2 males with 1 female

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DariusAmurdarja said:
It has nothing to do with rays. It is with evry species that females suffer stress when kept with more males (including humans...). If you consider mass rape a good form of breeding ok, but i would like my animals to be stress free as much as possible. Beside that rays do nip on the females fins while mating. As said above, the females take alot of beating during that. In nature a female ray can escape. What can she do in a tank? stab the rapist to death?
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So far no one posted to say the female gets killed or is under enormous stress.
Chill out . Lol

Don't mean to derail your thread Steve.
 
Ade said:
So far no one posted to say the female gets killed or is under enormous stress.
Chill out . Lol

Don't mean to derail your thread Steve.
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I think we agree, that she does not enjoy that. Best thing is always to keep one male and two females. That way alot of pressure is taken away from the individual female. That goes for evry species.
 
Not necessarily. Often the male will go for just 1 female and concentrate on that one.

However I do keep 2 female and 1 male .

Anyways, I'd like to hear from people who keep more males than females and have experienced problems like YOU said.


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...in some cases females are the more aggressive of the two sexes so multiple females would just kill one another or even the male so reverse trio is necessary with some sp.

Just adding my $0.02 worth since it's become a general topic thread. :popcorn:
 
DariusAmurdarja said:
It has nothing to do with rays. It is with evry species that females suffer stress when kept with more males (including humans...). If you consider mass rape a good form of breeding ok, but i would like my animals to be stress free as much as possible. Beside that rays do nip on the females fins while mating. As said above, the females take alot of beating during that. In nature a female ray can escape. What can she do in a tank? stab the rapist to death?
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That's gota be one of the dumbest posts I've seen on this forum.


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Thank you jimmy for pointing that out. I totally agree.

Let's start with " it has nothing to do with rays....." :ROFL::ROFL:
I'm not even gonna go into the next part of his post...

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i had 1 male with 3 females if i added another mature male and the 1st male nearly killed the new male

i then added a non mature male and let him mature in the tank with no problems

i think with 2 non mature males it maybe fine until they both mature then they may fight bad

a freind of mine matain had a female p14 and a bd and male p14 when they both matured and the bd paired with the female the bd male nearly killed the male p14 and done real damage over night

for best results get 2 females and 1 male with this combo it takes some stress off of the one female

motoro are much more aggressive and i think you will have problems with 2 males

each ray is different but i wouldnt risk 2 mature male motoro with 1 female
 
introduceing any new fish of the same species in most instances is always a gamble, for rays in particular all i can personally attest too is my female retic is blatently more aggresive then my male and pushes him around... i was going to add another female but im now debating a male might be a better idea.
 
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