clown loaches and stingray???
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I remember awhile ago, I wanted to buy some clowns from grapedinox - she was selling them because they were picking on her ray. Here's the thread: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?371421-Clown-Loaches-for-sale&highlight=
I have three clowns (4"-5") in a 260 gallon tank with my 9" Male Marbled Motoro and have never had any issues. Actually, quite the opposite, as the clowns do a great job cleaning-up the scraps of market shrimp that I feed the ray. I have even seen the three clowns swimming on-top of the stingray as it moves through the tank...pretty cool to watch them swim together accross the tank.
I have 15 clown loaches in with my two very large mature female marbled motoros. The loaches are 6.5-9" and the female rays are about 16" and 18" disk diameter. I keep the rays well fed and the loaches have some driftwood to hide under where the rays can not get at them. Been a couple months so far and so far so good.
Many very experienced ray keepers have told me that loaches are a bad idea with rays....
More-so because the rays may eventually attempt to eat the loaches, and the spines on the loaches will become lodged in the mouth and cause death for the rays. I have personally not tried it, and don't intend to.
More-so because the rays may eventually attempt to eat the loaches, and the spines on the loaches will become lodged in the mouth and cause death for the rays. I have personally not tried it, and don't intend to.