How Long?
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Ill start feeding her again tomorrow, but I'll try one last time with marinated pellets tonight. If she still wont take it ill start feeding. THanks for all the help.Nic;2776772; said:
try not marinating the pellets.... just offer them... maybe throw more pellets in that shrimp or what ever the ray eats... creating a frenzy works too sometimes....
I marinated them 2 nights ago. I went to bed and then i woke up to find the pellets missing. So i was guessing my ray finally ate them. Turns out she chewed them up more than before and they got sucked up by the filter...Ive also tried mixing with everything she eats, but she just picks through all of it and leaves all the pellets. This MM is like more picky than retics lol...I wont be marinating again anytime soon as it smells like crap and makes me feel uneasy when all that worm juice starts dissolving into the water. I was originally going to stop like you said and start feeding again, but since its already chewed pellets into tiny peices instead of only breaking them in quarters, Im going to try going until the pelvic bones start showing. Ill stop at that point.
Had to finally stop starving today, so in total, the whole starving period lasted for 7 weeks, but she still wont eat pellets. I went to go check on her today, and after staring at her for 5 minutes, she still wasn't swimming. I could see 2 huge massive pelvic bones sticking out that wasn't there yesterday. I cut a small peice of shrimp, and she went nuts for it. Only problem was, she couldn't eat it even though it was smaller than the regular peices i used to feed her before starving. Tried worms next. The smallest worm i could find in my container was about 5" long. Usually she would have slurped this up, but she had trouble so i then had to go cut it in half. Finally she ate the tail end but even after 10 minutes, she is still struggling with eating the head half as it is a bit more fat. Do ray's stomach expand as we continue to feed? It seems like she can't consume as much as she could before?
spotfin;2806178; said:
Agree.. smaller pieces, smaller amounts, with numerous feeding sessions.
I imagine after starving for that long it has shrunk quite a bit. It will take
a little while for it to start expanding again.
Another update. About the second half of the worm...she took almost an hour just to eat that second peice. That was last night. I just tried cutting up smaller peices of shrimp about the size of 1 1/2 hikari pellets. She would chew them until they turned into like shrimp shavings but she'd never be able to chew it.
