FW stingrays, and a couple of puffer ???'s

[02redr1]

hello, i'm new to the forum and just had a couple of questions....
i was keeping a couple of freshwater puffers with the rest of my tank for a couple of day until one day i woke up and they had taken nips out of the fins of almost all my fish.....is there anyway that i can keep them from doing so?? it seems like if they are fed often enough that they don't do it quite as often but isn't that worse than putting them in a seperate tank (30G)...
my tank that they were in
120g
big filstar and an emporer 280-f/ old tank, two 300w heaters temp @ 80* F
1 african knife
1 "dragon" fish
1 fw stingray
1 pacu
1 oscar
2 kissing gourami
2 tiger barbs
2 cats
1 fire gourami
2 crabs ? haven't seen them in awhile..wonder if they were eaten
1 common pleco
3 silver dollars
1 red finned barb
planted back wall...

right now they are in a seperate 30g tank with an emporer 280 and kept @ 80*F

also...anyone know how to train a stingray so that they can be touched and/or hand fed?? best food for this?? my stingray seems healthy and eats well, seems to be happy..... eats shrimp bits, dead feeders, and sifts for brine shrimp and bloodworms.....what can i hold that it can get at and will come up to get? earthworms possibly???

thanks for any advice

 

[diVer]

Puffers will always shred the fins of pretty much any fish kept with them. They can't be trained not to, it's their nature.

 

[DiXoN]

you would just keep hand feeding it and when it gets used to you it will take food from you.

i dont recommend keeping plecos with ray as pleco like to suck on the disc stressing out the ray

 

[FishDan]

The only way to keep puffers from harassing your opther fish is to keep them in a seperate, puffer-only tank. Most puffers are not good community fish. And many will not be overly friendly with their own kind either.

I don't know much about stingrays, other than that they are fragile fish, and they are bottom dwellers so are probably not the best candidates for hand feeding. Unless you plan on reaching nearly all the way to the bottom of the tank. That's just my opinion. Like I said, I don't know much about these fish.

\Dan

 

[SirMinion]

If you have puffers in the tank with crabs, I think it's safe to say that the crabs have gone to the big rockpool in the sky (via the puffer's bellies)

 

[Nickdaf311]

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