Black Rays with white spots - Average Price

[fishpedagogue]

Hello I am new to stingrays and am thinking about my next ray already. Right now I'm the proud owner of a motoro stingray. I'd like to venture into the realm of owning a black ray. As far as the black/ polka-dot rays what's the cheapest, (e.g. Leopoldi, Black Diamond, Henlei, etc.) ? I'd be interested in a pup. I know that these things can be expensive, I don't know how some of you guys afford these black rays. You must have deep pockets. If someone could list the top 5 black rays (cheapest to most expensive) based on the average price for pups/young adults that would be great!

 

[FishDog]

P14 $1500 and up
Black Diamond $1000 to $1500
Classic Leo $800 to $1000
Henlei $500 to $1000

 

[ExoticsXtreme]

I would say....

P14 $1400 and up
Black diamond $1400 and up
BD/LEO $1000 to $1300
Classic Leo $800 to $1000
Henlei $500 to $800
Pearls $500 to $800
Flower $250 to $500
Marbles $250 to $500
Motoro $100 to $125

 

[PSA]

Prices you guys are quoting are off on the black diamond pups especially quality pups atleast
P-14 pups $1400-$2000
BD pup $1800-$3500
Leo pups $800-$1200
Leoxbd$1200- up
Henleixleo$1000-up
Henlei $500-up

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[Anderman]

Shop around and you can get better prices! I couldn't even sell a BD/LEO for $700 so I ended up trading it for other fish! There is always hobbyists selling rays below those prices mentioned.

 

[B_IN_SD]

3500 for a quality bd pup from overseas then add 500 shipping to the states plus any transhipping fees. and dont forget you have to get 2 minimum. That is what I was told by a vendor. I was scared to ask about the really really nice bd prices.

 

[freshfishing]

High quality captive bred BD's are going for $1700 to $4500 each right now for QUALITY and HEALTHY specimens. You can easily get low quality healthy (or unhealthy) BD's for less.

 

[ExoticsXtreme]

I see some bd on the classified now for $900

 

[FishDog]

Regardless if they are $1000 or $3500 still highway robbery. They catch the so called cheap brown rays out of the same river and sell for $100. They are not rare and even with IBAMA jacking things around you can still find more black rays on the market then you can motoros. So the high prices are driven by the sellers not by demand.

 

[DB junkie]

Shop around and you can get better prices! I couldn't even sell a BD/LEO for $700 so I ended up trading it for other fish! There is always hobbyists selling rays below those prices mentioned.

Priceless. We're discussing vendors selling skinny rays in one thread and here you are telling people to shop around for better prices.......

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the shopping around for better prices leads directly to the skinny rays.