my rays behavior

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ronin_man

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ok, so i was just doing my normal maintenance on my tank today, i got out all my stuff and got ready to clean the gravel as i do once every week. i put the siphon into the tank and started cleaning and within about 20 seconds my ray started to try and eat the siphon... was the weirdest thing i have ever seen.
he would come up to it looking for food and i guess it would suck up a bit of his disk, he would freak out/swim away and come right back and do it again... i was laughing so hard. he did this about 6 or 7 times then eventually stopped trying to eat it and just went about his business.

has anyone seen anything like this from your rays?
this was the first time i had seen him do this.
and i havent changed anything in the tank or added any fish since the last time i cleaned the gravel, maybe he was just being a jerk and saying "you shouldnt be cleaning, you should be feeding me" lol

anyways, does anyone have any insight into this ?
probably just him being a weirdo...
 
was probably just being curious
 
Nic;2261414; said:
was probably just being curious

^ agreed ^

Rays are much more curious and smarter than we give them credit for...
 
lol, ok, i've just never seen him do it before, he has always just ignored it until this time. oh well, funny little guy
 
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