Self-Sustaining Food Sources
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You need a food source that can keep up with your rays appetite and not grow too big for the ray to eat. Perhaps a 16 x 16 x 3 feet outdoor pond filled with plant and hiding placess, populated with goldfish, tilapia and guppies might work for 1 ray.
I had this idea also, and this will be my plan once I got a larger footprint tank! First off, find a large piece of slate and cut it in a triangle to fit a corner of the tank. On two of the corners (where the 45 degree angles are, not the 90 degree angle) drill and attach fairly straight pieces of driftwood perpendicular to the slate. Make sure the wood runs the height of the tank, as attched to the slate so it runs very close to the glass leaving very little clearance. Next, attach plast mesh (with fairly large holes, like those use in chickem coop avairies) tightly between the two pieces of wood all the way up the wood so it prtrueds out of the water a little (so fish cant swim over and in). Now it should look like a mesh wall in the corner of a tank with two driftwood anchors. Next I planned to tie various other pieces of driftwood, sticks, live mosses and ferns to make it look like a driftwood tangle with plants growing on it and to hide the mesh wall. If the rest of your tank is fairly bare, the food (cherry shrimp & guppies) should congregate amongst the driftwood tangle and probably seek shelter and safety behind it in the corner. This would prevent the rays from eating them all (especially the shrimp) but also allow the guppies and shrimp that make the mistake of venturing into the open into a snack
gouramis. adults will stay in cover mostly making nests and making tons and tons of tiny babies that once grown a bit will venture into hungry mouths.
Deaths Sting;3033119; said:having a renewable food source in the same tank as the rays will be extremely difficult, unless u provided i fine net between the two specimen.
i have an earth worm farm in my shed and a convict breeding tank. so far i have gotten about 200 earth worms and about 100 successful large convict fry. it will be feeding time soon!
p.s. ill post pics of the 2 food resources at request.
The convict fry you posted a week or so ago, were far too tiny to feed anything. Is that the fry you are referring to?
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they were very small when i took those photos almost a month ago! their now miniature versions of their parents. im still gonna wait a bit longer; but it will be soon
Do any of you breed worms? Seems like it would be easy to do. Never done it myself but read about it here http://www.nyworms.com/profit.htm
