Does anyone have experience feeding garden slugs to stingrays? It would be nice to supplement their food, but I'm wondering if they are toxic to stingrays (or other fish).
Is it safe to feed garden slugs to stingrays?
- Thread starter mindfuloffish
- Start date
I know some freshwater fish here in the UK eat slugs but weather they are safe for Freshwater Rays i have no idea? There are plenty of other foods avaliable that you can use to give your ray a varied died.
I would suggest you do not. Pick up a slug and even under running water the slime does not come off, think some of this slime can be harmful with some slugs....would not risk it. I expect the fish that do eat slug pick them up once the slug has died and slime come off.. I could be totally wrong but why risk it with so many foods avail.
I always chuck slugs into my pond due to the decline of hedgehogs slugs were taken over the garden till the koi an wels got on top of em 
.
Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
.Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app
Good point. We use no fertilizers or pesticides in our yard. Doesn't mean we don't get drift when neighbors spray their lawns and trees.
A better question is will your fish eat slugs. Most fish won't touch them. I take dead ones out of my pond all the time.
We get scores of the big 6-inch slugs here. If I could use them, it would help cut the cost of feeding several large rays.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to answer that question except by offering the slugs and seeing if they eat them. I was hoping to get an idea of whether it was safe before I tried that experiment.
I have those big leopard slugs here as well. I think I even asked the question many years ago and never ran into anyone that had fed them. The craziest thing I have fed was leeches from Walmart. The rays loved them but only fed them 1 tub. I would risk the slugs, they are just nasty.