Ray Activity Level

[Gr8KarmaSF]

One of my younger rays is super active, ALWAYS swimming and gliding the surface of the water, begging for food, entertaining my guests, splashing water out the tank, turning over rocks, etc. I swear this rays got ADD...lol

Its also one of the most agressive rays Ive got, biting any other rays much bigger or smaller than him, drives me nutz!

Anybody else have a ray of this energy level? Did the ray outgrow it? If so at what age to it mellow out?

 

[Steve_89]

I have a big male motoro pushing 20" that is like that...constantly swimming mid water and gliding in my overflows/outlets. I wouldn't mind so much if he didn't splash so much water over the side.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

At 20" im guessing he is not going to outgrow the behavior....lol

 

[Steve_89]

At 20" im guessing he is not going to outgrow the behavior....lol

No I don't think so...Maybe when I add a female she will give him something to occupy himself with.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

When i had my 5 young rays in a 6x2x2 all around 6-7" disc i had a pair of humerosa and they were very active but still rather shy and a peruvian motoro who would swim everywhere and spend a lot of time in the air stone current. But i also had 2 motoros and i found them to be the least active out of them. I also had a 22" Disc motoro and she was active but didnt really come up the sides or anything.

My new boy marble whos around 12" is always on the move and blowing in the gravel looking for some food and moving decor and going up the side lol. I guess it varies with size, ages and specieces?

 

[hondas3000]

I have a 9" doing that right now. Constantly swim up and down and around the tank and upside down. I hope he is stop soon because at night that make so much noise and wake me up . I think it ask for a bigger tank as well.

 

[vamptrev]

i have noticed that marbles are more active then reg motoros and leos are even more active then marbles.. this is my experience and actually the only 3 types of rays ive ever owned

 

[mshuangchao]

Iwamae's have got to be the most active, imo.
They just don't stop climbing the glass, again and again for hours and hours, scares the crap out of my payaras!

 

[Deaths Sting]

One of my younger rays is super active, ALWAYS swimming and gliding the surface of the water, begging for food, entertaining my guests, splashing water out the tank, turning over rocks, etc. I swear this rays got ADD...lol

Its also one of the most agressive rays Ive got, biting any other rays much bigger or smaller than him, drives me nutz!

Anybody else have a ray of this energy level? Did the ray outgrow it? If so at what age to it mellow out?

sounds more like ADHD!

my little 8'' female motoro goes crazy sometimes when i enter the room.. she will swim to the surface and start splashing around opening and closing her mouth. sometimes she will even walk across the bottom of the tank standing up on her pelvic fins!

at feeding time she will push her fellow tankmates away from the food and if any tankmate comes close to her and her food, she will pounce on them and try to push them in the opposite direction in relationship to that of the food..
as soon as she smells the food in the water she will jump off the glass and fly too the food! that is if she is on the glass.. she spends 75% of the time traveling on the glass , 20 % of the time digging/blowing and 5% hiding.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

I once thought that I might be under feeding my ray but even after a feeding he is still crazy busy!!!!!