Territorial?

[turkeyboy85]

Has there been any studies done on female rays being territorial durring thier instinctional breeding time? My female rays have been biotches to each other laitly. IMO this would make sense to be like.... this is my area.... get out of here..... so when the males come......


Any thoughts on this?

 

[jwong1024]

I believe its mother nature at its finest. If you look at pretty much any animal in he wild, the mother or father will be the "protector". Sometimes its both parents, and sometimes its neither. But again thats mother nature doing that.

 

[cjfrontlovr]

i have 9 mm in 1 tank and the last 2 weeks they've a been 'itchy..2 of the females are getting chew'd up by a male but they all seem really "touchy" lately..dunno if its the season,a problem or whats goin on..

 

[turkeyboy85]

i have 9 mm in 1 tank and the last 2 weeks they've a been 'itchy..2 of the females are getting chew'd up by a male but they all seem really "touchy" lately..dunno if its the season,a problem or whats goin on..

hmm..... interesting..... anyone else see an increase of agression as of late?

 

[abortedsoul]

According to Dr. Ross, stingrays are not territorial. Besides male on female (and immature male) violence during mating, well-fed rays should be docile towards each other. (If you’d like me to cite the source for you I’d be happy to. I don’t have the book in front of me, but I’d dig it up if you wanted to take a look. )

If this is the case, I think it would be a rather huge discovery in ray-keeping. I’m very interested as to where this goes! Anybody else have this type of agression?

 

[csx4236]

Stingrays are aggressive towards each other when breeding. Better get used to it now they will always be chewed up and fighting once get tank full of breeding rays. You guys should see my big leo pond all have pieces missing and lots of aggression. It really only stops when all females are pregnant. Then once they birth it's back to fighting.

 

[turkeyboy85]

mike in your experiance are leos more agressive durring mating then motoros? my motoro has normally not bit up the female when he mates, and now when my leo is mature, she is completly beat up... tons of pieces missing i felt so bad that i put up a divider.

 

[cjfrontlovr]

mine are just in a pissy mood for some reason..i guess mating has finished but they all seem "touchy" towards one another..

 

[DavidW]

They are not really territorial but they will compete for space, the less space the harder the competition, and in a tank a ray can't escape aggression, so it is more than would occur in the wild. We all get a little pissy if we're in a tight crowd for too long, no matter how good the food

 

[Nic]

I believe its mother nature at its finest. If you look at pretty much any animal in he wild, the mother or father will be the "protector". Sometimes its both parents, and sometimes its neither. But again thats mother nature doing that.

What? you do relize stingrays will kill and eat there young in a tank right?