and it will only be like 1-2 feeders a week just to the armatus a week NOT THE RAYS until im able to train it to eat what the rays do!
any body feeing live feeder fish to rays
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Well, I am no expert of rays by no means and have received most of my infor on rays from this fourm, but I feed my rays minnows from the bait store from time to time and they love it, and I have never had an issue.
Get your hands on Hikari Krill. I trained all my Armatus on Hikari krill and then they went to smelt no problem. I couldn't train my tats as I couldn't find any Hikari krill and none of the other brands worked. I didn't try to starve them to long as they were small but your armatus is big and should be able to go two weeks without food if its healthy. It also helps if you had some big dither fish that would also eat the krill to help train it. Try and find some big tin foil barbs. I trained mine with gold tinfoil barbs and silver dollars. Once they were eating the frozen I got rid of the dithers! Mine pounds at least 6+ big smelts in one sitting.
Before I got rays, I fed my community tank of aro, clown knife, loaches, etc. Feeders and tropical crisps. Big mistake because after the third batch of feeders went in, I had fish lice everywhere in the tank... Never again
In the 80's I worked at a tropical fish hatchery in Houston Tx. that supplied a good number of pet shops in the area. There were occasions that we would get 1M+ feeders at a time. Most of the time they were healthy as could be and would see very few losses and sometimes they would drop like flies. Even on the better batches of feeders that were received it would not take long to find several anchor worms and I am sure they had other parasites.
Feeders were packed into tanks on the truck from Arkansas so thick you would not be able to see an inch down and were supplied with pure O2 for the ride when they arrived they were put into concrete ponds not quite as cramped but still at a level that was not condusive to keeping healthy fish. No bio filter except the alge that grew on the pond walls but they did have a constant water drip from the well.
I would think every larger city has a distributor with similar set up for the feeders, or they get flown in to the shops directly usually 500 to a box. This is still very cramped and enough that if one feeder is sick they all will be shortly.
In the end it is up to you. Personally I would not use feeders unless there is no other option. and then they would have to qt. for at least 2 months before they would see my tanks.
Feeders were packed into tanks on the truck from Arkansas so thick you would not be able to see an inch down and were supplied with pure O2 for the ride when they arrived they were put into concrete ponds not quite as cramped but still at a level that was not condusive to keeping healthy fish. No bio filter except the alge that grew on the pond walls but they did have a constant water drip from the well.
I would think every larger city has a distributor with similar set up for the feeders, or they get flown in to the shops directly usually 500 to a box. This is still very cramped and enough that if one feeder is sick they all will be shortly.
In the end it is up to you. Personally I would not use feeders unless there is no other option. and then they would have to qt. for at least 2 months before they would see my tanks.
well i fed the armarus 3 feeders and than it took a frozen smelt! so i have no need to use feeders anymore.
thanks for your guys experiences,im not familiar with the fish lice your speaking of? i have seen the lice that do come on rays sometimes same thing?
thanks for your guys experiences,im not familiar with the fish lice your speaking of? i have seen the lice that do come on rays sometimes same thing?
