Stingray breeding/keeping

[Frazer86]

Ive owned a male marble ray for just over a year now and recently bought 2 female rays to keep with him. Ive now been offered a mature female marble and was hoping i could introduce her to breed with my male but need some advice first.

1. Can females be introduced after having pups with a different male and still breed with the new male?
2. I currently have 2 females and 1 male, will having a 3:1 ratio cause any problems?

Might seem like daft questions to some but id rather check first before buying and then running into problems.

 

[smitty03281964]

Have you heard of any reason why a mature will not mate with a male. I never heard of that. It would be new to me

 

[KNH]

1. Yes. 2. No. You're fine

 

[Frazer86]

Thanks, i kept oscars and jacks in the past and know once they paired up that was their partner for life. Just didnt know if stingrays were as fussy

 

[festaedan]

You'll be fine. Its good that that female already had pups so you know that she is mature. With females its hard to tell for sure. 3:1 ratio isnt bad but if there are 2 or more males it entices them to breed. I have a mature male marble and 2 females. One is mature and one isnt. He shows 0 interest in breeding with either.

Thanks, i kept oscars and jacks in the past and know once they paired up that was their partner for life. Just didnt know if stingrays were as fussy

I had a jack breed with a jack and then bred with a Texas. Some are more loyal than others

 

[spotfin]

1. Yes. 2. No. You're fine

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Is that a really big fire eel in your first pic? Nice looking rays.

 

[john C]

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Is that a really big fire eel in your first pic? Nice looking rays.

 

[john C]

Totally missed that lol. Gotta love a big eel.

 

[Frazer86]

Ye thats my fire eel

 

[jim barry]

Shouldn't be a problem as the others said. Really nice rays you got especially the black but then again I am biased toward black rays lol.
Got to ask though, how big is your tank? It looks a little small width ways in the 1st picture.. Probably fine but the wider the better if your intention is to breed.