To tell the truth it's very hard to tell when they are pups
A female may look stunning as a pup with big close tight spots but as she grows the spots spread out making the spots look smaller and less of them
Unless the get thousand island lots of small spots then they don't look as nice as adults
A higher grade bd must have all the bd traits belly spotting and light colour eyes along with good disk edge spotting and thousand island
To be honest no one can grade a bd apart from the points I mentioned above it's all down to the buyer as what some people like others hate like eclipse spots
Some bd are even down graded to Leo/bd just because the don't have belly spotting
It's a buyers market now so breeders can't sell a ray at a high price unless it has all the bd traits
As thousand island spotting doesn't normally show until the ray is older it's hard to pick out that trait in pups so you need to see the adults to determine if a pup will get them as a adult
If you like a rays spotting and the price is right buy it if not walk away as another will come up you like at some point
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