LOL !!! an American pound is 16 ounces But ya a 16 to 18 inch female and prego is no Laughing matter!!!!!
stringray food costs
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My food bill is maybe $50. That is with pellets and all 16 tanks. That also is if I just use store bought food. I go fishing and catch quality fish to fillet up for my fish. I am at $4 a day for electric.
I have 1 10" bdxleo, 1 7"+ mature male hystrix, 2 5"+ motoros. Plus small black aro, 10 discus, 2 mbu, 2 small nile perch and a big list of misc fish. That price also included 15 gars ranging from 12"-24".
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I have 1 10" bdxleo, 1 7"+ mature male hystrix, 2 5"+ motoros. Plus small black aro, 10 discus, 2 mbu, 2 small nile perch and a big list of misc fish. That price also included 15 gars ranging from 12"-24".
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Dam you spend a lot on electric and water
Mine is about £200 per month on electric water is the same price no matter how much I use
Now food for 5 large rays per month
4 x 348g bags of hikari sinking cichlid gold £30 RRP
2kg of hikari sturgeon £29 RRP
1 x 1kg of massivore £50 RRP
10 x bags of frozen peeled prawn £30
So yes that's over $100 per month on food more like $150 in your money but hikari is a joke price in the UK and what we call prawns are so small you would call them shrimp
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Yeah hikari here costs too much I pay £8.50 per bag of large floating pellets not even a big bag... And our prawns are tiny unless you buy king prawns (which still aren't that big)but cost atleast double...
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The big boxes of shrimp i get are usually packed into 2lb bags. A bag would last my big prego female 2 days. Half pound in the morn and a half pound at night. She got a little weird this pregnancy and only ate shrimp for a few weeks. Typically i feed about 3 to 4 lbs per day total for my 6ish rays
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I spend about $25 a week on food for my single 13" Leo male. I feed him lots of shrimp, night crawlers,tilapia fillet and massivore. Water is free for me 
. Electric is about 60 extra a month
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Just the rays ..
4 doz crawlers ( my big spiney gets some as well so maybe 3 doz the rays eat) - 6$
1/4 lb blackworms - 8$ ( eel likely eats some of those as well)
14$ per week x4.. 60$ give 'r take to feed my retic pair a month. sometimes I get 1/2 lb of worms.. sometimes I get 3 2doz containers of worms..
electric and water ect... well plenty of other fish so that's negotiable..
we average about 200$ a month in food alone for our fish.
4 doz crawlers ( my big spiney gets some as well so maybe 3 doz the rays eat) - 6$
1/4 lb blackworms - 8$ ( eel likely eats some of those as well)
14$ per week x4.. 60$ give 'r take to feed my retic pair a month. sometimes I get 1/2 lb of worms.. sometimes I get 3 2doz containers of worms..
electric and water ect... well plenty of other fish so that's negotiable..
we average about 200$ a month in food alone for our fish.
I spend at least $150 a month on food,electric-$475,water-$175. That's 1350 gallons between 4 tanks with 12 rays,4 pbass,vulture catfish and 2 RTG's eating most of the food. I also have about 20 other various fish but they are much kinder on the food bill.
It's my hobby not a business and I will always be in the red! If a hobbyist thinks he will get rich breeding rays then you better start looking for 4 more jobs just to pay for the costs!!!
It's my hobby not a business and I will always be in the red! If a hobbyist thinks he will get rich breeding rays then you better start looking for 4 more jobs just to pay for the costs!!!
Ooooops my big dat pulcher ST does eat about 3lb of the massivore on his own that I quotes
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LOL!!! sorry man but come back next year when that Leo hits 14 inch and he /she will consume $50 bucks in food a month by himself!!!!!Well to be happy and healthy!!!Witch so what ya gotta love it....I mean just think about it for a second a 14 to 16 inch animal without tail of coarse that weighs 10 to fifteen pounds dry food between $7 and 9 Dollers a pound dead food at least $4 dollers a pound now if you calculate solely on dry OOOOOOPsssss Gosh we are at $49 bucks a week if we feed it just dry whats that Uhhhh $196 dollers a month for 1 ray
