Suitable rays ?

[CC_N]

I'm finding a ray for my dream built's fish list and there are two types that are kind of "suitable. Its the Round stingray and the native blue spotted ribbontail. The tank will be 7ft long and 32' wide. It'll be a fish only system.
Are ribbon tails really that hard to keep ? There's a video from a guy that have a pair of them living in a "Floating" rock work.

 

[SlugSnorter]

I'm finding a ray for my dream built's fish list and there are two types that are kind of "suitable. Its the Round stingray and the native blue spotted ribbontail. The tank will be 7ft long and 32' wide. It'll be a fish only system.
Are ribbon tails really that hard to keep ? There's a video from a guy that have a pair of them living in a "Floating" rock work.

rays are a real expert only. Only keep if you have lots of reef keeping experience under your belt. Lot goes into keeping them, I would recommend doing some heavy research and building your tank around them if you are dead-set on keeping them

 

[BanjoBandito]

I've kept freshwater rays, and speaking from that experience - you need lots of room with a good sandy bottom so they can bury themselves, so a tank with wide open bottom (hence the floating rock work in the video you mentioned). They'll eat about anything they can get their rays around too, crabs, snails, clams, fish, etc. They are also very sensitive to nutrient levels and PH fluctuations and need sparkly clean water...they eat like pigs so over filtration is key. I'm assuming you mean "32" as inches, not feet. A round ray can hit nearly 2' in length and have a disc of 12", you'd be better off with a blue dot.

 

[Garia666]

Wesley has some nice rays

lymma stingray

you can see his tank and fish here

REEF OF THE MONTH - December 2021: Wesley's Reef - A Floating Masterpiece

R2R Username: @W.vreeswijk Build Thread: Tank w.vreeswijk Let's jump right in! Tell us about your system! This home was built, and we had our aquarium built into the wall with all equipment being put into the garage, so no dirty smell of the skimmer anymore for my wife (Happy wife, happy...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[CC_N]

rays are a real expert only. Only keep if you have lots of reef keeping experience under your belt. Lot goes into keeping them, I would recommend doing some heavy research and building your tank around them if you are dead-set on keeping them

This is like the 'fish on the fringe" of mine. I'll try to make lots of sand area by using pillars.

 

[CC_N]

I've kept freshwater rays, and speaking from that experience - you need lots of room with a good sandy bottom so they can bury themselves, so a tank with wide open bottom (hence the floating rock work in the video you mentioned). They'll eat about anything they can get their rays around too, crabs, snails, clams, fish, etc. They are also very sensitive to nutrient levels and PH fluctuations and need sparkly clean water...they eat like pigs so over filtration is key. I'm assuming you mean "32" as inches, not feet. A round ray can hit nearly 2' in length and have a disc of 12", you'd be better off with a blue dot.

I'm having two black diamond and a motoro.

 

[CC_N]

Wesley has some nice rays

lymma stingray

you can see his tank and fish here

REEF OF THE MONTH - December 2021: Wesley's Reef - A Floating Masterpiece

R2R Username: @W.vreeswijk Build Thread: Tank w.vreeswijk Let's jump right in! Tell us about your system! This home was built, and we had our aquarium built into the wall with all equipment being put into the garage, so no dirty smell of the skimmer anymore for my wife (Happy wife, happy...

www.reef2reef.com

this is exactly what im gonna built from. Maybe supporting it by some pillar.

 

[BanjoBandito]

I'm having two black diamond and a motoro.

So you get the water quality and space issues. Those are the big ones.

 

[CC_N]

Yeah but they aren’t fully grown yet. Btw I kept them in a pool