World record Freshwater ray.

[HandsomeDevil]

I ran across this while researching the Giant Whiptail rays of thailand, only this one is from the Amazon, I thought it was amazing.


http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/...st=sutton_keith&page=g_col_sutton_naree-naree

 

[proaquatics]

i would have released it with a tag to keep track of it

or put it in johnptc tank lol

 

[wetsock]

what a shame! RIP
thats a monster! have anyone kept those rays?? i never seen any spiny tail rays ever

 

[HandsomeDevil]

Yeah I kind of cringed a bit when I read the part where he said he is going to return and try to catch another. What if they are an endangered species, it seems like they may be undescribed still.

 

[tank125]

I guess Miles has some more info for his thread now!

Fun read, seems such a shame that people fish for animals for sport and then hang them up and smile for a photo? Makes no sense to me.

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

i would have released it with a tag to keep track of it

or put it in johnptc tank lol

I was a bit disgusted when I saw the ray in the pic with him standing next to it. Then I read where he said that they were unable to release it as it had been hooked deeply and died soon after landing it. I think otherwise he would have released the ray.

 

[HandsomeDevil]

Did anyone else find it interesting that he caught it using a live piranah as bait? I had always heard that Freshwater Rays are not big fish eaters and prefer shellfish and custaceans.

 

[JD7.62]

I posted that article a while back. Its a P. brachychura I think. My father in law is from Paraguay and he said he has seen these guys well over 2meters (edit I ment 2m not 3) in width!

 

[AttackFish]

Did anyone else find it interesting that he caught it using a live piranah as bait? I had always heard that Freshwater Rays are not big fish eaters and prefer shellfish and custaceans.

Well due to the ray being so large, unlike say, a motoro.
It had probably taken on larger prey like fish instead of smaller crustaceans.
I'm just thinking it would be hard for a ray so large not to eat fish and other large prey as it would take quite a while for it to fill up on smaller things a motoro or other smaller rays would eat.

 

[Miles]

I remember this article.. and I remember laughing about how the guy 'assumed' it was a world record, when there has been lots of P. Brachyura sited as being MUCH LARGER then the one he caught..

BTW.. P. Brachyura are alot more like Paratrygon, in which they are piscivores and ambush predate on other live fish..

Most Potamotrygon become 'pinnacle predators' of their ecosystem when they become full grown adults.. as youngsters, they are more 'scavangers'..