Stingray stuck in net

[Giwrgos1991]

I just want to share with you the following experience.

Yesterday I had to move my tank, so the fish had to go in a bucket for a while.

While trying to move the fish back in the tank, I tried to catch my motoro stingray with a fishing net.
I don't know how it happened, but the sting of the ray stuck in the net pretty badly. For half an hour I tried to to unstuck it with no results.

So I put the ray in a plastic bag and then I cut the net. A part of the net was stuck in the rays sting, and I had to remove it because I was afraid that the ray could be trapped in the driftwood.

I put the ray in the tank and pulled its tail with a pincer (I grabbed the net) and took me another 15 minutes to remove almost completely the net.

After all that, I thought that the ray would be super annoyed, as a matter of fact I thought that it could die from all that stress.

Surprisingly, after 15 minutes the ray was playing happily in the tank and after half an hour I fed it and it ate like everything was normal.

Are these creatures so cold-blooded?

 

[stingray keeper]

I just want to share with you the following experience.

Yesterday I had to move my tank, so the fish had to go in a bucket for a while.

While trying to move the fish back in the tank, I tried to catch my motoro stingray with a fishing net.
I don't know how it happened, but the sting of the ray stuck in the net pretty badly. For half an hour I tried to to unstuck it with no results.

So I put the ray in a plastic bag and then I cut the net. A part of the net was stuck in the rays sting, and I had to remove it because I was afraid that the ray could be trapped in the driftwood.

I put the ray in the tank and pulled its tail with a pincer (I grabbed the net) and took me another 15 minutes to remove almost completely the net.

After all that, I thought that the ray would be super annoyed, as a matter of fact I thought that it could die from all that stress.

Surprisingly, after 15 minutes the ray was playing happily in the tank and after half an hour I fed it and it ate like everything was normal.

Are these creatures so cold-blooded?

yes they're pretty solid animals. i suggest buying a rubber fishing net. that way they dont get stuck.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

yes they're pretty solid animals. i suggest buying a rubber fishing net. that way they dont get stuck.

Definitely agree with ya there. Can't get stuck on something when there's nothing for the spine to get caught on. I hear of ppl just clipping the spine off of their rays but to me that's just cruel to take away it's only form of self defense even if they will grow a new one again.

 

[Giwrgos1991]

Definitely agree with ya there. Can't get stuck on something when there's nothing for the spine to get caught on. I hear of ppl just clipping the spine off of their rays but to me that's just cruel to take away it's only form of self defense even if they will grow a new one again.

I don't think that the issue will be that the ray will have no barb. I don't have lot of experience with rays but i've never seen mine trying to sting anything. I was trying to remove it from the net for half an hour and it didn't try to sting me not even once.

I think the real issue is that you have to catch the ray and cut the barb off. Also, i think it's pointless.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

I don't think that the issue will be that the ray will have no barb. I don't have lot of experience with rays but i've never seen mine trying to sting anything. I was trying to remove it from the net for half an hour and it didn't try to sting me not even once.

I think the real issue is that you have to catch the ray and cut the barb off. Also, i think it's pointless.

Yeah most ppl I see do that kind of thing to their rays they explain it as a precaution but even still I still think it's cruel to remove it from it's tank just to cut the spine off.

More often then not whenever I hear of ppl getting stung by a rays spine it's usually after it's already been shed off and the owner is just trying to remove the shed spine from the tank, it's more or less so the rays don't injure themselves on the discarded spine. Apparently they are like razor blades so very easy to cut yourself on one.

Personally I love rays even tho I've never kept one myself. Lol I just love how they look like living pancakes with a tail.

 

[Matteus]

In the last 2 months I have moved close to 50 different rays. from 3.5” to almost 3’

the one that gave me the most trouble, was a tiny little 3.5” hystrix hybrid. I had some unexpected fish arrive at my house and I had to move the little guy into a floating box. By the time I got it into the box it’s barb got caught in the net. I had to cut the net away with scissors.

I was hoping it would just fall off, so I let it stay on it. But a few days later I noticed it was puffed up with some fungus so I had to cut the barb off. The ray didn’t even flinch when I cut the barb. I honestly don’t think they feel pain when you cut the barb (properly).

after that no more infection or fungus and the ray was perfectly healthy when it went to it’s new home.

 

[cigars]

I just want to share with you the following experience.

Yesterday I had to move my tank, so the fish had to go in a bucket for a while.

While trying to move the fish back in the tank, I tried to catch my motoro stingray with a fishing net.
I don't know how it happened, but the sting of the ray stuck in the net pretty badly. For half an hour I tried to to unstuck it with no results.

So I put the ray in a plastic bag and then I cut the net. A part of the net was stuck in the rays sting, and I had to remove it because I was afraid that the ray could be trapped in the driftwood.

I put the ray in the tank and pulled its tail with a pincer (I grabbed the net) and took me another 15 minutes to remove almost completely the net.

After all that, I thought that the ray would be super annoyed, as a matter of fact I thought that it could die from all that stress.

Surprisingly, after 15 minutes the ray was playing happily in the tank and after half an hour I fed it and it ate like everything was normal.

Are these creatures so cold-blooded?

I just use Kevin’s @stingraybiology’s method I just use a net to get the ray into a container pour most of the water out and move The ray that way I never net the ray I just use it to guide them. I did however get one of my rays stuck in a small net I was cleaning out some uneaten food and the ray swung his tail at the net and got the barb stuck in it was a pita to remove it. They are very strong bent the rod on the net from trying to swim away.

 

[Matteus]

I just use Kevin’s @stingraybiology’s method I just use a net to get the ray into a container pour most of the water out and move The ray that way I never net the ray I just use it to guide them. I did however get one of my rays stuck in a small net I was cleaning out some uneaten food and the ray swung his tail at the net and got the barb stuck in it was a pita to remove it. They are very strong bent the rod on the net from trying to swim away.

This is how I typically move rays as well. But the little bigger tagged the net when I held it over the bowl so it didn’t jump out moving between tanks. ?