My new male reticulated!

[tank125]

If he eats well you are all set! Nice tail! Good luck!

 

[Nic]

you can just keep black worms in the tank... it wont hurt anything...

 

[Conner]

Well, there are lots of other fish in the tank, so they get gobbled up pretty fast if I just drop them in. I spot feed my stingrays using pipettes, after I have distracted my other fish somewhere else in the tank.

 

[Nic]

your best bet for a ray that skinner is to have hime alone

 

[Conner]

I've got a 30g sitting empty I could set up as a temp home for a while. Would that be better? I put my female in the big tank in nearly the same condition and she got fat pretty fast. I make sure to pipette feed under the front of their disk until they get enough and swim away from me.

 

[avishay]

Very nice ray - I like his paterns. Make sure he gets the food - if he is eating you are the right way to have a good mate to your female. Good luck.

 

[FishDog]

Once he is 100%, you will have a nice little ray family.

 

[Conner]

Well, my male and female met for the first time just a minute ago. She moved up behind him, sat on his tail with her nose on his "hips" for about 45 seconds, then turned around and leisurely made her way back across the tank. Very uneventful first meeting (read: good).

How do first meetings between rays usually go? Is there anything I should look for that would be worrying, other than the obvious one of them violently attacking the other?

 

[turkeyboy85]

just make sure that he is eating and that she doesnt steal all the food

 

[Conner]

Does anyone know how old/large reticulated stingray have to be before they are sexually mature? I'm not in any hurry, but other people have been asking me, and I'd like to know myself.