Will a large pbass eat, hurt or kill a ray? I will be in NJ next week and I would like to add 2 pbass to my tank there. The rays are all 10-12" and I was thinking maybe a pbass about 12-16".
I'm from Hawaii. I have a tank there in Weehawken, NJ at my inlaws house. Since I am unable to keep them in Hawaii, and I fly over every month. I got some to enjoy there. Plus my bro-inlaw loves fish and keeps very good care of them when I am away.
I kept large rays wth large pbass. They were actually a good fit.
Trick is getting the rays enough food. What I did to combat that was to put the pbass in another tank and train them on smelts for food. The Rays I trained on shrimp. Basically put the pbass hit the smelts and would let the shrimp go to the bottom for food.
Pbass are incredibly finicky eaters so there is little chance they will stray from what they are given usually.