How bad tilapia is. Stingrays starving

[Jesseliu13]

So I'm sure everyone knows the news about how bad tilapia is as a fish. Anywhere from its chemicals to nutrition to taste. I normally buy my food for my rays in bulk so about 6 months back I bought a few bags of tilapia fillets. I normally feed a mixture of shrimp and swai. But now that I'm running out of those I am starting to feel tilapia. It's been 5 days now. And my stingrays just swim over the tilapia. My fat female bites it every now and then but there is always a bunch left over. So I always just take it out. Today I soaked some shrimp heads with the tilapia and put a few pieces of shrimp. My rays found the shrimp out of the mixture with tilapia. My rays just hate tilapia...

 

[stingray keeper]

I've never had a problem with tilapia. if the ray is fussy or stressed out it may refuse certain foods.

 

[UnstoppableJayD]

Mine take tilapia .. but you should not have assumed they would take it before you ran out of what they are used to.. varied diets are the best to keep them from becoming fussy

 

[Jesseliu13]

I normally just stock up on frozen foods when the weather is colder. when its spring to summer time i fish and all the garbage fish i catch i fillet and feed them that. my rays eat everyhing except tilapia.

 

[SHARK13]

At this point I have stopped feeding it to my rays. They get real dark, especially my female marble, for some reason when I feed them tilapia. Tried from several sources, all same result. Not really sure why.

 

[KNH]

At this point I have stopped feeding it to my rays. They get real dark, especially my female marble, for some reason when I feed them tilapia. Tried from several sources, all same result. Not really sure why.

Interesting. Can you explain why you think the tilapia caused the marble to darken? I had a couple of light marbles that were fed tilapia, earthworms and shrimp for about 2 years and remained light while I had them.

 

[Dieselhybrid]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...aised-on-pig-feces-approved-for-u-s-consumers

There's all kinds of articles out now reporting this. Here is a random one from Google.

The FDA is allowing imported fish from China where the farms are using more economical food sources for tilapia, shrimp and other farmed fish. the foods include pig, cow and poultry feces. They are also constantly dosed with antibiotics.

I haven't eaten tilapia in some time and refuse to do so. Too easy to catch my own fish to eat and feed to my fishes.

With the FDA recently removing the requirement of informing consumers of country of origin when selling meats, you have no clue where your meat comes from. And IF they choose to label country of origin there is no regulation requiring them to do so. Thus, they can put whatever country on that label they want, whether it's the truth or not, likely without consequence.

Your fish Probably don't sense that the tilapia is full of crap ( literally) they Probably aren't used to the texture or taste. Just being picky. Either way, no one in my family, fish included, are eating that stuff anymore.

 

[Ashley106]

Reading this kinda stuff is y I am so happy my Ray's are always pellet trained and I just feed prawn and whitebait as treats

 

[SHARK13]

Interesting. Can you explain why you think the tilapia caused the marble to darken? I had a couple of light marbles that were fed tilapia, earthworms and shrimp for about 2 years and remained light while I had them.

When I had my marbles primarily on tilapia they looked like this. The male on the left was still fairly light, but he was also eating pellets at that time. Female wasnt.

Now both after primarily feeding pellets with other treats, but no tilapia in diet at all for over a year. Not the best shot, but literally just took this pic. A picture says a thousand words. Nothing in my system has changed in the last year besides diet to be honest with you. That's why I thought tilapia made them darker. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, it may have absolutely nothing to do with the diet change. I'm just showing you my experience with the facts. Once I started feeding NLS and Massivore combo as a primary diet. Dude... colors exploded for me!

 

[KNH]

That's very interesting thx for the pics. Going back through old pics I do see where my male became dark for a period of a month or so and then lightened again. He morphed so much it was a joy to watch. Keep us posted if you would on their color in the future.