Hey Everybody,
I notice throughout numerous searches and such I see that one of the most difficult things of keeping rays is the idea of housing them with tankmates. I read this sticky on the ancient fish thread about tank mates for gars. A member- Xander had came up with a great idea on how to evaluate tankmates for gars based on members experinces and observations. Here is how it goes:
Copy and paste the following and continue to fill up the blanks to participate!!
Tankmate family/common name - family name(or members)/scientific name
Members' experience :
Species & Size of Gar:
Size of tank:
Size of tankmate:
Duration of cohabitation:
Comments (pros and cons, other comments)
Pros:
Cons:
Other Comments:
Members' overall compatibility rating : #/10
(include experience on aggression, spooking, etc)
This Section will be subject to moderation, inclusion and exclusion depending on the quality of post and the legitability of individual posts.
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reGARding the "Members' overall compatibility rating : #/10" section, one is free to have his own rating rubrix. but here's mine. nothing to quote me by, but something i find rather useful from a hobbyist point of view when deciding if i should try a tankmate.
water body requirements (slow moving vs fast moving) - 2 points
tendency to spook/cause spooking - 2 points
boisterious/aggressive/territorial behavior - 2 points
tendency to draw aggression from gars - 2 points
misc - 2 points
Xander rates each tankmate based on those 5 items, rating them from 0-2 and adding the scores. of course, certain factors (such as slime sucking behavior from plecos or insane territorial behaviour from aggressive cichlids (ime, oscar)) will over ride this rubrix.
Thank You to Xander for your post in the gar section as this could come in great help in the stingray section.
Please input! I look forward to hearing your ideas of tankmates and such...hope this will be helpful to new or soon to be ray owners like myself.
(Also I used yellow text to show all the work Xander had put into his sticky in the gar section)
I notice throughout numerous searches and such I see that one of the most difficult things of keeping rays is the idea of housing them with tankmates. I read this sticky on the ancient fish thread about tank mates for gars. A member- Xander had came up with a great idea on how to evaluate tankmates for gars based on members experinces and observations. Here is how it goes:
Copy and paste the following and continue to fill up the blanks to participate!!
Tankmate family/common name - family name(or members)/scientific name
Members' experience :
Species & Size of Gar:
Size of tank:
Size of tankmate:
Duration of cohabitation:
Comments (pros and cons, other comments)
Pros:
Cons:
Other Comments:
Members' overall compatibility rating : #/10
(include experience on aggression, spooking, etc)
This Section will be subject to moderation, inclusion and exclusion depending on the quality of post and the legitability of individual posts.
__________________________________________________ ____________________________________________
reGARding the "Members' overall compatibility rating : #/10" section, one is free to have his own rating rubrix. but here's mine. nothing to quote me by, but something i find rather useful from a hobbyist point of view when deciding if i should try a tankmate.
water body requirements (slow moving vs fast moving) - 2 points
tendency to spook/cause spooking - 2 points
boisterious/aggressive/territorial behavior - 2 points
tendency to draw aggression from gars - 2 points
misc - 2 points
Xander rates each tankmate based on those 5 items, rating them from 0-2 and adding the scores. of course, certain factors (such as slime sucking behavior from plecos or insane territorial behaviour from aggressive cichlids (ime, oscar)) will over ride this rubrix.
Thank You to Xander for your post in the gar section as this could come in great help in the stingray section.
Please input! I look forward to hearing your ideas of tankmates and such...hope this will be helpful to new or soon to be ray owners like myself.
(Also I used yellow text to show all the work Xander had put into his sticky in the gar section)