Freshwater Stringray Care

[T1KARMANN]

Teacups are also the most sensitive and very hard to get feeding

Teacups are the cheapest at about $60 for £50 but they are all wild caught and very hard to get feeding

Teacups are where most new comes to rays go wrong they buy them at a very small size 3-4" disk which is only a few weeks old and they die so they think rays are hard to keep

The best starter ray is a motoro they are very hardly and you can get captive bred for about £90-$100 but the problem is the get the biggest

A small motoro in a 6x2x2 tank will out grow that tank in under 1 year

As for food a captive bred will eat frozen prawn or even pellets

 

[T1KARMANN]

Does anyone know what water params the black diamond rays need?

I have 2 black diamonds and I would advice you to start with them as they cost over $2000 a pair

Rays can live in a wide range ph from 6-8

They can also tolerate high nitrate of 200ppm

They can't handle ammonia or nitrie

They can't handle and meds with cooper in so its a good idea to use a uvs

 

[T1KARMANN]

This is a video of my rays feeding


http://youtu.be/TJyyivy19Y0

 

[Clownfishlover]

Thanks! How much space does the montro ray need?

 

[T1KARMANN]

Long term a motoro needs a 8x4


Marble motoro are nice and stay a bit smaller males also stay smaller of any type of rays

Min tank size for a few years would be 8x3

 

[Clownfishlover]

Thanks!

 

[cgthebeast]

This is a video of my rays feeding

http://youtu.be/TJyyivy19Y0

DUDE. That's the tank that got me into fish keeping, that's what my goal is for that hobby. It's so great that your own here, truly fish keeping at the best. Thank you for getting me into this hobby.

Back on topc now

 

[Clownfishlover]

I'm finally ungrounded from fish!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TheCommunityCichlid]

Dang you were grounded for a long time, what did you do?

 

[Clownfishlover]

Hit my brother with a fowl because he told me they were just fish and I didn't need to spend that much time caring for them:/

 

[FishBoy185]

Hahaha this is a very interesting thread!

 

[FishBoy185]

Good luck with the research of your stingray! Glad to see you researching and not just going to the lfs and buying a stingray and sticking it into a 20 gallon aquarium like some people would do.

 

[cgthebeast]

Hit my brother with a fowl because he told me they were just fish and I didn't need to spend that much time caring for them:/

Ahh it was worth it iMO. Mabye it knocked some sense into him.

 

[Clownfishlover]

Lol I hope..... You'd think football players would have enough sense knocked into them but apparently not!

 

[cgthebeast]

This is sounding a lot like my bro haha. Evil devil.

 

[Clownfishlover]

Well I have to brothers who only like animals once there dead usually

 

[cgthebeast]

Well I have to brothers who only like animals once there dead usually

Wow, taxidermy hobby right there

 

[Clownfishlover]

Nope more like eating them

 

[cgthebeast]

Hmm, I can agree if it's steak haha.