rays with catfish???

[quipo]

Hi everyone, I´m new here and I´m thinking about star a new project with rays and catfish, but I have a question. Can I keep rays with some red tail cat fish??
I´m not sure about keep them in the same tank, so please help me
And thanks to all of you

 

[bahamaqt00]

Im sure everyone will tell you No, don't keep them together. But I keep mine with a RTCxTSN hybrid and they do just fine together. The ray will swim and land on his head and he doesn't care at all. I think it just depends.

 

[Austin]

size dependent. pancakes are good....

 

[quipo]

but I know that the red tail cat fish is sometimes aggressive when they fighting for food or territory, you don´t have problems with that in your thank?

 

[quipo]

but I think that if the rays are bigger than the RTC they´re not going to have problems or yes?

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Make sure that the ray has a good headstart in growth over the redtail, as id be scared that they ray could end up as food

 

[DB junkie]

Good luck in getting food to the ray. I keep my rays with Irwini cats, thought to be one of if not the most gentle of the big cats and I still end up chasing them off with a stick at feeding times and the rays are bigger then the cats. No Motoro is going to keep up with a RTCs growth rate. I'd call this idea a fish taco. When the RTC gets big enough its gonna fold the ray in half and eat it.

 

[vamptrev]

rtc's usually dont get as big in a tank as they do in the wild unless u have a huge pond. ive seen lots of comm tanks w 3 to 4 foot rtc's and 30" rays getting along great.

if the rtc starts gaining inches too fast, just sell it and start w a baby again

 

[Wet Whiskers]

Good luck in getting food to the ray. I keep my rays with Irwini cats, thought to be one of if not the most gentle of the big cats and I still end up chasing them off with a stick at feeding times and the rays are bigger then the cats. No Motoro is going to keep up with a RTCs growth rate. I'd call this idea a fish taco. When the RTC gets big enough its gonna fold the ray in half and eat it.

And he wont have to be near as big as you think he'd have to be to do this. These cats can pull off the impossible when it comes to eating.

 

[Gshock]

Not sure about RTC, but from my gulper and motoro experience, I would say, catfish definitely do not work.