Quick update on WC Marble Female

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How big was she when you got her back in Dec?

Very nice looking lady you got!
How are you preparing her foods for her to take tilapia and shrimp?

She hasn't grown much really... I chop up worms and mix in tilapia and shrimp in the juices of the worms. Blood, guts, and all... Seems gross but this is the only way I've been able to get her to eat anything but worms...


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Very nice!

I have a new food I am going to try with my picky male - Repashy's Meat Pie Fish Formula....some of the pups from the last litter of the superspot (5 weeks old now) are eating it like crazy! If it works I will let you know give you some!
 
I think she's big enough to breed. Think she might be a "mini marble"


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Your right! this is a mini Marble. She needs to be 12" disc to breed though, 9"-10" is a full grown male, my mini marble pair have done the business and I am now waiting for pups, Mom is 12" and looking very big for her first time.
Imported some of these from the wild 3 years ago, 2 females arrived gravid and dropped pups in the tank soon after, both females were 12" disc and the pups were tiny...3.5 inches but fully developed, just what you would expect from these smaller locality Stingrays.
 
holy hell..do you have pictures?

Sorry I don't! It was a while ago, I could have taken some at the time but have no idea where they would be.
From what I can make out these Marbles grow a little larger than Hystrix, the largest female I have personally seen was approx 16", males between 8-10" seems to be the norm, females reproduce regularly at 12" disc size. I currently have my mini Marbles in with my larger pair of Marbles, the size difference is ridiculous!! My largest female Hystrix past on a few years ago now, I had had her over 10 years and she had a 15" disc, the father was 10".
 
I had a pup born at my place from a WC female that was 8.5" across.....

There's definetly midgets out there, unfortunately there are also people out there that think we are crazy.

Believe the people talking or believe the people with these rays....... ;)
 
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