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10-12-2007, 05:40 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
Posts: 3,859
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Hello fellow reefers!
This is the closest place to post this since I don't think there are many of you that have sharks or stingrays, especially, in their reef tanks.
At any rate, I was on my way home from work and decided to stop at one of the local pet shops, to avoid sitting in traffic.
Yeah, I went in thinking I was going to get some more carbon, food and a few more Yellow belly Damselfish...and get out of the store having spent a mere $30.00 or so!
Well, after pacing the floor and seeing all the nice fish, inverts and Caribbean live rock for JUST $6.99lb., the reef/marine tank addiction took affect as no drug was going to deter me from not buying something...
Ya-de-da-da, I know, get to the point? OK, already, so as I was coming around to the last couple tanks, I noticed something in one of their tanks housing a couple pieces of live rock!!! This was one of my dream picks and it caught my eye like nothing before...
A beautiful Yellow Stingray(Urolophus sp.)!!!!!!!!! about 6" long and wide! WOW, it was awesome and I had never seen a saltwater ray for sale or in any pet shop before. Always in books, or public aquariums, or ocassionally stepping on one in the Gulf of Mexico as I vacation down in Clearwater Beach, Florida.
So, of course, I bought it and it will go in my 75 Gallon tank for the time being! Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, She's a beaut!
So that is my story and I am sticking to it... About.com: http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=9&i=167 _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
"IF THE PHONE DOESN'T RING...IT'S ME"  jb  | 
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10-12-2007, 06:14 PM
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| | Longfin Fairy Wrasse
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 44
Posts: 2,348
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PICS DUDE!!! We wanna see!!!!!!!!!!!! congrats on your new addition!!!!!!  _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
R.I.P. Big Blue 12/02-10/22//07
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10-12-2007, 06:25 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
Posts: 3,656
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SWEET DUDE! becareful with your other fishes _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | |
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10-12-2007, 06:38 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
Posts: 3,859
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I just have a Naso Tang and a Niger trigger and they are 4" in size, so no worries for now!
Next step is to train it to eat out of my hands so I can pretend that I am at Stingray City in the Cayman Islands!!! hahaha
I can then charge admission...
I know, I have to be careful of their stinger(barb)!
Thanks guys and I will get some pics as soon as I get my camera! | |
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10-12-2007, 06:45 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
Posts: 3,396
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*can already see the headlines now "CT man stabbed in the heart by stingray" _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." Andre Gide  | 
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10-12-2007, 07:25 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 2,980
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Nice addition, congrats! Make sure you let KOgle know how it goes because he took one back after having it in his reef tank for a week. He was worried about his corals.  _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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10-12-2007, 07:36 PM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,081
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Awesome, Tom...Congrats!! I know what you mean about the addiction kicking in.... _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
1 Hawkfish
2 Percs
1 Kole Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Leather Toadstool
Long Polyp Toadstool
Orange Sunshine Polyps
Montipora
Acropora
Frogspawn
29 gallon
1 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Yellow Fin Fairy Wrasse
Cleaner Crew
24 FOWLR
Pearly Jawfish
Firefish
Starry Blenny
55 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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10-12-2007, 07:42 PM
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| | Longfin Fairy Wrasse
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 44
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see now that was just wrong LMAO  Quote:
Originally Posted by geekdafied  *can already see the headlines now "CT man stabbed in the heart by stingray" | | |
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10-12-2007, 07:45 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
Posts: 3,378
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Thats awsome. Sting rays are really interesting critters, lots of personality in their eyes O.o _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
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10-13-2007, 02:19 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
Posts: 3,859
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Hahahahaha!
Not going swimming with it in my tank...
Otty, this is a fish only tank with a few frags of Xenia and Brown Star Polyps only so for now the coral issue is ok for now.
I have to train my ray to eat out of my hands!!!!!!!!
Oh, the fun we will have! | |
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