Back to the Basics: Best Ray Food

What is everyone feeding their stingrays and why?? What's good/bad about it?

For me, the food needs to meet certain requirements:
1. Highly nutritious for stingrays
2. Easy to store
3. Low cost

What food meets all of these requirements the best??

I'll start. I feed pellets, primarily, and shrimp/snails/superworms as treats.

I believe pellets meet all of the requirements except "low cost". Hikari Massivore is found cheapest when bought in bulk (2.2 lb bags) at $18/lb. Hikari Sturgeon is cheaper, but still high at $10.50/lb.

I am looking for a cheaper alternative. Plus, many times it proves extremely difficult to convert rays to pellets.

I have and they eat it, but not as readily as massivore. I believe it's only slightly cheaper, but NLS is known for top quality foods. That's all I fed my trophs and petros back in the day. That said, I have a huge container of it and only feed it when they've been starved for a little while so I know they'll eat it.

mustang93svt said:

Homemade gel food. My motoro loves it as do almost all my other fish as well. http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?358778-FireMedic-s-DIY-RaY-FooD&highlight=firemedic

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Yeah, that stuff is great. Just a bit time-consuming and messy to make. I make batches every so often and freeze what they don't eat right away.

doyboy said:

Feed mine on mostly massivore and sturgeon pellet plus sinking gold, once a week they get king prawn and earth worms. Find the massivore creates alot more waste from the fish but the growth rate and condition of the fish is much better when on pellet. Just my opinion.


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Quick question... Have you found any packages larger than 2.2 lb (1kg) for mass or gold? Or larger than 4.4 for sturgeon????