Himantura chaophraya

[JDistad_Hoff_Productions]

Hello Monster Fish Keepers. Does anyone know of anywhere in the U.S. where I can see a giant Thai freshwater stingray, Himantura chaophraya?

 

[pupumole]

some vendor on another forum had em

 

[Oddball]

Sad new news:

The IUCN Red List assessments for Elasmobranchii (updated from the 1996 Red List of threatened animals) considered the following species as:

critically endangered:

Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus), freshwater sawfish (Pristis microdon) in South East Asia, smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) in Northeast and Southwest Atlantic, largetooth sawfish (Pristis perotteti), Brazilian guitarfish (Rhinobatos horkelii), giant freshwater stingray (Himantura chaophraya) in Thailand.
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[pupumole]

i heard they successfully bred these in farms ._. is that news true?

 

[Oddball]

No

That rumor came into being from film footage of a captured adult giving birth under stress in the capture net.

 

[pupumole]

ecz has one for sale right now

 

[Oddball]

I thought his were H. bleekeri. There are over 2 dozen other species of Himantura.

 

[ShadowStryder]

At the bottom of his listings he does list the H. Chaophraya on bottom of first page as one of the
5 species he has access to.

 

[pupumole]

ya.... and this time it specifically says its a mekong giant ( and first one here in US ) it 16-17"

 

[ichtus6877]

ive had a mekong cat with a giant freshwater stingray