Black ray compatibility?

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I am in the process of researching rays to buy when my temensis grow big enough to hold their own in my 560gal and vamptrev is raffling off a black ray before the tems are big enough so I have a couple of questions before i buy tickets.

Is a 5'' black ray compatible with 3 temensis that are in the 6'' to7'' range?

How long would it be before it would outgrow a 18'' wide 100gal tank?

Are rays any harder to pellet train than cichla?


The only other tank I have open right now is a 29gal but I would not put a 5'' ray in a tank that small even if it was just temporarily.
 
I dont know about bass growing faster than rays. I have had both and once rays start growing they can get big fast. Hybrids seem to grow especially fast too and if I am not mistaken the raffle is for a leo/hen hybrid.

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coyotethug said:
I dont know about bass growing faster than rays. I have had both and once rays start growing they can get big fast. Hybrids seem to grow especially fast too and if I am not mistaken the raffle is for a leo/hen hybrid.

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Temensis are the fastest growing in the cichla family. mine have grown from 1-1/2'' to 6-1/2'' in three months.
 
I am actually going to move my rays possibly w/ my smaller pbass bcuz bass grow so fast. My rays eat pellets, live grass shrimp, but they absolutely love tilapia that I cut up into little pieces once or twice a week and it's cheap too. We also use repashy superfoods meatpie that we got at ACA CONVENTION and they tear that up as well. So cool when they eat bro.

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Decker504 said:
I am actually going to move my rays possibly w/ my smaller pbass bcuz bass grow so fast. My rays eat pellets, live grass shrimp, but they absolutely love tilapia that I cut up into little pieces once or twice a week and it's cheap too. We also use repashy superfoods meatpie that we got at ACA CONVENTION and they tear that up as well. So cool when they eat bro.

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Does your friend still have those motoro's that he will be selling?

From the responses I am getting so far I think I will just take a chance and buy some tickets.
 
The only thing I would worry about is the bass letting any food pass them and getting to ray. Once they start eating good though, ray will be fine. I just threw a 8" Leo to the wolves in my 750g because I needed her 180g grow out tank for something special. All the fish range from 14-28". Including a 16" male ray. Within hours she was mixing it up for food with the best of them. Rays are not as fragile as many think
 
jsodwi said:
The only thing I would worry about is the bass letting any food pass them and getting to ray. Once they start eating good though, ray will be fine. I just threw a 8" Leo to the wolves in my 750g because I needed her 180g grow out tank for something special. All the fish range from 14-28". Including a 16" male ray. Within hours she was mixing it up for food with the best of them. Rays are not as fragile as many think
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The thing that usually aggravates me about my tems is that they refuse to eat anything that does not float but that would be a good thing if I was to get a ray.
 
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