Got a ray IN the bay!

[spring007]

Hey guys, I just got a Motoro ray about 3 days ago! After my failure last time with two teacups, I was just waiting around till I come across another ray. Then about ten days ago I walk into this LFS and there I see these two awesome lookin motoros still in their bags. I told the owner that I will be back in a week and get them IF they start eating and paid him $100 in advance. 4 days ago I went there, asked the guy who works there to feed it (there was only one left, a female, I think). The ray ate readily. After that I came back home and did an allnighter reading about rays on this forum! I'm not kidding, a complete allnighter. Then the next day I did a 60% water change because my nitrates were about 40ppm, added a lot of aquarium salt and prazi pro (just to make sure that it doesn't have any parasites). I went back to the store and got the ray, did the drip method to release it into the tank. For the last three days she was not moving around a lot when the lights were on. but today I see her swimming around all over the place. The dumbest thing I did was to let the heater without any cover. I have stealth heaters but trust me guys, they burn the ray too!

The only drawback is that she still eats ONLY live black worms. I don't know how to get her start eating pellets. Tried feeding her krill but she doesn't eat that either. Any inputs will be appreciated!
here are the pics

 

[crowconor]

wow nice!! better get some heater guards

 

[ceeej31]

looks lie it has a pretty bad heater burn on its back

 

[spring007]

looks lie it has a pretty bad heater burn on its back

It was worse that that! I put salt and prazi pro and has gone down a lot...

 

[sodenoshirayuki]

Just fatten her up with blackworms first, dont try pellets yet. Not trying to be an ass or anything, but this should've been researched looooong before you even started looking at rays.

 

[spring007]

Just fatten her up with blackworms first, dont try pellets yet. Not trying to be an ass or anything, but this should've been researched looooong before you even started looking at rays.

I did look into feeding them blackworms, in fact I know all the different foods that people on this forum feed their rays. I just didn't know how to get my ray start eating pellets, didn't find a post that explains that issue.

 

[KMKN]

Good Luck!

 

[angelo21]

nice!

 

[sodenoshirayuki]

I did look into feeding them blackworms, in fact I know all the different foods that people on this forum feed their rays. I just didn't know how to get my ray start eating pellets, didn't find a post that explains that issue.

I meant just everything in general, and theres like a threat every 3 days asking how to get rays on pellets. If you dunno, then first step is try to get them on earthworms first.

 

[FishDog]

I did look into feeding them blackworms, in fact I know all the different foods that people on this forum feed their rays. I just didn't know how to get my ray start eating pellets, didn't find a post that explains that issue.

It is difficult to get some rays onto pellets. Some take them and some don't. They have to be healthy and settled into there home. Once they are eating good on a variety of foods then you can try to get them on pellets. Most people have to starve them for days even a week to get them to eat pellets. Once you are ready to try it, starve them and introduce the pellets mixed into there other food. I have had rays for almost a year and still haven't tried pellets yet, just frozen shrimp, krill, earthworms, and scallops for now. Maybe pellets in the future.