Teacup Stingrays!

[StingrayKid]

Hi everyone! Does anyone out there own a Teacup? Lemme hear about them! I absolute my little guy!

 

[Eelzor]

I would seriously kill for one of those...

How big is it? (Quite a small tank )
And how much did it cost?

 

[CFC]

There is no such fish as a tea cup stingray, this is just a generic name used by importers and lfs for small unidentified and often low quallity stingrays, usually P.motoro or P.hysteryx.

 

[ryan]

Teacups are not a species of ray and the name is used to describe rays as CFC said and also as a common name for a particular size, of small ray (these could be Retics, Humerosas, or Histrix...). Why this is called 'Teacup' I have no idea as the rays are normally 8"+ not 3"!

EDIT: Is he in a 30 gallon tank!?

 

[StingrayKid]

Yes, he is. He's really small right now so, he's okay. And I don't know what species he is right now because he's reffered to as a "teacup". And 8'' is his MAX size.(not that big) so, he's okay in the 30. Whatever.

 

[StingrayKid]

Oh yeah, he was $50.00

 

[ryan]

I must stongly disagree, the smallest species I know reaches 12" in diameter of 30 cm. These are Potamotrygon histrix and Potamotrygon reticulata, are these your rays? A 30 gallon is no were near big enough for a ray, I would recommend at least 75-90 gallons with a big foot print.

 

[StingrayKid]

I'm really not sure what kinds of rays you're talking about, but the ray I bought from the store has an adult size of 8 inches. But, if it gets too big, like you seem to think, I'll buy a larger tank.

 

[ryan]

Here are several species, can you ID your ray from any of these photos, if not do you have a pic?
Potamotrygon motoro

Potamotrygon leopoldi

Potamotrygon histrix

Potamotrygon sp.

Potamotrygon menchacai

Potamotrygon brachyura

Potamotrygon henlei

Paratrygon aiereba

Potamotrygon reticulata

Potamotrygon castexi

Plesiotrygon iwamae

 

[StingrayKid]

It looks somewhat like the Potamotrygon sp.
My ray does not have the large light brown spots though...

 

[ryan]

Well Potamotrygon sp. sometimes called a Chocolater Ray has a disc up to 18" wide so you would need an even bigger tank than I first suggested. Is it possible for you to get a photo?

 

[StingrayKid]

I'll see what I can do

 

[ryan]

How about Potamotrygon laticeps?

A pic would help.

 

[StingrayKid]

How do I put my pic into the response, ryan?

 

[ryan]

Upload the file on here http/www.imageshack.us/ and them simply use the