I have a couple tanks, and ive recently been seeing more and more people buying rays. I was just a little curious, i was thinking about starting a ray tank. Ive been reading a little bit, just wondering what some good sites were to check to read up on, and learn about them. Like what size tanks are the best i know very large tanks, but also like what all i need to put in the tank, how many rays are well, good tank mates stuff like that. And how much everything costs, i want to buy the best equipment though... yeah, thanks
new ray owner
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yeah i read them i still have a couple questions, it says 75 gallon is ok for small rays, but i saw people with like 250g tanks for little rays....how fast do they grow? And i saw you should always watch it eat...so it would be bad to order it form like aquascape or an online place?
theres only a couple vendors trust worthy, they should be on the stickeys. but in my opinion go to ur lfs and watch the ray eat and check it to see if its healthy. 75g is ok for starters but your better off building your own tank, only because when you buy them they are so limited and cost so much. if you build one make the width and length really big as they need alot of room to swim. normally it will take up to 3 years for them to hit full size. but they can grow pretty fast. any more question you can ask mike from h20 costum aquatics his email is waterguy9@aol.com or you can look at the threads and find some experts such as nic.
also if you are ray shoping go for the larger ones. they are more money but they have a better chance at surviving. (ive gone through about 5 baby retics to only have 2 survive) unless if you want to go for a big challenge then chose the babys. even though they are risky it means alot just raising them form the start.