Leo's aggression towards light based rays.

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skynoch

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I've noticed that my leos are very peaceful with other black rays but towards other species they start to change. With my brown ray species they start to get a little nippy with them but all in all no one is to stressed out or damaged. Now when I have mixed them with my tigers or flowers they have went at them almost non-stop to the point of killing one in less than a day. I have also talked to other ray keepers with similar experiences with leos killing there flowers. I have also tried leos with my xingus and found the aggression to be some where inbetween that of the brown rays and flowers/tigers.
For anyone that knows what exact areas leos come from are there any light based rays that co-habitate with them or are they in direct competition with them that they would target the lighter rays more so than darker ones by nature. I know flowers and tigers don't come from there but just curious why the light based rays are the ones being tageted for aggression. Btw my leos are captive bred.
 
all i know is my leos used to beat the crap out of my motoros, but now i only have the 1 female motoro and the leos pay absolutly NO attention to her :screwy:
 
I am curious as to whether this aggression occured after adding adult blacks and lighter/different species together after they became adults. Were the rays raised together from pups then all the sudden the aggression started after becoming adults, or did it start as pups and just continue into adult hood.
 
The leos as pups were with xingus to start and were allways nipping at them. They were then moved in with some adult motoros and kept nipping a little but didn't really phase the larger rays. They stayed with the motoros for about 2 years allways nipping at them a little duing this period. I then moved the male into my 2200 and it kept nipping at all the rays in there but only slightly except for the pearl and henlie were pretty much left alone. I added two male tigers and and 2 female flowers and it went nuts biting at one then the other. I removed the one smaller flower right away and figured the other rays were much larger than the leo and everything would settle out. The next day one tiger was dead and the other flower and tiger were beatenup pretty bad and their breathing was very rapid. Moved the male leo out again and back with the female leo and a pearl x marble which the male shows some aggression to but the smallr pearl x marble just rides on top of the leo when it gets nippy.
Vamp how old is your leo? Do you think they mellow more the older they get?
 
I wonder, is this a species or individual ray temperament? I guess that is one of the things
you are trying to get at.:)
 
I know talking to a few others that leos seem the most aggressive to other rays but mainly to my light based rays. Right now I'm keeping 10 different types of rays and some hybrids and nothing else really seems to show much aggression towards each other besides the leos. The marble motoro I have once in awhile nips at the flower an tiger also but very rarely.
 
my big female motoro got beat up a few times. i just kept seperating her letting her heal, then taking the divider back out. eventually they either quit picking on her or she learned how to avoid getting bit

i think that leos will just pick on other rays that are easy targets, and they dont pick on other leos as much because the other leos wont put up with their crap lol

my leos range from 1 yr to 3 yrs old
 
:iagree:

LMAO:ROFL:

Racist or not I still want some of those beauties one day.
 
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