just curious as to how the sting works on a ray...can they sting up by thier head(say if you were hand feeding) by whipping the tail up or is it only moving the tail onto whatever they are tring to sting (so the tail stays rigid) done a few searches but cant find much on it..
how does a stingray strike?
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if you want to hand feed, let them come to you up the side of the tank.... i have yet to see a ray attempt to sting something when it is swimming up
great information all thanks for sharing, now who hear has been hit with the barb of a stingray?
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ya its a Reflex, if they feel threatened or rough handled, they can just react by using there tail by making a quick sting in the area that the discomfort is comming from.
Stingrays cannot raise or lower their stings voluntarily. The wound they inflict comes from the arching forward flick of their muscular tail.
I quoted most of this from the Sticky in the forums,
Stingrays cannot raise or lower their stings voluntarily. The wound they inflict comes from the arching forward flick of their muscular tail.
I quoted most of this from the Sticky in the forums,
turkeyboy85;3291942; said:
yup just half your hand in the tank... let the ray do the work for the food
they are fast too. If you don't get sting by it you can also get hurt by the sharp needle along their tail. I just cut my sting needle off when it look pointy so other fish in the tank don't get wipe with it. Having a 14" stingray in the tank is like having a shark and if you try to scare it, I can't imagine how it stir up your tank. I got sting once by accident when I try to clean the tank and make my ray scare so it just wipe me with its tail.
Through observations in my setup it seems they are capable of hitting anything at/near their disk margins. Up and over and side to side makes no difference. -FM