Stingray Food Bill? Let's Share and Compare.

[ShadowStryder]

5 leos
2 leo/hens

all between 14" and 20" disk width

not exactly sure but im guessing about $200 bucks a month. i feed shrimp, smelt, and earthworms. about 2lbs of food per day

females are the ones that break your wallet. i would say my females eat about twice as much as my males, especially when prego



dang why havent we seen all these great rays??? post em up lol

edit: i just searched all your threads. great lookin group!!

Told them this Dirty Sanchez Character is flying under the radar, what he isn't telling
you is what the 3 miscellaneous rays are.

 

[DB junkie]

I'm probobly around the $200 and climbing per month group. This gel stuff seems to be making the food stretch, but likely cause they aren't used to it or I put too much unknown food in it.

(3) 15-20" adults. (2) 12" (4) 9-10" (2)5-6" All Marbles for now.

 

[Totroc3]

I have 4 Motoros (2M and 2 F) and 1 M Retic all are 6" to 9"

I feed them 8lbs Shrimp a month, 2lbs Tilapia, 1lb of black worms and about 1200 earthworms of various size. Because the earthworms come from my manure pile from the horses and donkeys I don't pay anything for them. The rest of my food is about $60.00 a month. I feed two to 3 times a day so I don't mix the foods together. I make sure they eat a variety this way. I am trying to introduce pellets but without much success. Great thread.

 

[ajsmith235]

DANG shadow... Trev just raped ur MFK, we have a stalker hahah just kidding trev, i do it too!

 

[Brent]

i feed my rays about half pound of shrimp per pair dailey ill skip a day here and there i spend about 80.00 a month on my fish foods i have alot of fish though 7 large rays and 12 pbass dats etc,...

 

[sebarau]

my input here. Hope it's help.

1. Weekly or Monthly Bill
$50 - 100 USD per month
2. Type/Name of Stingray(s)
marble motoro, leopoldi, pearl, marblexpearl.
3. Size of Stingray(s)
between 10 to 17 inches
4. Quantity of Stingray(s)
15
5. Type of food(s): i.e. shrimp, tilapia, worms, pellets, etc.
yellow tail scad, anchovies, squid, some time live feeders.( no shrimp nowadays due to high prices compared to fish and squid)

6. How many pounds of each food
approx 12 kg total. 5-8 kg yellow tail scad or anchovies, 4kg squid.

7. Number of feedings per day
1 feeding per day.

 

[Mr.AzulBass]

Heres my budget for 1 marbled motoro

1. Weekly or Monthly Bill
$30-50 USD per month

2. Type/Name of Stingray(s)
marble motoro

3. Size of Stingray(s)
between 7 and 9 inches

4. Quantity of Stingray(s)
1

5. Type of food(s): shrimp, tilapia, worms, pellets, etc.

6. How many pounds of each food
2lbs of frozen market shrimp every 2 weeks.
two boxes of petsmart 12ct large NC's every 2 weeks.
1lb tilapia every 2 weeks

7. Number of feedings per day
1 feeding per day.

Doing this calculation makes me affraid to get a second ray which i have been thinking about since his move from a 75 to a 150. lol i still am going to get one i think a brazilian in the near future.

 

[Exotic Aquatics LLC]

i wonder what h2o's bill is it has to be close to 2k a month.

mike if u see this thread please let us know a ball park estimate.

by the way the BD is doing great.

thanks

 

[SwellyJelly]

Bump, curious to see how others are spending monthly on their ray diets

 

[Dieselhybrid]

I'm a fisherman so I started to catch my own food. Halibut, trout, salmon, rockfish, cod, perch, bass, sunfish. I filet, vacuum seal and deep freeze for about a month. Then thaw, soak in vitamin solution and feed. The deep freeze is to comply with Sashimi standards and "cold cooking" to help kill any parasites and potential infections.