Our Rays

Below is a photo of several of the rays in our breeding systems along with a little information about them.  These rays are not for sale; they are kept for breeding.  We currently have 10 breeding females 6 breeding males (Current as of 3-14-10).  

 

We currently have many rays in our systems.  We are continuing to expand the breeding project as much as possible.  This has required us to develop a system to identify the rays.  The first letter in the code denotes species ("M" for motoro, "C" for Castexi).  The second letter denotes captive bred or wild caught ("W" for wild caught, "C" for captive bred).  The third letter denotes sex ("M" for male, "F" for female).  The number in position four is a unique batch number that helps us track the rays and avoid inbreeding.  The last letter identifies the individual ray in a batch. 

RAYS IN SYSTEM 480 #1 

The 6 rays in this system are our most established breeding group.  All 4 females have had multiple litters of pups. Litters are generally larger (6 or more pups).

 

Foods this ray eats:  Smelt, Shrimp, Nightcrawlers

Foods this ray eats:  Smelt, Shrimp, Nightcrawlers

Female Motoro MWF0C has been with us since June 2005.  She has a disk width of about 18".  This photo shows her when she was very pregnant.  Notice the hump on her back.

Foods this ray eats:  Smelt, Shrimp, Nightcrawlers

Female Motoro MCF1A is a captive bred ray.  She is about 18" in diameter.  She had her first litter of pups before she was 2 years old.

Female Motoro MWF7A

Foods this ray eats:  Smelt, Shrimp, Nightcrawlers

Female Motoro MWF7A was obtained from a friend who had to give up his rays.  She has had many litters of pups.  One of her recent litters here contained 12 pups!

Foods this ray eats:  Smelt, Shrimp, Nightcrawlers

Male Motoro MWM0A was the first ray to join our systems.  His disk width is approx 16".  He has fathered several litters of pups at Amazon Stingrays.

Foods this ray eats:  Smelt, Shrimp, Nightcrawlers

We obtained this mature male motoro in a purchase of 5 adult rays.  He bred one of our females after being here only a few weeks.  I believe he is captive bred, but am not 100% sure that this is correct, as he had been in several locations before arriving here.  If my source is correct, he was bred in a public aquarium.

Food this ray eats:  Smelt, Shrimp, Nightcrawlers

We've had this ray for quite some time.  She was originally purchased from a store in the Lansing, MI area.  We traded her to a friend in the Summer of 2007, and got her back in April, 2008.  She is quite large (over 20" disk width) and seems very comfortable in the new tank.

Food this ray eats:  Smelt, Nightcrawlers

This ray is one of the first we ever imported.  She is about 13" across now, and has been in this system the longest.  She is fairly active and the addition of the new rays does not seem to have bothered her.

Food this ray eats:  Nightcrawlers, Smelt

This ray was the female part of a breeding pair we purchased from a local friend.  She had one litter of pups for him in late 2007 or early 2008. 

 

This is one of our captive bred rays.  She does not have a stinger and has a very short tail as a result of an injury she received as a pup.  She is very active and one of my favorite rays.

 

This is a breeding female we obtained from our friend, Eric.  

 

This is a breeding female we obtained from our friend, Paul.

Food this ray eats:  Nightcrawlers

This motoro came with MWF16A.  They had one litter of 3 pups for their first owner.  This guy is no longer picky about food and eats smelt like all my other rays (except of one stubborn marble, not listed here yet.  He is a very dark motoro and is a nice addition to the system.

Food this ray eats:  Massivore Pellets, Smelt

This motoro came here with MWF18A (sadly she died from a parasite issue).  They had a single litter of pups for their previous owner.  He has the brightest orange spots I have ever seen on a motoro.  He is still small, about 11" across or so.  He is much darker now.