Stingray tankmates

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njackson

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i made a list what tankmates can go with stingrays, so when i get a tank i will know what i can have. i though i will share with you guys and i though it will be useful. Some on the list will need big tanks , so some will not work in small tanks, i got this info on the web. what do you think , add anything you want.

Geophagus
Uaru
Silver dollars
pacus (big tank)
severums
Bichirs
Gars
Arowana (not jardini)
Discus (need a tall tank)
Anglefish
Knifefish
South American lungfish (can bite chucks out of the rays)
Australian lungfish
Lima catfish
Datnioids
Peacock bass
Tigrinum catfish
vulture catfish
Giraffe catfish
Irwin catfish
Niger catfish
Fire eel
Pacman catfish
Marbled catfish
clown loach (not small ones)
Goldy plec
Bushy nose plec
Flagtail Characin
Pseudacanthicus serratus
Leopard plec
Gold nugget plec
Green stop plec
Titanius plec
Black Ghost knife fish
ID shark
Pike cichlid
hermchtys pearsai
firewood catfish (big tank)
Tiger shovelnose catfish
Lince catfish
Bolt catfish
Brachyplatystoma Platynerum
Armatus
Juruense
 
sorry but i have to disagree with discus stingrays are to active at night just to list one reason. not saying it cant happen just would not recommend it.
 
ive rread royal plecos are pretty mellow and work and also silver and black aro's
 
most of those plecos i would not trust.... and with those cats you need to make sure the cats cant eat the rays
 
c01251978;3100430; said:
sorry but i have to disagree with discus stingrays are to active at night just to list one reason. not saying it cant happen just would not recommend it.
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Besides silver/black arowanas, I think discus are the safest bet with rays (given the animals are similar in size enough not to easily be made into snacks), although the discus might become expensive snacks (as with any fish that you put with stingrays).
 
discus only last so long as rays over 8in disc just stress out discus. ive tried and had to move my discus out tank.
 
ive heard birchirs can bite on a rays disk?
never tried it though..

also because birchirs are slow, they will have to compete for food. as rays are prity qucik to snap everything up.

not a risk i was willing to take...
 
I have discus in with my rays and so far so good . . .

They dont seem to mind each other at all. And at night the discus sleep in the plants away from where the rays are.
 
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