motoro stingray tankmates?

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Jack Dempsey
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I have a 150 5-2-2 with a 4 inch dovii in it. When the dovii gets a little older (big enough to not get eaten) i'm looking into getting a motoro stingray with him? I'm very new to ray keeping so I have no idea if this will work out. Trust me, I know that my dovii will be very aggressive but I'm not sure with a ray. Will they be ok with each other or just forget about it? Thanks.
 
I never kept a dovii but heard stories. Not sure how he will behave with a ray. That is a small footprint so the dovii could claim the whole territory and kill anything in his space. If you get a ray get one and look for a male as they stay smaller. I am not going to say your tank is too small but will say you better have a beefy filtration system that can handle large ammonia spikes. By beefy I am not talking turnover rate or what your filter says it can handle tank wise but I am talking about volume of bio media and added water volume that can add to system volume.

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haha dont worry, i have 2 fx6s
 
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haha dont worry, i have 2 fx6s
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The two fx6s will be nice but like spot said there really isn't much total water volume with a 150 to handle the ammonia so spikes can really easily happen. The dovii is going to get pretty big for the water volume so imo adding a rays bio load as well could be risky. Will be interesting to hear what others have to say maybe add a sump to enlarge the total water volume.


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Lots of potential issues here..... Ray eating the dovii at night, dovii killing the ray, tank is too small for the ray and actually pretty small for a dovii if it's a male. I've kept plenty of aggressive cichlids with rays but in a larger tank. 150 is a nice size for a cichlid community or could potentially work for a smaller species of ray such as hystrix.
 
Ok thanks guys. I was just curious to see how people would think about it.
 
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