Which ray to choose?

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I have finally set up my tank and am trying to decide between the rays available to me. I will be ordering rays and my options are either 4-6" Guyana Rays (which I know will be a crap shoot as to which type I will be getting) or 3-4" retics. They will be ordered so are going to be site unseen.

These will be my first Rays and wanted to get some advice.

The set up is a 90 gallon, to upgrade as needed.
 
What are the prices and sizes? Unless the guyanas, which most likely will be humerosa or orborygini or if you are lucky a yepezi, are way over priced go with them. They will generally come in larger giving them the best shot at a chance unlike tiny retics...
 
DECISIONS DECISIONS!
 
Both the Guyana and the retics are at great prices, money is not a deciding factor in this case. I am just worried about not knowing which rays I will be actually getting.

I wanted to get 2 rays perferably M/F, does this change peoples advice? If I ordered 2 guyana asking for m/f what are the chances of getting the same type?


and yes DECISIONS DECISIONS:D
 
In my area at least guyanas always seem to be humeroas or orborygini but I cant tell the difference between the two so if you were in my area I would say chances are good.

Honestly though dont bank on breeding just yet. Your #1 priority should just be to aquire a ray or two that is healthy giving you the best chance to keep them alive. Besides you only have a 90 gallon and chances are the rays will be pretty young so i the very least you are going to have to wait more then a year before they bcome mature and in the mean time get them a bigger tank!
 
i bet hes gonna get them from tfd...i thought my rectics would be closer to 6" even tho they say 3"-4" but they are really like 4" and mine are fine and one of them even had fungus on its tail cause it broke and its better now they arrived nice and fat... but rectics seem to be easy rays even tho some people say they arent at small sizes...but i think its really up to you...i ordered 1 male 2 females and from checkin i'm 99.9% sure thats what i got...i could only find claspers on 1 ray
 
Ive told this sotry a million times but Ill tell it again:

In me experience retics are far more sensitive then other rays...well at least motoros. I had a retic for about 3 or 4 months. He was perfectly healthy, fat, eating everyhting I gave him, even had a perfect tail. He was about 5" disk size. about a3 weeks before he died I bought a motoro. The motoro was his size but deathly skinny and severly beat up as she was housed with jack dempseys, clawed frogs, RTC ect. Well they were together for a few weeks and everything was fine adn th motoro was gaining back her strength and about this time summer is rolling around.

I do my usua ever 4th or 5th day 50% water change and when Im done for some odd reason I decide to test my water and Im shocked to see that I have a high (about 1ppm) ammonia reading. Now before anyone says anything my tank was well filtered and had been running for over a year and Ive never had problems before.

Not knowing why my tank had that reading I decided to test my tap and sure enough I had alot of ammonia coming out of my tap! The next morning my retic seemd sick and five days later died. The motoro on the othe hand who still was far from 100% was never phased and survived....
 
OK, I have the perfect solution!! Get a few 180's and a couple 300's - - - Then get them all!! .....:ROFL: OK NO, don't do that. That's something I would do (and have done)... BIG responsibility! I'd say that if rays are totally new to you, do your research. Know what you have, and which ray could live (comfortably!) in your set up. A lot of people are so anxious to get stock that they just plan to upgrade later. Usually though, once they need to, they can't right away, and the animal suffers because of it. Just make sure you know what you are getting into. Ok, done preaching. With that said, get cha ray on already, LOL!
 
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