Common Name: Blotched Fantail Stingray
Species Name: Taeniura meyeni Müller & Henle, 1841
Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean: Red Sea, southern Japan, Lord Howe Islands, Australia, also the eastern Pacific Ocean: Cocos and Galapagos Islands
Size: Up to 50 in (125 cm) wide and 132 in (330 cm) long
Natural Environment: Inhabit lagoons and outer reef slopes and sandy tidal flats
General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 82°F (22 - 28°C) and has a natural diet of worms, shrimps, hermit crabs and small fishes. Requires a meaty diet, preferably live grass shrimp, worms and/or crabs. Needs fine sand to bury itself in. Should receive at least several feedings per week. Not often seen in the trade because of its size. Better left in the wild.
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.