticed not just chewing, but they enjoy to straddle them to

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[Karl K]

I have seen some things on this forum but never a ray wider than the tank lol

You stand as much chance of the ray chewing on the acrylic as you do of them chewing on the silicon bead


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a 2' wide tank with a fullygrown motoro in it? Wouldnt it be wider?

 

[T1KARMANN]

a 2' wide tank with a fullygrown motoro in it? Wouldnt it be wider?

Show me pictures of this like I said I have never seen anything that extreme

I think even a ghetto fish keeper would see it as wrong


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[joey02]

In a bare acrylic tank, they will scratch the bottom up and the bottom quarter of the panels. The bigger the rays, the more damage they do.

 

[CHANNELxCAT]

In a bare acrylic tank, they will scratch the bottom up and the bottom quarter of the panels. The bigger the rays, the more damage they do.

Good info!

P.S. I am a big fan of your youtube!


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