stingrays and plecos

[doviiman]

Ok is it a bad idea to keep a common pleco with a sting ray. I have a female henlei, and a 12in common/regular pleco, and he follows her around the tank pestering her. Any time she settles down he will start landing on her and I guess he is sucking on here coat, so I removed the pleco, but is this common? And if so are there any other sutable replacements for the pleco to keep the algae off the glass all the time.

 

[ajsmith235]

No sucking fish with rays bud. They will stress and kill ur rays. dont think there is anything u can do about the algea except manually getting it off.

 

[lookyloo]

No sucking fish with rays bud. They will stress and kill ur rays. dont think there is anything u can do about the algea except manually getting it off.

It was just the opposite for my situation. I lost a 14" L330 due it being stung by my motoro.
The motoro is bastard fish alway trying to mate with my FRT

 

[Cajun]

Mixing rays & plecos are never a good idea. Sometimes, they get a taste for the ray's slime coat & suck away.

 

[nomad]

I 've seen plecos mixing with rays successfuly, countless times. You need a non carnivore pleco (L056 comes to mind but they are so many others)

 

[jeffers]

also dont forget that plecos can become ray food and their top fin can cause damage to the ray or even choke the ray. imo they shouldnt be mixed at all. some people do it some dont so to all their own.

 

[grapedinox]

I have 2 bristle nose pleco's with my ray's going on 3 years of the mix with no issues ever. But the pleco's are maxed out at 4 in.

 

[soupa2]

currently i have my MM with an Adonis pleco together.. a 2" tail fin of the Adnois have been bitten off but both are living in harmony now.. good luck with your try outs..

 

[USMCtanker]

for algea i got a few moss balls. it really does help, crazy as it sounds lol

 

[doviiman]

Okay so the pleco is out, wow that sucks,he was so great with the glass house keeping lol. Or maybe I'll try a less aggressive breed, funny thing is this is the most aggressive pleco I have ever seen in my 30yrs of fish keeping, even tries to bully the 14in indo dat and 16in pbass for same space near a log....unbelievable..