Advice on stingray/discus tank

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I currently have a planted discus tank. A few years ago I had a hystrix and a retic set up I swapped over to the planted discus tank and have regretted it ever since. I love my discus and want to add stingrays with them. I have read on here that some of had luck and others have not. Here’s the questions: 1) with a planted tank I have swimming pool filter sand. Will the swimming pool filter sand be ok? 2) What about the snails?! When I had stingrays before they were constantly pulling up sand and crushing it in there mouths. Do I need to do a full tear down of my tank? I am going to remove the plants and a few pieces of driftwood to make room for the stingrays. Thanks in advance.
 
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You can expect the stingrays to uproot your plants and mess around with the sand. If you want to keep plants then I suggest having anubias or other rhizome plants or have stem plants in flower pots. The pool filter sand will be perfectly fine, though. Another thing to expect is for stingrays to eat snails. Hope I answered your questions
 
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AaronKWolfe said:
You can expect the stingrays to uproot your plants and mess around with the sand. If you want to keep plants then I suggest having anubias or other rhizome plants or have stem plants in flower pots. The pool filter sand will be perfectly fine, though. Another thing to expect is for stingrays to eat snails. Hope I answered your questions
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Thanks. Is it going to be ok for the stingrays to eat the snails? Oh and the plants I am going to remove anyway.
 
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