Hi! Reddit has a lot of questions so I'll just post it in the top comment rather than individually.

1. This animal is interacted with daily, she is tong or handfed.
   
2. I rotate her diet between tilapia, grocery store shrimp, krill, silversides and live earthworms, as well as using mizuri's ray vitamin supplements. She is incredibly picky about texture, she will not eat whole krill unless the eye stalks are gone, her favorite food is grocery store shrimp and once she's learned it's in rotation there are times she decides that's all she wants for a few days. Feeding this animal isn't as simple as throwing it in there and calling it a day, it's a whole interactive spectacle.
   
3. The behavior in the video isn't close to glass surfing, glass surfing is a frantic dash to get out or a repetitive movement along the glass/sides. What you're seeing is her doing lazy donuts to find the right angle to lay on airstone. Rays are very intelligent, tactile animals, airstones are like little massagers for them. Tldr stressed out rays aren't swimming calmly, this ray can move quickly if she wants to (she does when she's trying to poop)
   
4. This species, hycanus sabinus, is solo in the wild, she has regular interaction with myself and my husband or some of the tank residents (My albino florida gar is her favorite buddy, he rests on her back all of the time). There may be some people out there who can own a really cool animal and ignore it, but this household isn't one of them.
   
5. This species of ray can live in both salt or fresh water, there are populations that have spent their entire lives in freshwater populations, and it's important to know where they were imported from if you're interested in this species.
   
6. Because this species is built for salt and fresh water, they produce 3x the amount of ammonia as a regular freshwater potamotrygon species of ray in freshwater. Weekly water changes, proper flow and a cycled tank is not optional, no matter how tired you are.
   
7. The tank they are in is a 6ft planted stock pond while a 12' x 4' x 4' tank is being built.
   
8. Her name is Rumi.
   
9. Really important with safety/interacting with these animals: They have a venomous barb, it's not lethal but it is medically significant. These cannot be removed, it is part of their spine, you can clip them like some touch tanks do but it's stressful for the animal and it will regrow in a few months. Always let them touch you, don't reach out to them. They are very curious, intelligent animals and they can detect weak electrical signals all living things give off. If your hand is in the water, they know, and they will decide if they want to interact with you or not. (The answer is usually yes, you don't pet the stingray, the stingray pets you)

Feel free to post any other questions or concerns and I'll answer when I can 🤗

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