Anyone have any feedback concerning this approach to ray nutrition? Success stories? Failures?
Hope all is well, FM.
Hope all is well, FM.
FireMedic's DIY RaY FooD
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I made some homeade food last week and all but 2 rays took to it on day one and the others on day 2. They love it now. My red bay snooks and dats love it to. Here is what I made
1 Talapia filet
8 Shrimp minus shell
1 cup scallops
1/4 cup chopped spinach
2 tsp chopped garlic
2 tsp paprika
7 multi vitamins
8 packets plain gelatin
2 cups water
I threw everything in the blender and chopped it up with 1/2 cup water. I chopped the vitamins up to a powder first. I took the other 1 1/2 cup of water and mixed gelatin with it and microwaved for 1 1/2 minutes. I then dumped this in the blender and give it another whirl. I poured out into quart size baggies and layed flat, about 1/4 inch thick. It made 4 and 1/2 baggies. I put in the fridge overnight. I just tear into chucks and through in tank. The consistancy is somewhere between jello and jello jiggler status.
1 Talapia filet
8 Shrimp minus shell
1 cup scallops
1/4 cup chopped spinach
2 tsp chopped garlic
2 tsp paprika
7 multi vitamins
8 packets plain gelatin
2 cups water
I threw everything in the blender and chopped it up with 1/2 cup water. I chopped the vitamins up to a powder first. I took the other 1 1/2 cup of water and mixed gelatin with it and microwaved for 1 1/2 minutes. I then dumped this in the blender and give it another whirl. I poured out into quart size baggies and layed flat, about 1/4 inch thick. It made 4 and 1/2 baggies. I put in the fridge overnight. I just tear into chucks and through in tank. The consistancy is somewhere between jello and jello jiggler status.
FishDog;4607247; said:
My concern over all this has nothing to do with health, but doesn't chopping all this
food up in a blender minimize the sizes of the pieces therefore allowing them to
float and get sucked into filtration and/or hidden places thus allowing it to sour/spoil.
I have wanted to try something of this nature just worry about the messiness and small particulites.
I will have to try it. My luck though, NONE of my rays like Scallops so the will probably pick through it all and
just eat what they like and I will be left cleaning up the leftovers just like I would a kid and their veggies.
I might incorporate muscles in place of the scallops as they will pick and eat them if not given something else.
When you say chopped shrimp, do you mean you actually chop it as in a blender. I just cut mine long ways and the eat it like that.
just eat what they like and I will be left cleaning up the leftovers just like I would a kid and their veggies.
I might incorporate muscles in place of the scallops as they will pick and eat them if not given something else.
When you say chopped shrimp, do you mean you actually chop it as in a blender. I just cut mine long ways and the eat it like that.
Just a note here:
When ingredients are placed into a blender, the outcome leaves nothing for the rays to pick out. Let the blender completely "BLEND" the ingredients. You shouldn't have anything to clean up but poo.
-FM
When ingredients are placed into a blender, the outcome leaves nothing for the rays to pick out. Let the blender completely "BLEND" the ingredients. You shouldn't have anything to clean up but poo.
-FMjust wondering here firemedic, but did you get this idea off the show dirty jobs, when mike is at the shark aquarium making food? Because they did the exact thing to feed sharks, and I had just read this thread like a day before that
Dirty Jobs? Discovery Channel?
I am familiar with the program but not aware there was such an episode.
This gelatin idea has been long in the making. I have seen many other commercial grade diets of varying ingredients, some with a gelatin component others without. I figured, "Why the hell not try it ?" I put two and two together and decided to share my findings. The gelatin offers an impressive flexibility to manipulate the diet of my rays.
If you read back into other threads you will see that I stumbled across MAZURI RAY - SHARK GEL DIET.
This is an often used diet in public aquariums. Part of my idea was sparked by this diet.
Respectfully,
FireMedic.
I am familiar with the program but not aware there was such an episode.
This gelatin idea has been long in the making. I have seen many other commercial grade diets of varying ingredients, some with a gelatin component others without. I figured, "Why the hell not try it ?" I put two and two together and decided to share my findings. The gelatin offers an impressive flexibility to manipulate the diet of my rays.
If you read back into other threads you will see that I stumbled across MAZURI RAY - SHARK GEL DIET.
This is an often used diet in public aquariums. Part of my idea was sparked by this diet.
Respectfully,
FireMedic.
alright guys i mixed up about:
3 tilapia fillets
15 whole shrimp
1.5 cup of scallops
2 cups of pellots,
5 multi vitamins
1 garlic
1/2 cup of water:
now how much water do you think i should add and how should i do the rest? just microwave some water and gelatin mix (idk how many of each lol) then pour and set up?
3 tilapia fillets
15 whole shrimp
1.5 cup of scallops
2 cups of pellots,
5 multi vitamins
1 garlic
1/2 cup of water:
now how much water do you think i should add and how should i do the rest? just microwave some water and gelatin mix (idk how many of each lol) then pour and set up?
