Large Leos from Dallas Zoo

[reverse]

Look at the size of these leos, pretty impressive. Not my pictures, from a gun board that was posted today.......

[stingrayguy]

NIce!! But im pretty sure those are henlei

[reverse]

You are most likely correct, anything black with white spots is a Leo to me...........sorry

[Beun]

Nice, yep Henlei :)

[amazongirl]

Are you sure these aren't really from Dallas World Aquarium, not the zoo?

[reverse]

Are you sure these aren't really from Dallas World Aquarium, not the zoo?

whatever, just LOOK at the rays

[Nic]

LOL some nice rays...

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Nice, take those turtles out thou!!!!

[JK FARM]

very nice henlei

[Brent]

nice ones

[Kevaldo]

very nice, lets hope they have a male for them.

[Bogwoodbruce]

Very nice heneli the turtles shouldnt be in there though.

[JD7.62]

I think the zoo/aquarium knows what they are doing. Besides, from what Ive see with rays, Id be worried about the turtles! The rays dwarf them!!

JW, can you link the thread to the gun board? I love seeing what "non-fish" people have to say!

[TLkmDN]

hey guys sorry im a ray noob but wats the difference between leos and henleis ???

[Bogwoodbruce]

hey guys sorry im a ray noob but wats the difference between leos and henleis ???
I think that Leos have 2 extra rows of spines and have much creamier spots, also heneli has lots of smaller spots around the edge of the disc and on its underside.

[andersp90]

I think that Leos have 2 extra rows of spines and have much creamier spots, also heneli has lots of smaller spots around the edge of the disc and on its underside.

The underside thing cant be used to tell if its a henlei or not.. Lots of leos have the same type of spotting under their discs too (like my male).

But if you look at the spots, you will be able to the a dark ring around the wite edge.. Only henleies have that.. :)

[Kevaldo]

leo's are usually much blacker also.

[sixpack_ey]

Yes, this is Dallas World Aquarium. And they've had those turtles in with those rays for at least the last five years.

[Zoodiver]

Are you sure these aren't really from Dallas World Aquarium, not the zoo?

Uh huh. DWA for sure (I helped build that pool in the pic). Leos are back in a pool attached to the croc pool. Been breeding them since I was there back in 01-03ish.

Hens (pictured) are in a pool we did to originally introduce the 1 year old Orinoco croc offspring. I haven't talked with them in awhile, but I don't think Hens are being bred a this point.

All ray pools there have turtles and other fish in with them.

Erica - shoot me an email sometime, I have a question for ya. :) And thanks for taking care of my old intern a couple weeks ago. :headbang2
(sharksandcrocs @ live.com)

[Zoodiver]

Dug out some pics to compare the hen to the leo pools.
Hens are in a smaller area with small podocnemis spp (turtles). Leos have a little more room - and are in with silver aros, red devils and uaru cichlids, mata mata and podocnemis unifilus (yellow spotted Amazon turtles).

Heneli:

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc218/LilRoush/Fish%20Pics/DSCF0534.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc218/LilRoush/Fish%20Pics/DSC03643.jpg


Leopoldi:

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc218/LilRoush/Fish%20Pics/DSC02044.jpg

[flamenco-t]

very nice, lets hope they have a male for them.

Ooh they do, they have over 30-50 babies in their breeding facility..

stan

[Zoodiver]

Babies DWA has now are from Aq of the America's breeding program in an effort to diversify gene pool.

[abortedsoul]

You are most likely correct, anything black with white spots is a Leo to me...........sorry

:iagree:

lol, when I read that comment, all I could think is that it looked like a weird Leo. :ROFL:

[stingray man]

Great rays but they are deffiantly henlies

[ewurm]

Forgive my ignorance, my book hasn't arrived. How do you identify Leopoldi vs. Henlei?

[reverse]

Great rays but they are deffiantly henlies

Great ID on a thread that is 8 months old


Congrats

[abortedsoul]

Leos, indeed. :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

[angelo21]

those are pretty nice rays!