New captive bred Black Diamond Additions - bred by Mark Huveneers
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OK, Here are some pics of some of the first rays that I bought from Mark, Mike, and a Singapore breeder over 2 years ago. The female is about 15"+ and the males are around 14". The tank system is about 950 gal including the two pup tanks in the stand (holding the new pups mentioned in this thread). The tank(s) run on a drip system 90% R.O. 10% Well water. Replaces about 10% of the system per day). Tanks are glass tanks from glasscages.com (poor service, poor workmanship, but nice glass). PH 7.1, temp. 80 deg. F. I run a UV Sterilizer, and about 60 gallons of submerged bio media. A Red Sea mech. filter. Both overflow chambers have over 10 gallons of bioballs as well. Lighting is LED. Pumps are QuietOne 1400's I believe. If you're counting, there are 11 captive BD's and they obviously won't all fit in this system long term. Over the next 15 months we are building a new house and I am putting in a system to handle the rays. I also have a 650 gal. pond running in our basement with some smaller fish and one of the adult male BD's - he will likely go in with the others again in a month or so. Thanks for your interest and let me know what questions, suggestions, comments you have. 
Second ray is quality no doubt! Let me guess it's a male? Nice setup!
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2nd one with the doughnuts is a female. These two were going through the motions about a month ago...but they haven't produced anything yet. We'll see.
