anyone ever witness this?

[coyotethug]

I was feeding a dozen nightcrawlers to my rays and I just witnessed something very strange. My leo/pearl stole a worm from a motoro and it got stuck in his spiracle. He freaked out for a second then he sucked it through his spiracle and out of his gill and ate it! I didn't think there would be enough space but it was a full size crawler and the ray is about 8 inches in diamter. Anyone else ever see something like this?

 

[vamptrev]

yup, happens all the time

 

[cjfrontlovr]

yes, i have seen it many times when a ray is eating to many at one time.

 

[Blue Crab of PAIN!!!!]

8 inches... in diameter!?
Or did you mean length?

 

[turkeyboy85]

8 inches... in diameter!?
Or did you mean length?

dia. read it again... the ray has a (dia) or disk size of 8"

 

[CrAzYNeSs]

Yeah, happen to be before too. Once a huge ass one got stuck in my small male. Had to net him out, use a tong to grab that sucker out.

 

[sbuse]

i noticed that happened alot with smaller food on my retics when i had them...

 

[joey02]

Very common. ive also seen them eat food threw the spiracle...