anyone ever witness this?

coyotethug

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I was feeding a dozen nightcrawlers to my rays and I just witnessed something very strange. My leo/pearl stole a worm from a motoro and it got stuck in his spiracle. He freaked out for a second then he sucked it through his spiracle and out of his gill and ate it! I didn't think there would be enough space but it was a full size crawler and the ray is about 8 inches in diamter. Anyone else ever see something like this?
 

cjfrontlovr

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yes, i have seen it many times when a ray is eating to many at one time.
 

turkeyboy85

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Blue Crab of PAIN!!!!;4124636; said:
8 inches... in diameter!?
Or did you mean length? :)

dia. read it again... the ray has a (dia) or disk size of 8"
 

CrAzYNeSs

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Yeah, happen to be before too. Once a huge ass one got stuck in my small male. Had to net him out, use a tong to grab that sucker out.
 

sbuse

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i noticed that happened alot with smaller food on my retics when i had them...
 
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