Bristle nose pleco with stingray

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AnthonyFish20 said:
Ive been reading up on it and talking to people im ready I didnt get the ray yet im preparing too I did alot of research i plan to do 50% water changes a week and getting a tank bred stingray.
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50% is not near what you need in wc weekly. A ray produces up to 5x more waste then other fishes. I recently moved my two smaller rays from a 540L tank i was growing them out in. I have a big 160L showerfilter, one120L moving bed sump and one eheim 2260 on that tank an still i changed 80% twice a week in that tank.
Have you seen a ray thats 30-35cm wd? Its a massive fish
 
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AnthonyFish20 said:
Its a hybrid with pearl in it dont know the other the guy told me the males get only about 12 inches the ray was eating he fed it infront of me also they are tank bred.
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A pearl gets massive. Ive seen pearls 2' over its disc.
 
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TheReefer said:
I'd be VERY WARY of that, I don't know much about stingrays, but I can tell you most get bigger than that., and if I remember correctly the pearl stingray gets 18 inches (check out this website and see if they look like the one you might be getting https://freshwaterstingrays.co.uk/resources/freshwater-stingray/ ). It's very good that it is eating and tank raised though. I would suggest asking that guy how he filters his tank as he is (I presume) breeding them and taking good care of them.
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Its not one like tht it has genes from the species.
 
Tobiassorensen said:
50% is not near what you need in wc weekly. A ray produces up to 5x more waste then other fishes. I recently moved my two smaller rays from a 540L tank i was growing them out in. I have a big 160L showerfilter, one120L moving bed sump and one eheim 2260 on that tank an still i changed 80% twice a week in that tank.
Have you seen a ray thats 30-35cm wd? Its a massive fish
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That's about the size of a pizza, I had some motoro's in the pet store I was working at and for them specifically we had them in an old reef tank (it was 8 inches tall and was 2 feet wide by 5 feet long) and we ran an FX5 on it and had the water go into a tub that we used to hold pond plants to use up the nitrates, and even then we did a 10% water change every day so that way we don't shock them or anything.
 
TheReefer said:
That's about the size of a pizza, I had some motoro's in the pet store I was working at and for them specifically we had them in an old reef tank (it was 8 inches tall and was 2 feet wide by 5 feet long) and we ran an FX5 on it and had the water go into a tub that we used to hold pond plants to use up the nitrates, and even then we did a 10% water change every day so that way we don't shock them or anything.
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Yeah one hell of a chunky pizza. Yeah once you see your nitrates go high quick with rays you know how much water you have to change. In my temporary pool i change 70% three to four times a week depending on how heavy i feed. But the pool is heavily stocked with 5 peacocks ranging from 30 to 50cm+ 4 rays rainging from 18 to 40cm and one 50+cm lemonbarb
 
Tobiassorensen said:
Yeah one hell of a chunky pizza. Yeah once you see your nitrates go high quick with rays you know how much water you have to change. In my temporary pool i change 70% three to four times a week depending on how heavy i feed. But the pool is heavily stocked with 5 peacocks ranging from 30 to 50cm+ 4 rays rainging from 18 to 40cm and one 50+cm lemonbarb
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Yeah we only had 1 mated pair in there that were 6-8 inches
 
TheReefer said:
Yeah we only had 1 mated pair in there that were 6-8 inches
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Mated pair in that size?

These two are in that size and not even close to be mature yet. I have an motoromale thats 27cm wd and hes not fully developed yet

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TheReefer said:
I'm not sure, I was working at a local pet store and I was in charge of fish and I got a customer a pair of stingrays, the seller told me they were a mated pair.
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Well either the seller lied or he meant that it was a male and a female. Ive only seen one species or rays being mature at that size and thats potamotrygon magdalenae and they hardly shows up in the hobby.
 
Tobiassorensen said:
Well either the seller lied or he meant that it was a male and a female. Ive only seen one species or rays being mature at that size and thats potamotrygon magdalenae and they hardly shows up in the hobby.
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Yeah, I'm not sure, this was awhile ago (10+ years) so I can't remember much, but I remember them being motoros and being a "mated pair", he probably meant a male/female pair. I'm not sure about that though because again I don't know much about stingrays as I never came across them very often, I can probably count on 1 hand the amount of times I had them in our store.
 
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