Stingray In An SPS Tank

[straydum]

stumbled upon this on thereeftank.com and personally its an eye opener to me unfortunately there isn't a tank thread for this, so just 3 pictures to share

[yikai]

possible. why not.

he's not keeping any fishes. so it's ok. the bioload for one stingray is equivalent to many fish.

and if you feed it well, no problem.

abit unorthodox but it can work.

of course i won't reccomend it. these kind of oddballs are best left in the ocean.

[peacemaker]

I like the stingray's "floating" effect though. Quite a sight to behold in a big tank. Definitely not for nanos.

[skinbone]

I wonder how he is going to frag or put his hand in to stick his sps. Lol.

[yikai]

I wonder how he is going to frag or put his hand in to stick his sps. Lol.

why not? sting rays do not attack on sight.

in fact, they rather flee than attack.

[straydum]

after a little researching it turns out that it doesn't really matter whether the ray is reef safe but rather whether the tank is safe for the rays. there are plenty of cases of rays injuring themselves on corals.

it seems quite stressful for the ray to keep hovering around non stop if there isn't a large enough open area for it to rest. other people who keep rays in FOWLR tanks all scape towards maximum areas of sandbeds and adequate space between the rockwork for the rays to go through.

[AloysiusMun]

Quite cool though!

[JizzHut]

Likes.. Looks like manta ray

[DUCADOS]

Stingray needs open space for resting n covering itself with sands.Having corals like this is possible unless tank giantic big else either Ray no rest time if not it will make sands all over the corals lol