Need tips on boosting ray appetite

[FishDog]

Sorry, but I really don;t see the point of spending extra money on live food then killing it before you feed it.
Live foods trigger better predator behavior, and doesn't rot if uneaten.
Bloodworms are about as nutritious as toenails. Blackworms are much better if you can find them, or even tubifex.

I have a stubborn ray that would not eat anything for almost 3 months. The only thing I could get it to eat was ghost shrimp and that even took forever to get her on those. So I started killing the ghost shrimp so that it would start eating food that was not moving. Within 3 days of doing this, she was eating frozen foods like shrimp, krill, and scallops. Before I started killing the ghost shrimp, she wouldn't touch anything else. Won't work for everyone, but it did for me.

 

[DavidW]

weird

but, whatever works right?

 

[FishDog]

weird

but, whatever works right?

I thought so too, but you do strange things to get a expensive ray to eat when it is shrinking before your eyes

 

[RayRookie]

I feed my rays frozen ghost shrimp,
thawed them for 10 mins before feeding..

I thought rays are unable to resist ghost shrimps??
He only grab the food and then toss em backwards,
probably manage to get one or two bites , but thats it, no more.
I even tried peeling all the shrimps first, none effect, zero , nada...

i'm getting a bit desperate here, maybe i'll go with small pieces of meat/liver?

put the heater in, set it to 85 since yesterday, not much help there..

I've separated them now , so the male has the whole tank for himself.
I got 20 guppies in, and I did saw him catch one yesterday.
i'm gonna go get some live ghost shrimp and some blackworms now..

thanks for the advice guys,
any more in case none of this works on my pup??

 

[FishDog]

So have you not been feeding live ghost shrimp? Definetly go with the live ones to get him eating good, then try the method I talked about after about a week to ween him onto other foods. Stubborn rays usually won't eat dead food, you have to get them eating and then move over to the dead food.

 

[flowerpower]

Good to know< thanks.

 

[Marius]

Blackworms all the way. California blackworms http://www.aquaticfoods.com/freesamples.html he's selling here on the forum as well for discounted prices. Get yourself 5lbs of them (keep them alive though) and after you get through half of them, soak chopped earthworms, shrimp or massivore pellets with blackworms before feeding your rays.

Blackworms are what you need buddy, and fast.