I have a few species of bichir, some clown loaches, lima shovelnose, african shovelnose, bristlenose plecos, leopard perch, and arrowana knifefish in with my rays. Bichir, cats, and loaches eat any spare food as well as afterbirth and rich curlers.
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Flagtails are a big risk one you don't need to take
Get a shoal of tinfoils the even eat ray poo
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Get a shoal of tinfoils the even eat ray poo
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I have tinfoil barbs and clown loaches with my pair. They are great for clean up.
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They suck on the rays disk and do real damage
You may thinks its fine but they can start sucking over night and destroy a ray in mins
I know so many people who have said the flagtail is fine myself included
I had one for 4 years with no issues then bang it went mad sucking on rays and a aro
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usually two leads to one picking on the other. i suppose i didn't think about multiples more than two. that probably would work.
its so hard to believe when its of the most passive fish. I'm not doubting you T1 as I've heard this many times, it just surprises me.
I have pictures on my pc I will drag out for you
It's not nice
When mine started sucking I saw it at first and every time he sucked I would chase it around with a chop stick to make it stop this went on for one week and even when he swam over the rays it's like it knew the chop stick was coming
This made it stop for 6 months then bang over night real damage
Tinfoils do a great job and the ones with red and black tails look a bit like flagtails and do great in groups
I had a group of 6 flagtails and they shoaled around nice for 2 days then one morning one was dead then another then another th your left with the strongest one
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Hope u washed the chop stick before you used it with your Chinese lol sorry just really made me laugh
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Thanks T1 id love to see those pics. Every once and a while my flag tail gives a slight suck on a ray but nothing aggressive. Just as if he sees food laying on the ray and wants to pick it off.
