In the past few months, several freshwater stingrays have been sold in the market as flower rays. I bought several of these so-called 'flower ray pups' and after obsessively looking online for pictures of the real 'flower ray' pups (that is the term used for stingray babies), I found that what I got mostly were hybrids of P. motoro and Potamotrygon sp. 'mantilla.' Another thing I learned is that there are probably only two sites that have photos of what a Potamotrygon schroederi 'pup' looked like. Today, I finally got hold of my first two true flower rays.
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