Stingray relocation

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90% of the Atlantic rays in the market are not from the FW population and will end up dying or having major issues. Even the FW population don't do well long term in captive settings. To live in FW they produce a massive amount of urea to keep their body at equalibrium with the environment. Most tanks/systems don't have the volume to keep up with it long term.
I know a lot of FL people who just go 'collect' whatever they want for their home tanks. Usually it's done illegally (without the proper permits). Just wondering the origin of this one... was is truely a river caught animal or was it just sold that way.
 
as zoodiver has stated, it is not considered legal to just go catch one and drop it in your tank. you would still need to go through your local officials for the ok. a fishing permit does not give you the ability to keep a live specimen, you would need alternative documents for that.

also, theoretically, not sure how well a motoro and atlantic would do together. my LFS had an atlantic in a tank at their store for months, and got a motoro female shipped in last week. in the same day it was placed in the tank, it had killed the atlantic ray. it also gave birth to a pup shortly after, so it could be thought of eliminating a potential threat for its offspring, but i can't be certain.

regardless of the "fully FW atlantic rays" in the st john river, the reason they don't die of ammonia poisoning is because they have a vast amount of free flowing, replenishing water to dilute their urea output. your tank does not have that same amount of water to do so.
 
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