Really Freakin upset!

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Ouch! Sorry about that mate.
 
I'm sorry but I have a different opinion about this whole situation. I don't think your ray attacked that discus, rays are not predators/hunter fr. what I read; your discus was probably half dead, laying on the bottom that 's when the ray pick it up. If you look at the ray mouth, it's way under neath the body, and it doesn't have sharp teeth, their teeth are more for grinding, not biting/cutting. If you ever fish for rays, they tend to lay on top of the bait, eat it, swallow, then swim away, the hook is always deep down intheir stomach; rays just don't have that predator/hunter behavior but more of a scavenger/clean up type of fish. OT , halibuts has the similar type kind of body ( flat with mouth underneath), but are pure hunter/stalker. Just my opinion ofcourse.:chillpill:
 
Sorry, looked like you had a nice one there :(
 
HoangLan;1415776; said:
I'm sorry but I have a different opinion about this whole situation. I don't think your ray attacked that discus, rays are not predators/hunter fr. what I read; your discus was probably half dead, laying on the bottom that 's when the ray pick it up. If you look at the ray mouth, it's way under neath the body, and it doesn't have sharp teeth, their teeth are more for grinding, not biting/cutting. If you ever fish for rays, they tend to lay on top of the bait, eat it, swallow, then swim away, the hook is always deep down intheir stomach; rays just don't have that predator/hunter behavior but more of a scavenger/clean up type of fish. OT , halibuts has the similar type kind of body ( flat with mouth underneath), but are pure hunter/stalker. Just my opinion ofcourse.:chillpill:
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See that's the thing, normally that would be my thoughts as well but this discus was very healthy and I had just feed all of the fish some blackworms. There was actually some black worms in the discus's stomach that I was able to see from his head being bitten off. I had just sat down on the couch after putting the worms in there and onemoment the discus was eating and the next his head was clean cut off.
 
Heiko Bleher posted over at Simplydiscus.com that stingrays get along fine with discus in nature.

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?p=433584#post433584

I talked to a pet shop owner that sells stingrays. He thinks the discus had to be very sick(lying down flat) or already dead for the stingray to eat it. Maybe the discus got startled and knocked itself out by swimming into the tank wall and then the stingray unfortunately ate it.

I googled "discus stingray" and found links where most say it is fine to keep them together. If it happens again, I'd put the stingray in another tank. A fish eating discus is expensive sushi.
 
golfhacker;1420541; said:
Heiko Bleher posted over at Simplydiscus.com that stingrays get along fine with discus in nature.

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?p=433584#post433584

I talked to a pet shop owner that sells stingrays. He thinks the discus had to be very sick(lying down flat) or already dead for the stingray to eat it. Maybe the discus got startled and knocked itself out by swimming into the tank wall and then the stingray unfortunately ate it.

I googled "discus stingray" and found links where most say it is fine to keep them together. If it happens again, I'd put the stingray in another tank. A fish eating discus is expensive sushi.
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Well not to be rude but I know my discus was healthy. He was just small. I know when a fish is sick and he wasn't. I have never had a problem until now. I think it was just some freak thing that happened, but I know he wasn't sick I was watching him eat his heart out right b4 he died.
 
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