P. schroderi - Flower Ray - Who has them?

[tank125]

A couple shots of my young ones, demonstrates how different their color can be as juveniles. These guys are about 4.5-5" disc size. They eat about an ounce or more of live black worms every day each. I am trying other foods, but they have not been interested yet. All in good time!

 

[stingray94]

Very nice. I am going to have to come down to your shop some time to get a look at all of these rays. I haven't been able to find the time and I want to get all of my tanks and everything situated but I will be coming down soon.

 

[jdepasqu2]

First captive bred flowers in the US? World?

I was wondering too if they could be incorprotated into a breeding program....., I know that it would be cool to try to keep the pattern and colors of this ray but breed it down in size for the home aquarium.... I know Miles is plannin on doing this with other rays....

So if they mature at sizes that can be handled in .., lets say a 8x4'.., then they could be breed with other rays around the same size... to try to start the process....

What does everybody think..... Mike??? Anybody thought about what ti would take......

 

[Nic]

i think somebody actually needs to breed flowers first before they can be made hybrids...

 

[African_Fever]

Bumping an old post for some more input.

I brought a total of 8 flowers in over 4 weeks ago, and of those only 3 remain (not all with me). One is eating very well (about 8"+) with another ray keeper, and I've managed to keep my two (4-5" and 8-9") alive this long. The smaller one is really beginning to attack chopped earthworms (and nothing else), while the larger one hasn't touched a thing since she came in. She's getting to the point of skin and bones, and it's really disheartening seeing such a beautiful ray whither away like she has.

A question to those with experience keeping flower rays: Have all yours been acclimated by someone else, or did you get them almost directly wild caught? And were they large or small when you got them? I had everything from about 4" to 8-10" come in, and size didn't seem to make much difference as to which survived.

They're such a beautiful ray, and I'd just about give up all my motoro's to have a tank full of flowers (yes, I understand how large they get and have full intentions/plans of meeting their needs), but so far at 2 out of 8 surviving captivity, the money is going to add up pretty quickly.

I've attached a pic of the larger flower when she came in over 4 weeks ago.

 

[Rayfan]

in asia, these are called Sakura Rays. The season is different from black rays.
Prices are about three times cheaper than black ray.
Very difficult to breed in captivity.

 

[tank125]

Revive - C'mon, who's got em?

African Fever - How are those 3?

 

[BigJ]

Where did you US guy's find them?

 

[sebarau]

waiting for Kamisan to jump in.. he just imported 20pcs flower direct from colombia.. ..no DOA.. and now still in Q tank....looks healthy only one or two on the skinny side. these will then join his tigers 12 of them in his pond.. hehe

 

[African_Fever]

I imported mine myself directly from Colombia; the three that survived the first few weeks are still alive and doing excellent. I still have two, and the third has since changed hands to another MFK member. Still by far my favourite rays, and I'll hopefully be bringing in some more in the next month or so. I had no DOA either; it was just getting the rays to eat that seemed to be the largest problem with those who lost them (I was lucky and the two that I kept both survived).