Rays at my LFS

[Fish Tank Travis]

Here are some rays that my LFS just got in:

Female



Male



The guy at the LFS has them labeled as marble motoros, but the female looks like something else. The male is $299 and the female is $399. Sure wish I had the cash regardless of the kind of rays. Lol

 

[Lepisosteus]

Definitely don’t look marble. Almost appear to be a blackxmotoro hybrid if I’m seeing it ok in the pics

 

[Exotic Aquatics LLC]

Definitely both hybrid. It's next to impossible to know for sure but I could see where Lepisosteus sees the motoro Leo mix. It does have a slightly darker base but this can change with time. I would say marble pearl, or motoro pearl.
It has a few spots that seem to be splitting, and has more of a sword/pointed tail. Looks some what similar to the marble pearls and motoro pearls I got in recently..

Excuse the glass and mess in the tank. This was the day after arrival, I fed them just before sorting them.




Hopefully this can give you some ideas as to what they might be. Time will tell, in a month or two they will look totally different, both the ones at your lfs and mine lol.

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

Yeah, I still wish I had the money and the room for them.

What do you think a good price on rays like the ones in my post would be?

 

[Lepisosteus]

All depends on where you are. Here you can pick up hybrids like that cheap. They are ordered for $50 each sold for around $200-$300. I see what Exotic Aquatics LLC is seeing though with the pearl. The fan tail would say BD mix for sure but is that tail type guarantee in black brown hybrids? To me the spotting looks like it’s from a black ray but they do look similar to some of the hybrids you have. I can see that possible for sure. The difference is that they look to be missing the halos around the spot. Either way, hybrids for sure

 

[Lepisosteus]

I do see black Motoro maybe pearl. Maybe marble/henleixpearl

 

[Exotic Aquatics LLC]

Lepisosteus I don't see the tail your talking about with the he LFS pics but the one I have I can slightly see what ya mean.. it' anyone's guess really unless you are breeding yourself. I would say for the bottom pic a fair price would be 2 to 250 and the top pic 3 to 400 seem reasonable. Again depends on who ya get them from and what they paid for them..
Either way both look to be good and healthy.

 

[fishtankphil]

Definitely not marbles, most likely Thailand hybrids!