Colourful tank mates

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jim barry said:
I want and have tried geos but they always get munched! Even at 4" they are too small. Need to be fully grown at 8" to stand any chance with large rays. But not sure how long it takes Altifrons to reach that size? Got 4 at the moment that have gone from 1" or so to 3" in around 6 months. Going to be at least another year to stand a chance of going in the main tank with a 23" disc ray lol. Sure they are fine with Hystrix or such so depends on the rays you own.
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ive got abit different experience with geo ( 3 winemilleri and 6 megasema ) they grow amazingly fast 3'' to 6' in abut 2months
they've eaten lots of hikari carnivore pellets before the Rays can reach to it lol but 2 of them were badly injured by the big rays so i still dont think Geo are ideally tankmates in a long term with Rays tbh ( of course apart from hystrix,mini marble etc )
 
Rays starter said:
ive got abit different experience with geo ( 3 winemilleri and 6 megasema ) they grow amazingly fast 3'' to 6' in abut 2months
they've eaten lots of hikari carnivore pellets before the Rays can reach to it lol but 2 of them were badly injured by the big rays so i still dont think Geo are ideally tankmates in a long term with Rays tbh ( of course apart from hystrix,mini marble etc )
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I need to see a picture to believe a 6' geo;)
 
At one time I had FULL GROWN: 2 super red severums, and a school of about 12 geos. Hecklii, tapajos, and surimamensis. Prego marble picked them all off one by one and ate the eyes and brains out. It just depends on the ray. She won't bother 2 12" kelberi I have in there now.
 
I had some heckeli with mine but they would nip at the rays. Red severums, C.dimerus, and geos all would work well and have color. I have some dimerus and geophagus sp. red head tapajos with my rays. My geos have grown very slowly
 
Thanks for this I have got a pair of severum S now and grown to about 4in over last couple months.

New question what small colourful fish are there I could put with them as would quite like a little shoal in there, something fast that ray could catch and that doesn't sleep on substrate as that obviously wouldn't work!

Ideas? Any types of tetra etc?
 
litigator666 said:
I have a big blackbelt and reddevil on my tank. the big americans just mind their own business and ignores the rays.
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Thats nice to hear, I have about a dozen different Viejas and Amphs growing out to go in with mine.
How large are they and how long they been together?
 
Jez1992 said:
Thanks for this I have got a pair of severum S now and grown to about 4in over last couple months.

Now that's a tough one. No level of the tank is out of bounds or out of interest to rays, they will prowl all through the night and pick off whatever small tank mates they take a fancy to.

Tetras aside I'd have to suggest mature specimens of red hook or tiger dollars, anything similar to those. Thing is, rays will chew up a sleeping discus, even a mature discus, so dollars etc are just as likely to get a beating.



New question what small colourful fish are there I could put with them as would quite like a little shoal in there, something fast that ray could catch and that doesn't sleep on substrate as that obviously wouldn't work!

Ideas? Any types of tetra etc?
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