Hopefully Getting A 2nd 6x2x2

[bunjiweb]

Well as title I am hopefully getting a 2nd 6x2x2 to set up when I move house.

I am flaunting with the idea of stocking it with a ray, my BGK and my 2 Fire-Eels.

Would this combination work, and more importantly are there any rays i can realistically keep in a 6x2x2? Motoro or Leopoldi perhaps (smallest according to Baensch atlas).

Ben

 

[ringham]

I think that the combination of fish would be fine. But I don't think that keeping a stingray in a 6' tank would be enough, even if they are the smallest of the freshwater stingrays. But that is just my opinion.

 

[andywg]

Problem with a ray wouldn't be so much the 6 foot length, as the 2 foot width. Really want 30" for a ray.

Fill it with 200 neons...would be a site then, if a little bit of a waste...

 

[CFC]

Motoros and leos are some of the biggest traded rays with disc diameters of up to 24" so a 6x2x2 certainly wouldnt be large enough to house either for life, the smallest species is P.scobina which only attains a disc of around 12" but they are difficult to obtain and usually pricey.
As said to keep rays you really want a tank width of at least 30" and prefferably more, as my rays are growing i feel that the 30" wide tank i have isnt quite big enough and plan to upgrade them to a 8x3x2 tank sometime this year and eventually something even larger to give them the room they need to swim freely, happy rays are extreemly active.

 

[bunjiweb]

P. Scobina is actually the one I am looking for. I have seen it on a couple of import lists I might be able get them off. I am not going to go for a motoro, leo or retic as i know they all get too big.

The other ones people have mentioned to be are P. Ocellata and P. Hystrix?

Ben