Marble Motoro questions

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I have no experience in keeping marble motoro, but have always admired them. Always wanted one, but had to wait for a bigger tank.
Pics are attached, and would like all opinions on whether it’s got potential to be a top grade marble. The males in the group had much more spots, but slightly less marbling. But I wanted a female.
Is there any way of knowing at this size 5 inch, what they will turn out to look like?
Will it be ok to house with a 8 inch Leo male for the first year?
Only other bottom dweller is 12 inch Tig.
Thank you in advance for any responses. :D

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As ive read through DB Junkies thread, there is mentioned several times that marbles can change drasticly from 10" and out. So i gues at 5" its difficult to know. As for having together with the leo i dont see any problem there! But chop the food so as the smallest once can eat everything you put in. If you put some big bites in for the leo, i have seen several times that the small once(marbles in this case) take the big bites, and throw them around for some time, when they give up, everything else is already eaten.
 
your fish is going to change but one thing I can say is that you have some very high quality fish to choose from there. The marbling appears to be very vivid on them. You should have no problems keeping the rays together. If you plan on breeding eventually I would recommend getting the female as you will need more females than males in the end. But those all look great man if you have the money I would take them all, they have amazing marbling for that size.
 
Like i said ade go for it you do run the risk of it changing when its older but you know its coming from a good supplier
as for the size it will be fine i have a 5 incher and its in with 2 8 inchers and it gets well stuck in at food time.
 
Thanks for all comments.
Dparks: they are all the same
Ray in those 3 pics. She is female. Just different lighting.
 
I was eying them up yesterday but didnt have the funds
leoXMarble coming in a year or 2
 
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