Adding Flower Ray to marbled Motoro Tank - Few Questions

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Hi All,

My wife loves flower rays and it looks like we are going to be looking to add one to our ray tank - marbled motoro group all mature breeders.

Few questions for those of you who have them?

I have read slower growth rates is normal - what rates you noticed?

I know they are sensitive rays so it would be in QT and seperate for quite a while until feeding aggressively (planning on a couple months minimum), how are they once established?

What do you guys think, male or female would be best? I like the fact a male will likely not get as big as a female but my marble male is quite aggressive and I do not want or desire another ray like this as it will make housing everyone happily very difficult.

Any other suggestions / advice would be appreciated. Tank is 96" x 42" footprint.

Thanks!
 
They grow probably an inch a year from what I have seen with my pair. The only problem you will have is finding one large enough to survive with you larger marbles. Usually the biggest you can find imported is about 8 inch. Your best bet is to find a 10 inch established one as the larger they are wild caught the harder they are to acclimate and if you buy a small wild caught then you will have a couple of years invested before it can hold its own with breeder size rays. I do not see the bigger rays hurting it but they will top it and stress it out plus eat all the food before it can eat.
 
Thanks for the info, just what I was looking for. This was what I concluded from most of my reading but always good to get the info from someone actually keeping them!
 
There is only a handful of people on the forums that have successfully kept flower rays. Most either kill them or sell them before they kill them LOL! They are a very nice ray and if you can get one and keep it happy you will be rewarded when they sprout their true colors.
 
^Agree^ Only thing I would add is if it has a long beautiful tail it is apt to lose part of it from the larger more aggressive feeding rays.:(
 
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