Pinkies as food for Rays? Anyone tried this?

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best thing is to try it to find out what happen. make sure u wash the mice really clean though coz u don't want to mess up ur water quality. j/k...
if 20" montoros, i think it's ok to try. but if 20" BD or P14 or other expensive rays, then i won't do it. please let us know if u did try though. thanks.
 
iTiger;4966883; said:
best thing is to try it to find out what happen. make sure u wash the mice really clean though coz u don't want to mess up ur water quality. j/k...
if 20" montoros, i think it's ok to try. but if 20" BD or P14 or other expensive rays, then i won't do it. please let us know if u did try though. thanks.
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If you wouldnt do it with an "expensive" ray, why would you do it with any ray?

:nilly::nilly::nilly:
 
DavidW;4966653; said:
you don't think a cayman or a piranha or ( especially) a turtle ( there are millions of them) or an aro or a bass or almost anything would get it long before a ray? Even Coypu, which are semi aquatic giant rodents don't really go into the water if they don't have to.
Are small rodents falling from trees there? seriously, c'mon, THINK about it. NOTHING goes in the water unless it either lives there or is forced to by extreme predation pressure.
Brown trout? wouldn't last a second in the Amazon. This is not some gentle north American trout stream we are talking about
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:ROFL: Its not like every single place where the rays live there is cayman/piranha or turtle. The amazon is huge and if im a ray, i wouldnt wanna live near those preds because i wouldn't get food myself. and i do think that rays sometimes eat rodents. But its extremely rare. Its as rare as sleeping with Megan Fox... but anyway Lets say a rodent fell into a shallow part of the river that has rays in it. And it fell right in front of it. It will probably sting it and maybe gobble it up. Besides you cant compare brown trout's mortality rate to how it feeds :ROFL: besides none of the Amazon fish would last in gentle north american trout stream too
 
I saw video that Umbee eats mice, and in Asia, they feed frogs to rays I heard, so I guess the montoro's owner could try it out feeding the ray the mice as an experiment. It's just my opinion, but u r absolutely right. I shouldn't try it on my montoros if I will not try it on my expensive rays. Thanks.
 
Somebody kick me, but I'm about to agree with DavidW. :D


While pinkie mice are relatively high in protein (approx 64%) and relatively high in fat (approx 17%) warm blooded animals contain the wrong type of fat, which harden within a cold blooded fish, and over time can eventually lead to blockages & fatty deposits around the liver. Also, the relative proportions of amino acids within the mammalian proteins are different to those required by fish, so much of that 64% protein will be excreted as nitrogenous waste placing an extra burden on your bio filtration.


There is no need to perform any experiments, overall pinkie mice are a piss poor food choice for any species of stingray.
 
I saw this thread title and started shaking my head, it intrigued me and its 7am and still cant get to sleep so being bored I opened it. So I thought ok honest question but half way threw after reading the possibilities of how a ray might encounter a mouse in the wild (at the bottom of the amazon!) I started banging my head against the desk. So thank you RD. for finally saying why its actually unhealthy for the ray. (BTW yes I am MFK stalking you ATM, you have some great threads!)

Theres lots of things the are in your fish food that your freshwater fish would never eat in the wild (like salmon, kelp, wheat germ, Soybean, garlic), thats not the point! Its if they can digest it or not, well its a little more complicated than that but you get the point.
 
^ Speak for yourself... lol... :D

If you want protein with little to no fat, why not try beef heart? (unless you enjoy watching a helpless pinky being fed)
 
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