Sharing my new “red Lucy black diamond”!

[OnlyFinsCT]

I’ve been keeping rays for 18+ years. When I started with Ray keeping we didn’t have the morphs that you see in the market today. We just had pure p. Leopoldi, p. Henlei, p14, a few other cheaper varieties of brown rays and marbled motoros were just starting to be a thing. What a long way the hobby has come in that time…I’m happy to share a photo of a young “red Lucy black diamond” female that I just acquired. I’m working on putting some weight on her right now…she is the first Ray I’ve meet that won’t take a night crawler but is taking bloodworms very willingly and taking bites of shrimp. She’s a beautiful ray and I’m very happy with her.

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[danotaylor]

She purty

 

[DB junkie]

You've been out there keeping rays for 18+ years and never found this place?!??!! Learning curve had to be brutal.....

Crazy to think how much the rays have changed yet doesn't seem like anything else has - different rays, different people pushing them, yet doesn't seem like much advancement in terms of actual "keeping"......

Congrats on your happiness! Wishing you the best of luck with her. Very interesting looking ray!!!

 

[spotfin]

Interesting ray. Do Leos typically have eyes set that high?

 

[DB junkie]

Absolute godsend..... Good advice on ray-keeping simply didn't exist.

Good to see others out there still at it! Definitely not a lot of seasoned keepers still at it.

What else are you keeping?????

 

[OnlyFinsCT]

Absolute godsend..... Good advice on ray-keeping simply didn't exist.

Good to see others out there still at it! Definitely not a lot of seasoned keepers still at it.

What else are you keeping?????

My main interested are rays and turtles. I’ve got a couple of cool turtles right now, a fly river turtle and an albino Chinese softshell. For other fish I also keep discus although have started to get away from that, tiger moray eel, blood parrots, severums.

 

[troublesum]

Lucy in the sky with diamonds