blue spot stingrays?

dad

dad

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I have been trying to find out more about these guys. What i have found is that they are easy to keep, grow up to 10", Like live goldfish several times a day, light requirments and water flow not needed?
I just want to know if they are reef safe, lol
Not sure if they will eat a cleanup crew or not?
Any advice or knowledge about them?
Not really wanting one, just courious, ;)
 
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daniel411

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Originally posted by dad
I have been trying to find out more about these guys. What i have found is that they are easy to keep, grow up to 10", Like live goldfish several times a day, light requirments and water flow not needed?
I just want to know if they are reef safe, lol
Not sure if they will eat a cleanup crew or not?
Any advice or knowledge about them?
Not really wanting one, just courious, ;)
LOL, I'll assume thats all a joke. Shawn Michael has a good book calle Sharks and Rays or Aquarium Sharks and Rays. You're find some good info in it.
 
harlequin

harlequin

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well I dont know what you are reading but take it and throw it away because its telling you totally bad information. First off. Blue Spots are the hardest ray to keep. They generally will not eat in captivity and will starve to death. Secondly you never feed saltwater fish goldfish or any other freshwater feeder fish for that matter. It causes liver disease. Any reputable writer would know that and recommend against it.
 
sammystingray

sammystingray

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I never really recommend them because they are pretty tough to keep alive. I would also recommend they go into a dedicated tank with NO rocks at all. Their skin is so soft that they will scrape on rocks and cut themselves pretty good....I just had like two rocks when I started keeping yellow stingrays, and they managed to cut themselves to shreads on them.....had to come out. My advice, a tank ATLEAST 125 plus, no rocks, and a proper grain size sandbed of about 4-5 inches atleast so they can bury themselves. They aren't "tough guys" and a lot of cleaners can tear them up trying to clean them, or tear their eyes apart since they stick out of the sand when buried. 10 inches is way off. I would guess more like 16 inches head to tail. Silversides would be a better choice in my experience. Seemed to be what most of mine liked after trial and error. Seriously, blue spots are tough to keep, and yellows are the only ray I would ever recommend. They have no place at all in a reef tank.
 
sammystingray

sammystingray

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BTW, I kept them with fish before, and the only interactions were certain fish messing the ray up. They were seperated. On one single occassion, the ray slammed a dragon wrasse up against the glass and held him, but they were quickly seperated, and the wrasse was removed.
 
dad

dad

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Thank you,
Just needed to ask, lol
Extra gifts in the xmas socks this year. ;)
 
sammystingray

sammystingray

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Stingrays should also NOT be kept in Christmas stockings, stockings lack the proper environment, and the shock could......OK, just kidding.:jumping:
 
temple2101

temple2101

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wow ... my LFS has a blue spot ray currently ... with lots of fish in the tank (green chromis, blue hippo tang, some large wrasses) also, about 30 - 40lbs of rock. It's probably a 180 - 240gal tank ... but man, poor guy, I always look at him when I go in ... looks like he's slowly declining. Stupid LFS...
 
sammystingray

sammystingray

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I think the trouble with the dragon wrasse was that he was large, and the ray and him were the only things that were both eating silversides...just my guess, other than that, my rays never messed with a fish...just that one time, and he was in the tank with the wrasse for months before that. I wonder if the wrasse didn't smell like food because he just ate some silversides?? I don't know, and I can't remember.
 
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