A Stingray's Eyes?

[hmoobvwj]

I have a question....I have observed both my motoros feeding behaviors and how they feed. Here is what I observed: Whenever I drop food into their tank, they never notice it even if they are like couple inches away. Only time they notice and actually take in the food is when their disk come into contact with the food. So here is the question...do stingray's actually use their eyes to seek out food? Or do they depend mostly on their sense of touch....

Anyone also experience this?
Thanks!

 

[Nic]

mine used to go nuts as soon as it hit the tank...

 

[hmoobvwj]

So in your case Nic, your stingrays actually noticed when food was being dropped? Instead of letting their sense of touch tell them, it's feeding time? I just thinks it's odd that they don't swim in the direction where a night crawler is and instead searches around for food, when it's only couple of inches away!

 

[stingraybob]

my 2 retics could be on one side of my tank and as soon as it hits the water, they shoot across the sand and get it right before it hits the sand...so id have to go with yeah they see it comin...

 

[Nic]

some newer rays it would have to hit them and then a frezy would start... but that always changed.... i used to have one motoro swin in circles up and down my tank eating hikari foodsticks off the top upside down...

 

[Deaths Sting]

my stingray will smell the food as soon as i put it in the tank, however, it takes them a min to find it. i don't think they have very good eyesight, i believe stingrays use their seance of smell mainly to hunt. However, when i turn my corallife colormax f28 t5 light on they go crazy and hide. which really sucks cuz this light makes them look even more beautiful....

 

[hmoobvwj]

So I guess my ray will snap out of it eventually...Thanks guys for the inputs.

 

[DavidW]

hmoobvwj, your rays know whats going on . they just are not telling you!