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avishay

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Hello,
I have bought this beautiful male today. He is a wild catch from Columbia. I think the seller thought he is a reticulated ray. After looking for a while I tend to believe he is caqueta ray. His color is redish, very nice pattern + fully developped claspers while he is only 12-13cm.

He looks to be in a very good condition, but I think that if he is caqueta he is quite hard to be brought up.

Any information could be helpful.

Thank you.
Avishay

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Yes looks like a red caqueta or red flower ray to me. Nice pick up. You need to find yourself a nice female now.
 
I think that although some call it red-rectic it is different in size (smaller than a regular reticulated ray). I have him right now with my 7 weeks old motoro pups and they are about the same size....

Does anyone think sex may happen between female motoro (grown) and a caqueta male? I wonder....

Avishay
 
If he survives he may mate with a motoro. I have had these in the past and they are flipping hard to keep alive. I've been keeping rays for 7 years and I still couldn't keep the dang things alive.
 
Big Daves Rays;3428077; said:
If he survives he may mate with a motoro. I have had these in the past and they are flipping hard to keep alive. I've been keeping rays for 7 years and I still couldn't keep the dang things alive.
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Your story is all too familiar Dave,ive been keeping Rays for the best part of 30 years and i had no luck either aswell as many of my friends too.Theres still people out there that insist this is nothing more than a nicely patterned Retic,i covered the differences between the two in a much earlier thread.I think the only chance anyones got of keeping them is if they have a constant supply of live river shrimps or mall fish,i even failed with the trusty old earth worm(night crawler).
It would be interesting to know if anyone out there has had success long term with this species.......anybody????
Good luck with yours,it looks a very healthy fish at the moment so its got a very good start for its new life in captivity.
 
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