tips for breaking rays to new foods

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i just wait for the day my fish are having a realy excited to eat day.then i try mp if there is compatition in the tank even better they usually hit it when it hits the water(fool them) the only fish i cant break is a 12in st. all other dats and rays broken. rays the same when you see your ray hit food hard try mp feed 1 peice of food at a time for a couple weeks to get this type of feeding agro. i even got them hitting algea waffers
 
Thanks for the tips! I feel better about some things to try....
 
My ray ate earthworms right away, he bulked up quick then I wnet to fresh shrimp then to thawed shrimp. Now Im trying to get him shrimp pellets he is starting to take them reluctantly. Thanks for the thread Nic, I enjoy your posts and life is to short to waste time on negative people , brush them off.
 
word..... TTT
 
batang_mcdo;2341761; said:
up for this thread :D tried some nutrafin shrimp pellets on my motoros, but they just ignored the pellets :(


maybe one day it will be sticky worthy :nilly:
 
I tried some pellets again last night, only 1 of them tried, but later ignored, I mashed up some fish and mixed together with the pellets, my motoros just chewed it up making a mess, will try again later.
 
Here's how I have been getting my ray to eat new foods:
When I first got him I got lucky and he was eating nightcrawlers the same day I brought him home and he was already pretty fat. I chopped the nightcrawlers up and stuck them on a feeding prong that he ate the food off of. He was never afraid of the prong and easily ate off of it. After like three days I would put a piece of nightcrawler on the prong and a piece of market shrimp on after the nightcrawler. he would then have to pull the shrimp off to eat the nightcrawler. He ate small pieces of shrimp within a day using this method. He also has already eaten clams and tommorow I'm going to try and get him to eat krill.
 
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