Raw or cooked??????

[jim barry]

so you are sayiong rays have not learned how to deal with cooked foods

my rays was born in my tank and most of them are 6-7 years old i wonder how long it takes them to get used to it then

when you change a dog from one dry food to another it doesnt take 7 years it takes a few days

rays can handle sea foods yes we know that

we also know that to much salt is bad

so by feeding a fw fish just uncooked shrimp salt water foods its daily salt intake is way to high to be healthy

cooked salt water foods has less salt in it

i never had the need to added silly vitamin dust to my rays food i just feed pellet and frozen prawn as a filler which fills the rays up

i think the big multi million $$$$$ companys like hikari and NLS have spent a lot of $$$$$ to get there mix of food right before putting it on to the market dont you

they even brake down whats in the pellets whats the brake down of whats in 1 shrimp i bet you dont have a clue

Here is a thing not many people may know (but you lot are probably going to prove me wrong!)
I work with a guy who used to work for Mars/Cadburys. Many years ago they used to make dog food and this guys job back in the day was to come up with ways to get revenue from the process waste left from making the dog food. They came up with a way of spraying the waste onto big screens, adding colouring and vitimans etc. This is sold today as Aquarian Tropical fish flake food!

 

[jim barry]

Very interesting thread guys and thaks all for your answers. I guess best thing is variety as you mostly say. I feed only raw prawns but also muscles, small white fish from Maidenhead and Sturgeon pellets. Good to get an idea of what others do. I used to feed three Orbignyi I had a few years ago frozen prawns that had been previously cooked. I sold one as I got too big for my then smaller tank. The other 2 ended up dying on me. Don't know what caused it?

 

[tampa_bass]

correct me if i'm wrong but, aren't pellets cooked?

 

[strollo22]

Live food is NOT the best. Live food doesn't contain all the vitamins that pellets do and the perfectly balanced nutritional contents. Pellets are best.

 

[koi9]

Live food is NOT the best. Live food doesn't contain all the vitamins that pellets do and the perfectly balanced nutritional contents. Pellets are best.

Wild fish are much nicer looking. And do u think they get pellets?

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[strollo22]

Wild fish are NOT much nicer looking. Some can be, such as Cichla. And I'm not referring to the "wild". Our fish tanks are not the wild. The feeder fish that we purchase are dirty and parasite infested. Unless you're breeding your own feeders and feeding them pellets, pellets are still best.

 

[strollo22]

I'm not even going to get into an argument, especially with YOU. I'm going to take advice to someone who owns the worlds first mouse eating saltwater pleco. Yea.

 

[jim barry]

And we go on and on! No comment on the dog food dried into fish flake? I heard or read somewhere that it is good to feed anchovies to rays occasionally because of their high salt content.

 

[strollo22]

Sounds like an accomplishment to me. We will see the opinions of other people on this site. I bet more will agree with me. I will start a new thread with a poll.

Go for it. I'll be awaiting the apology when you realize you're wrong.

 

[Zoodiver]

Live food is NOT the best. Live food doesn't contain all the vitamins that pellets do and the perfectly balanced nutritional contents. Pellets are best.

Live food used properly is the best way to replicate a natural diet in stingrays. Feeding just one type of food is never the best option - live or prepared. Even as live, it needs to be a mix of different live animals to give a well rounded nutritional offering.

The fact of the matter is the rays don't get a steady influx of various vit/nutrients in the wild diet. It changes with the seasonal food sources for them. Ergo, that same type of fluctuation should be accounted for in the diets we offer them under our care. I can't remember if it was an official part of the symposium, but several of us talked at length about this in Chicago several years ago. We were working directly with the guys who research them in the wild and compared notes on what we were seeing in tanks/displays.