I've only been a member for a few days. We keep some cool fish. 2 black arowanas, a tesselate morey, green spotted puffers, and lots of others that are less important to bring up here. When we got our aros the manager of the fish store told us that a stingray would go ok with them. he suggested we get one actually. We looked into it a bit and found a few reports that occasionally a ray ends up killing other fish, I'm assuming from feeling threatened. we also found that they all grow quite large. I see here that there is a lot of breeding being done. Very cool! btw!!! What size tank do a pair need at adulthood? I am assuming here they would be better off with a very large squarish tank to optimize ground space. There also seems to be lots of people here in New England that have a hard time deciding what is what when it comes to species. So if we were to go out to purchase a "teacup" we could end up with something that gets quite large. Just would like more info please and some opinions. I am not running right out to get one, but have always found them interesting. Also how do you sex them?!? (just for my own knowledge) There is the kid thing going on here (4 children) and we have rules about not owning exotic animals that see us as a food item, so for instance there aren't any crocs here, lol, no reticulated pythons, or burmese pythons, Can these guys be handled safely? We deal with the Black aros and the eel safely. Im thinking it is probably similar, you know don't be stupid, take necessary precautions. and thanks in advance
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what do you mean handle? its not like you can get them out lol. males have claspers and females dont, which is how you sex them. there are some pics on the site if you do a search. are all the fish you mentioned before in the same tank? i assume not as the moray is a sw (reef i think) fish and tetraodon nigroviridis is a brackish water fish. the smallest of the rays are Potamotrygon scobina, hystrix and reticulata. the scobina is the smallest at 12" (and most seldom seen to buy) and the other two can get to be a couple of inches larger. pretty much all other rays are 24" or more. yes you are right, footprint is better than height for rays. retics are the ones most commonly called a teacup ray, although the term is also used for any unidentified small (baby) ray. a lot of people keep them with a wide variety of fish. what tank dimensions do you have and that tank occupants
Well I have a lot of tanks but the point I am trying to ask about is what size tank would suit best for the most common species available. And I'm talking here about manufactured tanks as I really don't have space to wall off a room (that's not saying I wouldn't like to mind you). I ask in this way because frankly we always get a pet with the idea in mind that it will likely need such and such for a tank and always simply go up in size as needed. I have also thrown out a couch to make space for a tank (yep major addictions here). Our current largest is a 125, but within a year we will need at least two 220's, and are very prepared to go there. We aren't newbies, if that was what you were thinking. We don't have a tank running right now that is less than 55. So we have a 55, four 75's, a 92 bow, and a 125. oops I lied I have a 30 hex for two fantail goldfish. And yes we have freshwater, brackish, and salt and will be getting a reef going in the 92. I read some of the stuff written here about the rays and what they like, and now I understand at least part of the reason, that rays were suggested. We have Black arawanas Osteoglossum ferreiri, and they are quite particular about water quality, so are the rays, and so are clown loaches, which were also suggested to us. We went with the loaches, as we didn't know much about the rays at the time and it seemed to us to be too big a leap forward at the time.
When I'm asking about handling, I'm talking about care (No I don't plan to take them out of the water and kiss them and hug them, lol. (feeding, does food have to be brought to them (like for instance my Morey who has poor sight) or will they search out the food for themselves. Is tank cleaning difficult to accomplish with them in the tank. If we have to change them to another tank...what is the best method to move and catch them, I'm thinking nets could be a serious issue here?
When I'm asking about handling, I'm talking about care (No I don't plan to take them out of the water and kiss them and hug them, lol. (feeding, does food have to be brought to them (like for instance my Morey who has poor sight) or will they search out the food for themselves. Is tank cleaning difficult to accomplish with them in the tank. If we have to change them to another tank...what is the best method to move and catch them, I'm thinking nets could be a serious issue here?