i would seperate the bichers before you go since you will be feeding less as this can make the aggreasion go up with all of your fish but those can do alot of damage. good luck though hope everything goes well.
does anyone powerfeed their rays?
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For what it's worth, I'll toss in a little biology behind the words of caution.
With most elasmobranch species, they store excess fat in the liver first, then around the heart. The liver storage actually restricts the blood flow to the organ, and limits the ability of it to function. Slowly, it starts to have a negative impact on the kidneys as well, leading to poor blood filtering. You end up killing them by blood poisoning. If that doesn't happen, you are also starting to restrict the movement of the heart, making it work harder to pump blood to the rest of the body.
With most elasmobranch species, they store excess fat in the liver first, then around the heart. The liver storage actually restricts the blood flow to the organ, and limits the ability of it to function. Slowly, it starts to have a negative impact on the kidneys as well, leading to poor blood filtering. You end up killing them by blood poisoning. If that doesn't happen, you are also starting to restrict the movement of the heart, making it work harder to pump blood to the rest of the body.
You here of alot of people losing rays to what they say is blood poisoning when a ray is pregnant. Is there similar causes to the above mentioned or are we just feeding to much to our rays when pregnant or is it something totally deifferent happeningZoodiver;4504859; said:
Nutrional needs change for females. I feed low fat, high calcuim diets during those months. IMO over all, we give too much fatty food to our rays. Natural diet replication is best.
It would be interesting to see how 'blood poisoning' is concluded on those ray deaths.
It would be interesting to see how 'blood poisoning' is concluded on those ray deaths.
