How do you spend the evening with your Rays???

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keepinfish;3871174; said:
That is what i said the other night just wait i'll get it later.. I won't do that again.

I cannot believe you grabbed him by the tail, that is pretty brave!!
Was he thrashing around?

He was actually pretty calm until I pulled him out of the water. Then he was not happy. I had to do this one time before trying to remove fish lice from a rays belly. Brave or not, it still gets the heart rate up :D
 
Aren't they supposed to go limp when flipped on thier backs?
 
I didn't flip it over, I just held him up by the tail and pulled the stinger out with my other hand. I then put him back into the tank while I was still holding on to his tail.
 
I bet you got soaked..... :ROFL:

I have just heard they are similar to sharks and basically go to "sleep" if flipped over. Just wondering if anyone has tried this with FW rays?
 
I have not tried it with rays but I found some sharks are react to being on their backs differently. It almost dose not work at all on my broad nose 7 gill but works great on my lemon shark. I have not tried it on my black tip cause he is just too high strung. I would be curious to see how it works on both fresh and saltwater rays.
 
DB junkie;3872191; said:
I bet you got soaked..... :ROFL:

I have just heard they are similar to sharks and basically go to "sleep" if flipped over. Just wondering if anyone has tried this with FW rays?

I didn't but the back of my nice leather love seat did:eek:

He is still alive tonight so I am guessing all will be good.
 
Hey, you said he had a double stinger. Was it a legit double or just the regrowth coming in. Reason I ask is that my male Flower came in with two large stingers and that was over four weeks ago and hasn't shed one. I know Ross says rays can have two and even three stingers. So I was hoping he has a double stinger.
 
It was just a regrowth but he had the thing for a long time. Maybe 4 months or more. It was the same size as his current one.
 
FishDog;3873406; said:
It was just a regrowth but he had the thing for a long time. Maybe 4 months or more. It was the same size as his current one.
K Thats probably all mine is then.:(
 
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