Common Name: Southern Stingray
Species Name: Dasyatis americana Hildebrand & Schroeder, 1928
Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: New jersey to the northern Gulf of Mexico and to Brazil, including the Antilles
Size: Up to 80 in (200 cm)
Natural Environment: Inhabit sand flats, seagrass beds, lagoons and reef slopes. Buries in sand during day and hunts at night.
General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 65 - 76°F (18 - 24°C) and has a natural diet of worms, shrimps, crabs and small fishes. Requires a meaty diet, preferably live grass/glass shrimp, worms and/or crabs. May fast for weeks before eating. Needs fine sand to bury itself in. Should receive at least several feedings per week. Requires a large aquarium with much open space.
Aquarium Suitability: * * * *
Anemonefishes - Angelfishes - Anthias - Assessors - Bannerfish - Basslets (Dottybacks and Grammas) - Batfishes - Blennies - Boxfishes - Brotulas - Butterflyfishes - Cardinalfishes - Catfishes - Cuttlefish - Damselfishes - Dartfishes - Dragonets - Drums - Eels - Filefishes - Flashlight fishes - Flatheads - Frogfishes - Goatfishes - Gobies - Groupers - Hamlets - Hawkfishes - Helmut Gurnards - Jacks - Jawfishes - Lion fishes - Livebearing Brotula - Lizardfishes - Mollies - Moorish Idol - Parrotfishes - Pinecone fishes - Pipefishes - Porcupine fishes - Pufferfishes - Rabbitfishes - Rays - Sand Perches - Scats - Scorpionfishes - Seabasses - Seahorses - Sea Moths - Sharks - Shrimpfishes - Snappers - Soldierfishes - Spinecheeks - Squirrelfishes - Surgeonfishes (Tangs) - Sweetlips - Tilefishes - Triggerfishes - Trumpetfishes - Wrasses
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* - Suited for the reef aquarium;
** - Better suited for the fish-only aquarium;
*** - Better left in nature;
**** - Needing an aquarium larger than 125 gallons; and,
***** - Needing their own private environment/special tankmates.