I'm assuming most of you if not all of you store your rays food and do not go out to the store everyday. What are you guys storing and how are you doing it? How much are you storing and for how long? I wanted to get a mini refrigerator and out it in the stand. I'm trying to get an idea of how much food I can store and for long.
storing food, feeding
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I buy 100-150lbs of shrimp a month and freeze it. I unthaw 4lbs every 1-2 days and feed. I would not go over 4 days with unthawed shrimp.
I have my rays on a diet of pellets and gelled diet. Seasonally I mix in smelt that I net from Lake Superior. Each time it rains I pick nightcrawlers. I buy shrimp once each month.
I have four adult rays and three juveniles.
Pellets: Buy 50lbs, twice a year @$0.72/lb.. Shelf life 6 mo. Frozen 9 mo.
Gelled: Buy 10 kg, twice a year @$26/kg. Shelf life 6 mo. Gelled, frozen, 9 mo..
Smelt: Net 50lbs once a year. Feed whole, unfrozen smelt intermittently.
Crawlers: Whenever it rains I pluck 'em till my back is sore. Usually a quart at a time. Fed to rays almost constantly until gone. (next rain, repeat).
Shrimp: Frozen, farm raised. Market price. Fed to rays sparingly over the corse of each month as a supplement.
Get a chest freezer and take advantage of bulk purchases. The pellets I feed come in a 50lb bag. I vacuum seal 1lb batches and freeze. Gel and smelt much the same. Immediate freezing helps to extend the life of the food.
There are some fantastic reads if you search this forum. Oddball and Miles have published a few good findings.
Respectfully,
FireMedic.
I have four adult rays and three juveniles.
Pellets: Buy 50lbs, twice a year @$0.72/lb.. Shelf life 6 mo. Frozen 9 mo.
Gelled: Buy 10 kg, twice a year @$26/kg. Shelf life 6 mo. Gelled, frozen, 9 mo..
Smelt: Net 50lbs once a year. Feed whole, unfrozen smelt intermittently.
Crawlers: Whenever it rains I pluck 'em till my back is sore. Usually a quart at a time. Fed to rays almost constantly until gone. (next rain, repeat).
Shrimp: Frozen, farm raised. Market price. Fed to rays sparingly over the corse of each month as a supplement.
Get a chest freezer and take advantage of bulk purchases. The pellets I feed come in a 50lb bag. I vacuum seal 1lb batches and freeze. Gel and smelt much the same. Immediate freezing helps to extend the life of the food.
There are some fantastic reads if you search this forum. Oddball and Miles have published a few good findings.
Respectfully,
FireMedic.
i feed pellets, mix massivor, carnivor, earthworm and cichilid gold in a food store tub and feed till i run out then buy more. every 2 weeks normally.
i also use frozen prawn, mussle, bloodworm ect and buy it as i need it probs a bag of each once every couple of months. just thaw the amount i need and feed.
i also buy live earthworms as a treat every couple of weeks and use them as one feed as its only a small tub.
i also use frozen prawn, mussle, bloodworm ect and buy it as i need it probs a bag of each once every couple of months. just thaw the amount i need and feed.
i also buy live earthworms as a treat every couple of weeks and use them as one feed as its only a small tub.
Several rays. I store the shrimp in the freezer and thaw in the fridge, once thawed I would throw them out if uneaten after 4 days...never happens anymore. I'll also buy 1200 canadian nightcrawlers and store in the fridge when I have pups. The worms are good forever as long as you change out the old soil. I also would buy bulk bags of pellets and store in the freezer.sbrodacz;3527397; said:
Mine and other fish get (aside from dried foods) frozen meaty foods such as prawn, squid, mussle, cockle, bloodworm etc. I just store this in the freezer