Stingray prices

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ultimatejay said:
Why are stingrays so expensive when they are one of the easiest fish to breed? I've seen total noobs breed them. I don't get it. Someone help me understand.


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There's also people that have been keeping them for half a decade and haven't produced more then a half a dozen pups. Doesn't make me feel very good. :(

Maybe you can help me understand how it's so easy????
 
DB junkie said:
There's also people that have been keeping them for half a decade and haven't produced more then a half a dozen pups. Doesn't make me feel very good. :(

Maybe you can help me understand how it's so easy????
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Let's see.... Let's take the simple silver arrowanna. I have never heard of anyone breeding them in a private tank. And if it has been done it is very rare. Small silver arro- 15 bucks. What about Goliath African tiger fish or saber tooth, both rarer than most stingrays but are not bred in captivity and both are cheaper. I've seen first hand people breeding stingrays in small tanks. No eggs to deal with and the pups are born are pretty hardy compared to fish fry. Stingrays are all over the place so there is plenty of them do why are they still fetching relatively high prices. I dont get it.


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Small litter sizes(compared to thousands of eggs), expense of shipping (large containers), expense of food ( a prego female ray will eat a LOT). The expense of shipping really only applies to wc rays, you can ship a ton of fish in a box but only a few rays.

Aros are so cheap because they are mouth brooders you catch one adult aro and you get 100s of babies. The expense of raising them would be more than the expense of catching and shipping them. I don't think they would be hard to breed.
 
johno27 said:
Small litter sizes(compared to thousands of eggs), expense of shipping (large containers), expense of food ( a prego female ray will eat a LOT). The expense of shipping really only applies to wc rays, you can ship a ton of fish in a box but only a few rays.
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Exactly and very well put.
 
They are not cheap to buy and keep

If you buy new born pups it will take you 2 years + to bred them

The size of the litter is small so not much return money

It's not just the price of buying the rays you have to take into account it's the price of the large tanks they need

If you think you can bred and sell them cheap go for it


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T1KARMANN said:
They are not cheap to buy and keep

If you buy new born pups it will take you 2 years + to bred them

The size of the litter is small so not much return money

It's not just the price of buying the rays you have to take into account it's the price of the large tanks they need

If you think you can bred and sell them cheap go for it


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Well said. If they were cheap, everyone would have one in their tank...for about 6 mo. then it would out grow the tank (if it lived) and your LFS would refuse to take it and then the hobbiest would...Not to mention ALOT of LFS would tell people they can live in a 55g. tank, sales would go up, rays would die...vicious cycle starts again. If something is expensive, you are gonna research it and you are gonna be sure (hopefully) you can house it.
 
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