What Do You Feed Your Ray?

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Getting some rays in the future trying to limit the cost of food in the long run so i thought id set up another tank (ill probably get a divorce over this one) and breed something that I could feed my ray's everyday. So let me know what kind of fish I can feed my freshwater rays thats healthy long term please, thanks for reading.
 
Frozen shrimp was the staple food 9f my rays when I had them. Find a local fish market and see if you can buy their scraps. Mine loved them and usually when a ray eats a fish they just eat the head. Every now and then id give mine rosie minnows to hunt but I wouldnt try to feed a ray just live fish. A worm farm would probably be a better home raised live food
 
Depending how many rays you have it can cost more overall trying to grow food vs buying food. They eat allot. Worm farm seemed like a great idea till my pups ate them all in no time flat and I had to work on getting all sorts of stuff to feed them non stop so they would grow and produce well. Pellets are a great cheap option.

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Shrimp are great, along with smelt. Both can be found cheap 3-5 bucks a pound so affordable. But many types do contain thiaminaise, so you don't to feed them exclusively of you want them to live long healthy lives.

I often catch catfish and bass fishing. I filet them and freeze the filets for a couple weeks, then feed to the fishes. I don't think many diseases-parasites survive the freeze, works well for me.



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Tilapia is also cheap for a food fish. But after studying the conditions they are raised in, food they're fed and chemicals used in their Aqua culture, I just go with fish from my Lake that have been frozen.

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Found a site they'll sell you a colony of tilapia consisting of 1 mature male and 5 mature females for $200 (thats just of one breed the other one was $300) thought i'd get those and start a small tilapia farm project, 55 gallon for the colony, and put a mesh divider in my 8' x 4' x 32" pond so i can put the smalls in one side and the med/large's in the other. This way I can pull and fillet fish as needed. Please tell me if you think one colony would be efficient to feed rays on a regular basis as long as I get the tilapia established and breeding first before purchasing and owning stingrays.
 
I think that would be a great idea but you may be able to get live tilapia much cheaper at a local Asian market. Maybe 10 bucks a fish. But you'd definitely need to treat them for everything under the sun to start sterile.

A 55 gallon would be likely too small. Depending on species.

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A lot of people use cichlids because they breed so frequently if you remove the fry. Not sure of the breeding rate of tilapia. I would research that and the max sizes of the species you are considering. I see them live at markets in the 10-12" range consistently so 55 gallon would likely be to small.

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yeah i think id rather buy them from this website, the guy guarantees his fish colony's to already be a breeding colony. http://www.tilapiafarmingathome.com/Pages/default.aspx probably didnt do that right but that will get you to the website. Im gunna do this and get a decent amount of fish going before I buy stingray's. Ill grow them out and fillet and freeze them, feed them to my rays, sell em, eat em kinda works to my advantage. I knew I wanted a pond I just didnt know what I wanted to go in it now im thinking grow out pond :D
 
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