Silly question, is it rly that dangerous to hand feed rays with stingers? I hand feed my BDs all the time. Tony cannot get over the price you paid for this thing, like paying a honda civic price for a lamborghini with a dented bumper.
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Sexy and fun dangerous? I have tongs, I feed them shrimp with the tongs. I do admit when Im doing w/c I put my hand flat on the bottom of the tank and have them swim over my hand. I hand feed my aro, my tig, my dats, my nephew, Oprah, etc.
It's one of those things where you get to complacent and think you know too much about your rays. You get careless because you've hand fed them tons of times and then make one mistake and they get you. It also gets easier to make mistakes as they get bigger and numerous. When they get big those barbs don't look as cute.
Awesome fish! If a normal ray like that lost his tail will it ever grow back? Will it die if it lost his tail in a normal ray without a birth defect?
Flesh or bone tissue doesn't regenerate otherwise we would be able to regrow limbs like lizards. There's a few people who had pups and they didn't take the pups out soon enough and the adults chewed their tails off. The key is to not let the wound get infected.
I ask this because tons of rays get nipped grow back their disks nicely. Happens a lot during breeding. I've had cichlids who had flesh wounds who healed up and couldn't tell a difference. The bone part I do understand and the reason why I asked because I know some fish like starfish can grow back. My father keeps them in his saltwater and I've seen it first hand.
Thanks for the information!
