Alternative Ray Diets - Collective Brainstorm?

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bump for Gr8 to read this and get clued in on some plans....:p
 
Nic;2279864; said:
bump for Gr8 to read this and get clued in on some plans....:p
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gotcha! ;)
 
iam suprised nobody has mentioned cherry shrimp yet, they are small 1" or so but can be grown at home in like a 10g tank and by what most people say they breed fast and they have fully formed babies, no larval stage just tiny shrimp, i think they would great for baby rays and retics, iam going to get some for my motoro if i can find some cheep ones

also at the grocery store here they have live clams, live mussles, live perrywinkles and live prawns, they are expensive but would they at least be good treats for rays?

and what about snails they would be easy to breed dont rays eat those?
 
oogie;2283038; said:
iam suprised nobody has mentioned cherry shrimp yet, they are small 1" or so but can be grown at home in like a 10g tank and by what most people say they breed fast and they have fully formed babies, no larval stage just tiny shrimp, i think they would great for baby rays and retics, iam going to get some for my motoro if i can find some cheep ones

also at the grocery store here they have live clams, live mussles, live perrywinkles and live prawns, they are expensive but would they at least be good treats for rays?

and what about snails they would be easy to breed dont rays eat those?
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i guess you missed my post ;)
 
Any Good food contains protein Kinase will do,night crawler is also one of them.
 
awesome info guys, got a motoro about 2 days ago...doing good now but eats only tubifex worms. tried feeding frozen krill but is not eating it. Any idea on how to get her start eating pellets?
 
give me more food to raise people... more i have the more you get :)
 
not really something you could raise, but one of my retics goes for algae wafers:screwy:
 
Did you ever get more info about the chow our friend made??
FireMedic;2265044; said:
I have been utilizing a very dynamic feeding schedule with a diverse array of foods.

I never feed the same amount to each ray, nor the same food. I also will "fast" one or more of them for half a day to 1.5 days then feed generously. I try my best to partially mimic the feest and famine found in the wilds.

I rotate daily, weekly, monthly between frozen, farm raised shrimp, nightcrawlers, smelt, krill and a very specialized customized, commercial trout chow. Actually I have not been able to see the ingredients, percentages etc. All I know is that I showed my PHD Aquacultrue friend a bag of Hakari Massivore and three days later he produced eight pounds of this pellitized chow.

A little amateur science here:
I have noticed that since the introduction of frozen shrimp and this "chow" the barbs shed by the rays are much, much more dense and firm. Previous to these foods the barbs were rather flimsy and easily bent. They also tended to be kinda malformed ex: blunted, serrations absent.
Now they are a force to behold.
Respectfully,
FireMedic.

P.S: I will get the low-down on this chow and post it.
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