I have almost read every thread here and have leard alot and i have read every homepage about rays i can find. Know i feel that i know enough too get my first ray. Of course it can go all wrong becuase im not an expert becuase i never had an ray and only read about them. Im not going to get a ray tomorrow becuase theres alot to fix before. I must get a bigger tank and a better filtration. Know i only have a 540L big tank thats 150cm long 60cm high and 60cm deep. So im going for something tvice as big (i hope soon.) But before im thinking about buying a big group of shrimps that i could breed in and maybe put in the same thank as the ray. Shouldent live food trigger the eating instinct of the ray and maybe mixing this whit live eartworms? Maybe i can get around a anorexic ray by this way and get a stabil food source in the tank for a short while? I realize that the shrimps in the tank is not going to bee long lived but i think thats it wort it. Or what do you guys think??
Live food?
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if you had a skinny ray you could use live black worms and you could gut load ghost shrimps with pellets.... earthworms are great.... its better to try and find a healthy stable ray that's eating better varieties of foods.... my rays eat market shrimps smelts silversides and pellets.... live foods are great for the short run but its better to go for non live foods.... look for motoro rays to for your first ray... they are much hardier than retics....
Yeah i will defentily go for a motoro maybe a leo. I like each one of them and i have had discus for a while now so im used to put in some time soo that is realy not the problem.
I just thought that live food could trigger the eating habit if they refuse to eat and that it could bee a good precaution to have a live stock of shrimps that the ray could feed in. He just have moore options then. Of course i will try too have as big variation of food as possible, but do you think it a bad idea too do this way? Or is there a chance that parasites could infect the ray trough the shrimps?
I just thought that live food could trigger the eating habit if they refuse to eat and that it could bee a good precaution to have a live stock of shrimps that the ray could feed in. He just have moore options then. Of course i will try too have as big variation of food as possible, but do you think it a bad idea too do this way? Or is there a chance that parasites could infect the ray trough the shrimps?
well you run the risk on fresh not Quarantined shrimps like that.... I wouldn't do it if it was me.... I would go for frozen foods and pellets.... hikari has some of the best pellets on the market....