P. Falkneri keepers?????

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Not even a Castexi.. it's a cheap brown ray from Peru. Cost about $5-$10.. Someone got ripped off. No surprise, though..
 
stingray94;1685364; said:
Miles, where do you get cheap brown rays for $5-$10?
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A guy named Aldo in Iquitos.. ship them to Lima ($20), Ship them to the US ($40), and wholesaler sells them to LFS ($20).. and your have yourself an $80 cheap brown ray..

Brown Peruvian rays cost next to nothing out of the wild, they are overly abundant and people kill them to keep the beaches clear.. $5-10 is usually what the 'fisherman' request per ray to the collectors and exporters. Motoros aren't much more expensive.

I used to get dozens of these rays in each import.. patterns vary, but they are all collected from the same few areas in central Peru.. they have nicknames for them down their, something like "garbage" or similar.. H'rm.

Rays like Falkneri, Hystrix, Castexi, Flower, Tiger, Leo, Henlei, etc.. are all very distinct, and cost a few hundred out of the river. They come from known locations, and are often caught per request via fishing line.. It will feed a family for weeks. The collectors know the difference between garbage rays and feeding their family.. so it's a tell-tale sign when the asking price is below market value on a 'rare species' because the fisherman know the values and wouldn't let income slip through their fingers..

Cheap brown rays are caught with cast nets and separated out like most the other fish, thus the treatment that 'teacup' rays endure is less than magnificent..

It's just so amusing that people are mislabeling rays to fool less knowing people into paying higher prices.. and then the ones that try to brag about the rare mis-identified fish.. haha
 
thanks for the reply miles, I would have imagined that rays right out of the river would have cost a lot more than that
 
looks really light to be a castexi... but you are in no way capable of supporting this ray... i dont think you grasp how quick and large they grow bruce....
 
I feel very sorry for the abundance of "fish" you are acquiring with what seems to be very little knowledge of the care they need.
 
Stingray94 ~~ Just some more info, it shocked me when I started getting into this years ago.

A tranship (direct to you, no wholesaler and hence no retailer) cost on a "Teacup" is $4.50 each. That is w/out shipping, BUT after the transhipper and supplier make money on it! Peruvian Motoro's are around $20.00 before shipping.
 
Nic;1691678; said:
looks really light to be a castexi... but you are in no way capable of supporting this ray... i dont think you grasp how quick and large they grow bruce....
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i worded that wrong.... supposed to be looks like a really light castexi not what i said...:screwy: damn lack of sleep :nilly:
 
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