shark or ray for 360?
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nitrofish1;2279694; said:
Yeah - that maybe how it's done in FW. In SW it's more about a ray's total length compared to tank's dimensions.
Also - I not sure it's wise to mix cortez and yellow rays.
ok. i could just do another catshark then? the tank is big enough to support the yellow rays lengthkrj-1168;2280098; said:
Hi I currently have a bamboo shark and fiddler ray in my 8ft by 2.5 by 2.5. Can i keep them in that tank for life? i know i need to give the ray back as it will outgrow the tank. How about the shark though? Ray is a foot long and the shark is 15-16" atm? advice please
I have kept California Rays, Yellow rays and cortez ray together, the only "gray zone" was that the California and Cortez may have preferred the water temperature a little cooler, They all mixed well together. I currently have an 8 x 3 x 2 with a horn shark, two baneded bamboo (punctatum), a gray smoothhound, four small cortez and a medium (8-10" disc) california and a few mild tempered fish with no personality conflicts. I have very little decorations, just a few larger peices of live rock in the middle for caves. I have to perform weekly 1/3 water changes and rinse the prefilters about 3 time per week to keep the water right. The filtration system is a very large wet dry with a dual down draft protein skimmer with ozone injected into the skimmer.
@ornatapinnis that tank you mentioned seems very severely overstocked with fish that require completely different temps and much larger set ups. A gray smooth hound by itself needs a tank/pond appx 2000 gallons minimum.
Personally I would suggest - a 2,500 gallon + tank/pond(12' diameter or more) for the Smoothhound, Horn Shark & California Stingray.
And a 900 gallon + pond(9' diameter or more) for the Brown banded Bamboos, and Cortez rays.
And it's hard to say if a 8' x 2.5' x 2.5' tank is large enough for a bamboo -without knowing which species of bamboo. But off hand I would say it's too small (not wide enough) to keep a bamboo shark in for life.
And a 900 gallon + pond(9' diameter or more) for the Brown banded Bamboos, and Cortez rays.
And it's hard to say if a 8' x 2.5' x 2.5' tank is large enough for a bamboo -without knowing which species of bamboo. But off hand I would say it's too small (not wide enough) to keep a bamboo shark in for life.
Australia has some pretty cool sharks, that may be hard for us in the United States to find. Such as the small species of Wobbegongs, the many species of catsharks, and the Blind Sharks.
