"Teacup" Ray ID?

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Fish Tank Travis

Fish Tank Travis

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Hey, my LFS has a "teacup" ray available and when I asked what type, the girl told me it was a reticulated ray. Can any of you tell from the pictures below if that is correct?

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Sorry, not the best pictures but the little guy is about 3-1/2" disc size right now.

Also, if this is a reticulated ray, can you please let me know how big these guys get on average? The girl told me they only get to 8-9" but I want to check here before I take her word for it.

Thanks all!
 
Retic. If it's male it'll still get 1'+ and a female will get 14" if given enough time.
 
Thanks for the quick response. I think that it is a male because I think he has claspers.

Do you think a reticulated male will do well in a 220gal tank for life? It is a 72"x24"x30"H.
 
Fish Tank Travis said:
Thanks for the quick response. I think that it is a male because I think he has claspers.

Do you think a reticulated male will do well in a 220gal tank for life? It is a 72"x24"x30"H.
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Yes it takes a very long time for these to completely max out and 14" it can take you 5 years if you even have the fish still.
 
Ihsnshaik said:
Yes it takes a very long time for these to completely max out and 14" it can take you 5 years if you even have the fish still.
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I hope he keeps them a lot longer than 5 years. My females are 4 years old and about 13 and 12 inches in diameter. My male is three years old and only about 8 inches in diameter. They are all incredibly healthy and breeding for me.
 
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I may consider a pair but I need to do more research on them first.

I already plan on keeping at least one fire eel in the tank, and 8-12 discus. There is a possibility that I might have a second fire eel in there and those are my main inhabitants that I am setting my tank up around. I currently have two at about 6-7" long right now and they get along great. However, if they begin to get agressive towards each other then I will have to find a new home for one of them. I am hoping that since I got them both at about 4" long and they will be growing up together that they will get along well.

Anyway, do you all think that one reticulated male would work in a tank like that, if so, could a pair be ok as well? It would be pretty great to breed them and, if successful, I know I could easily sell them to the LFS.

Thank you all for your insight. I am really hoping that at least one reticulated ray will work out, but I don't want to get one if it will be poor conditions for it.
 
viper0397 said:
I hope he keeps them a lot longer than 5 years. My females are 4 years old and about 13 and 12 inches in diameter. My male is three years old and only about 8 inches in diameter. They are all incredibly healthy and breeding for me.
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That's awesome I say this because like many of us on here we go through a lot of fish phases and switch up the tank a lot. My oldest fish I ever kept was a f1 Midas and f1 red devil about 7 years and Midas was already 2-3 years old and RD was about one year old when I got them. I had to let the male go he killed the RD after breeding for a year or so and he kept hurting himself in my tank. Constantly running into the tank and it's a 200 gallon so enough space for him. He ended up going to a guy with a pond with peacock bass and all sorts of Giants
 
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Fish Tank Travis said:
I may consider a pair but I need to do more research on them first.

I already plan on keeping at least one fire eel in the tank, and 8-12 discus. There is a possibility that I might have a second fire eel in there and those are my main inhabitants that I am setting my tank up around. I currently have two at about 6-7" long right now and they get along great. However, if they begin to get agressive towards each other then I will have to find a new home for one of them. I am hoping that since I got them both at about 4" long and they will be growing up together that they will get along well.

Anyway, do you all think that one reticulated male would work in a tank like that, if so, could a pair be ok as well? It would be pretty great to breed them and, if successful, I know I could easily sell them to the LFS.

Thank you all for your insight. I am really hoping that at least one reticulated ray will work out, but I don't want to get one if it will be poor conditions for it.
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Anyone have any thoughts on my stocking plans? Am I trying to put too many bottom dwellers in the same tank or do you think that a reticulated ray, or pair of Rays will work in the 220gal?
 
I have a pair of marbled Motoros in the same size tank as yours. Male is 11 inches, female is 10 inches. I have a pair of full grown zebrina like in there as well. A pair of four inch rotkiel Severums and 6 grown wild angels fill out the mid water. I have 5 satanoperca in there that I'll remove as they grow up.

I do water changes of 50 percent weekly and I have a ton of emerged plants growing hyroponically out of the water.

Water Paraameters are perfect.

I think you will be fine on your bio load of you have plants sucking up nitrate and you keep up with filtration and water changes.

My 180 has 10 grown wild discus, a hystrix that is 6 inches in diameter. Four leopoldi Angels, a pair of dwarf pikes, 11 columbian tetras, a rainbow wolf fish, and a pink failed chalceus. I have a ton of floating plants that suck up nitrate.

The key is plants, filtration, and water changes.
 
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