How many days per week do you guys feed

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Chub_by said:
It's not like they find a full meal lying around twice daily in nature.
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When rays are cut open for research they are known to always have alot of different foods in their stomachs. They basically swim around 24/7 searching for food in the wild. I would guess they prob eat around 15 to 20 small meals per day in the wild


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vamptrev said:
When rays are cut open for research they are known to always have alot of different foods in their stomachs. They basically swim around 24/7 searching for food in the wild. I would guess they prob eat around 15 to 20 small meals per day in the wild
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This is what I have always read about too. Basically always hunting, eating what they can when they find it.


Chub_by said:
It's not like they find a full meal lying around twice daily in nature.
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It's not like they find a huge meal every other day in nature, either.
 
I feed once or twice per day but i noticed bichir and ropes doesnt need so much anymore (5x per week suits them right)..dat and bgk are hungry all the time.. Juvenile fire eel i feed twice per day..

But i believe its better for fish that it is constantly a bit hungry then overfed..

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To tell the truth my rays have got lazy and feed less the older they got

Anything below 15" disk will eat a lot and often

The 2 new males I got are about 10" and eat like mad
The bigger girls don't jump on food as fast


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vamptrev said:
When rays are cut open for research they are known to always have alot of different foods in their stomachs. They basically swim around 24/7 searching for food in the wild. I would guess they prob eat around 15 to 20 small meals per day in the wild


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If you can feed them many small meals per day I don't see why not. The problem is that with very small meals it is difficult to make sure that every fish feeds.
 
I feed every day one day pellets another day krill some get tilapia for my big fish every one gets veggie wafers from HBC I found that I had some problems with the Tilapia fillets with my smaller fish they would get bloat from not passing the food, so now its no Tilapia for them. I also use cold water krill because its more digestible and nutritious than the krill from warm waters
 
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