I am pretty new to ray keeping but I have 2 mini's from Aquaman45 (Richard) and have seen his standard sized pups also.
From reading some of the comments about whether they are true mini's or just small specimens I have put some data based on humans to
put a little perspective. I know that we are completely different to rays but I thought it might help lol
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the male 5th height percentile is 5ft 5in and the male 95th percentile is 6ft 2in, with the 50th percentile being 5ft 10in,
that's a deviation of between 4 and 5 inch. Meaning only a 7% range around the 50th percentile, with rough figures.
Now rays may be very different to us humans but my 4 month old mini's are only 2/3 the size of a standard ray new born with a four month age difference.
Now I with my limited experience I figure that a average sized female is 18 inch in disk diameter, using only a 7% deviation the size difference would only be
an inch and a quarter from average.
I know a lot of people with better information may be able to state that there is bigger deviations but I just wanted to put some figures behind the statements to compare
and get other peoples opinion. I feel that if the deviation is great enough they could be true mini's which may have occurred from environmental circumstances.
People on here know far more than me though so I would be interested to see what sizes they can produce so proper statistical data can be put together.
just my noob opinion though