What do you all think is the best food for growing out/building up a ray? I've seen on here that people say tilapia is the fastest/best but what do you all think?
Best Builder Food for rays
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Stingrays tend to refuse pellets, best foods I have used to get them to put on weight is tillapia (if they will eat it), silversides, and earthworms. Silversides and earthworms are expensive, tillapia is relatively cheap but I have had some difficulty getting some rays to eat it.
Had 3 henlei imports come in a few weeks ago, all of them very skinny, had them on tillapia and silversides for about 2 weeks and all of them have put on alot of weight.
Had 3 henlei imports come in a few weeks ago, all of them very skinny, had them on tillapia and silversides for about 2 weeks and all of them have put on alot of weight.
I have GOODLUCK with tilapie, except my leoXmm he took 4ever to get on tilapia, he actually just started a week ago lol
JohnG;4867997; said:
stingrays tend to refuse pellets
i have never had a ray refuse pellets it may take a week of messing around to get them to eat pellets but they will eat them
pellets are better than ANY other food to build a ray up
hikari sinking carnivore seam to be the best pellets to get rays started eating pellets then you can try other pellets
i use
hikari sinking carnivore
Hikari massivore
Hikari sinking cichlid gold med size pellets
Hikari sturgeon med size pellets
all mixed up in one big tub and they eat all of them i think hikari are the best a bit more expensive but you get what you pay for with any food human or pet
T1KARMANN;4869339; said:stingrays tend to refuse pellets
i have never had a ray refuse pellets it may take a week of messing around to get them to eat pellets but they will eat them
pellets are better than ANY other food to build a ray up
hikari sinking carnivore seam to be the best pellets to get rays started eating pellets then you can try other pellets
i use
hikari sinking carnivore
Hikari massivore
Hikari sinking cichlid gold med size pellets
Hikari sturgeon med size pellets
all mixed up in one big tub and they eat all of them i think hikari are the best a bit more expensive but you get what you pay for with any food human or pet
I comply agree with you thats what I do.
T1KARMANN;4869339; said:stingrays tend to refuse pellets
i have never had a ray refuse pellets it may take a week of messing around to get them to eat pellets but they will eat them
pellets are better than ANY other food to build a ray up
hikari sinking carnivore seam to be the best pellets to get rays started eating pellets then you can try other pellets
i use
hikari sinking carnivore
Hikari massivore
Hikari sinking cichlid gold med size pellets
Hikari sturgeon med size pellets
all mixed up in one big tub and they eat all of them i think hikari are the best a bit more expensive but you get what you pay for with any food human or pet
For putting on mass, I actually disagree. I think Hikari sinking carnivore are great, and I do feed them to my rays, but as far putting on size I've had the best success with market prawn, squid and earthworm. I actually recently compared the size of my henlei group to a friends (both groups imported at the same time) and mine were nearly 2/3 the size. He fed some MP and mostly Massivore, I fed mostly MP, squid and some earthworms.
Long term, pellets with some frozen food are the way to go for the health of your ray, and I 100% back the Hikari product line, but if you're trying to bulk them up, nothing beats MP + Squid + Earthworm IME.
T1KARMANN;4869339; said:stingrays tend to refuse pellets
i have never had a ray refuse pellets it may take a week of messing around to get them to eat pellets but they will eat them
pellets are better than ANY other food to build a ray up
hikari sinking carnivore seam to be the best pellets to get rays started eating pellets then you can try other pellets
i use
hikari sinking carnivore
Hikari massivore
Hikari sinking cichlid gold med size pellets
Hikari sturgeon med size pellets
all mixed up in one big tub and they eat all of them i think hikari are the best a bit more expensive but you get what you pay for with any food human or pet
I did use hikari but if i remember correctly someone posted something about one of the ingrediants not being good long term for them. I've now started using NLS extreme as it can work out a little cheaper and the ray and other fish like it more.
I have now started feeding them the jelly food made up from the thread in the stingray forum, took a few attempts for them to eat it but now they're waffling it down
T1KARMANN;4869339; said:stingrays tend to refuse pellets
i have never had a ray refuse pellets it may take a week of messing around to get them to eat pellets but they will eat them
pellets are better than ANY other food to build a ray up
hikari sinking carnivore seam to be the best pellets to get rays started eating pellets then you can try other pellets
i use
hikari sinking carnivore
Hikari massivore
Hikari sinking cichlid gold med size pellets
Hikari sturgeon med size pellets
all mixed up in one big tub and they eat all of them i think hikari are the best a bit more expensive but you get what you pay for with any food human or pet
I tried pellets on rays many times, I actually tried hikari massivore specifically, they wouldnt touch them. Maybe they would have gotten on them eventually, I did not starve them till they took them. I would agree, if they would eat pellets its certainly a healthy food for them.