Tricks to getting your rays on Hikari Pellets?

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Does anyone have any good tricks to get your rays to gobble these up?

I've tried a few different things, but it hasn't been a huge goal of mine..

What kind of tricks did you use? Assuming the soaking the previous food trick?

Any luck with smaller rays? Carnivore Pellets or Massivore pellets?

Thanks for the feedback everyone!!

appreciate it..
 
good thread Miles I too would like to know........
 
Why not gut load the pellets into something they will take? Do they spit them out? Then ad more and more pellets and see if they acquire a taste for them...?
 
Miles;1387093;1387093 said:
Does anyone have any good tricks to get your rays to gobble these up?

I've tried a few different things, but it hasn't been a huge goal of mine..

What kind of tricks did you use? Assuming the soaking the previous food trick?

Any luck with smaller rays? Carnivore Pellets or Massivore pellets?

Thanks for the feedback everyone!!

appreciate it..
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I got my columbians onto massivore pellets in 3 days. They are about 5 inch disc, breaking off chunks, chewing bits off dispersing everywhere in the water column which they'll mop later.

Motoros no doubt, and in good condition after one round of unlimited ghost shrimp "live" feeding for about 2 weeks since import, my peruvians (a rather different strain: smaller spots; striated lines; dull coloured) never got onto it after repeated trials.

Polka dots are easy too, got them onto trout chumps.

I guess if the rays are begging, shouldn't be too difficult. Give it 3 days they'll be begging for massivore pellets without the tricks, bearing in mind my peruvians are still not on pellets!

Perhaps they needed some tricks as well.
 
Wonder if any has got retics on Pellets before? I didn't feed for a few days then soaked them in krill water, but they just chewed and spit.. the tetras cleaned it up.

Atleast they eat krill :D
 
I have tried with my retics. The columbians wont take them at all just spit them out even if soaked in bloodworm juice. The normal retics were a bit different one did after soaking in worm juice but the other just spat them out.

I guess you just have to persevere and that it depends on the ray. I keep trying but dont like my rays not eating for more than a few days. Others have said that if you persevere for long enough then eventually they will take them.
 
i was lucky just throw them in an the rays gobbled them up even with new born pups they took the pellets from day one

i think the best trick is to soak the pellets in blood worm over night live blood worm is better but frozen will do

feeding pellets does make the rays a bit lazy they seam to be so full they dont move around as much

also try feeding a night with the lights off i feed 1pm and 11pm the rays jump on the pellets more at night as soon as the pellets touch the disk they go mad for them

i would also use the hikari sinking carnivor pellets to start as the massivors may be to big

still feed normal foods but much less mixed in with the pellets
 
I have Hikari sinking carnivore pellets. My rays won't eat the pellets if I try to feed just pellets. I can stuff a few pellets into pieces of shrimp or squid and they will eat them. They seem to catch on after a few pieces of stuffed food though.
 
hey miles this is a good thread
i have had good success and bad i just wounder if it has something to do with the individual ray. i have been working on using more prepared foods like Hakari. i am using a lot of Mazuri aquatic gel some love them just as much as anything i through in the tank others take it and spit it out. my Columbian motor would not take and my young motoros will not take but i have three sub adults in the same tank that will take any thing you put in there. the rays that do except these foods i pretty much did what was suggested. good luck keep trying

john
 
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