Tin foil barbs with a ray?

[takagari]

Getting a baby moto soon. And was recently given 5. 3 or 4 inch tin foils.
They are a nice looking fish and seem harmless. Would they be okay with a baby ray?

Thanks

 

[celebrist]

My tinfoil's put their mouth on everything but they are nice looking imho

 

[Peckoltia]

I tried it but found the tin foils would nip at the end of the rays tails. I ended up having to remove them. I wouldn't recommend it from personal experience, but I have seen others do it successfully.

 

[litigator666]

My rays hunt them down one at a time with just traces of silver scales remaining.

 

[murray8698]

I had 6x 9-10" with 3 of my rays. My big female took out 4 within the first week of them being together, only ate the heads though. They were also nipping at the end of their tails. I thought it was a good idea but i was wrong. Most successful tank mates thus far for myself have been Jade goby's also known as fathead sleeper goby.

 

[takagari]

Well the ray I'm getting is the same size,
essentially have 2 tanks, have a piranha, who needs his own, so tin's either go in with ray, try to find a new home. or go in with my monster.
Mixed experiences seems it's worth the try, I'll see how it goes.

I really wanted a larger schooling fish in with the ray.

 

[jim barry]

Tin foil should be fine imo, but safety in numbers I have found. I have lost the odd one when rays were smaller and so were the tin foil. But I now have 8 full grown tin foil and the same number of rays and everyone is fine together.

 

[fishguy306]

I used to have a school of tin foil barbs, I think I had 6 or 7 or them, they were all pretty large, 6"+ each. I found they scared my rays. The barbs were jumpy and always darting around. The rays hid in the sand a ton more because of it. I gave them to someone else as soon as I could.

 

[takagari]

Ya, I'm going to try it and see how the ray does. If all else fail's, I'll rehome the barbs. but hoping they can play nice and get along

 

[moosemj]

Yes please! I live my tonfoil barbs. Good at cleaning up after the rays. Move a lot. Never had issues. That being said, you will have them disappear or killed on occasion.