Stabilizing new rays

[Leo]

Originally Posted by marshy

What some farms who import rays do when they encounter such situation is to force feed the ray.
They will prepare clean tubifex worms and then force inject them into the ray through the gill opening. The tubifex will go straight into the stomach.

Wow i like this method!!! wonder would it work for large rays...

[alanng]

Originally Posted by Leo

Wow i like this method!!! wonder would it work for large rays...

normally this method is for rays, that dont feed by themselves. so we have no choice but to force feed..

Originally Posted by marshy

What some farms who import rays do when they encounter such situation is to force feed the ray.
They will prepare clean tubifex worms and then force inject them into the ray through the gill opening. The tubifex will go straight into the stomach.

wow this is very interesting. Thank you for the information

takes a lot of skill and guts to do too!

[alanng]

Originally Posted by DC49

takes a lot of skill and guts to do too!

hmmm.. when the ray is not feeding, the ray is very weak to move around le..so that why able to force feed. healthy rays are always swimming around, hardly any chances for force feed, as they are feeding well. so normally, just use those tomato bottle, fill with cleaned tubiex worms, the narrow opening of the bottle, insert into the gills on the surface of the rays, immediatly just squeese the bottle. some of it will flow out, but some will direct into the stomach.

Originally Posted by naser90096

can try that too bro ... but i'm not sure how effective it would be.
I was juz following instruction on the bottle ....

interesting...will the liquid be diluted or even absorbed by the filter system?

[naser90096]

Originally Posted by st11_mini

interesting...will the liquid be diluted or even absorbed by the filter system?

i believe it will be ....

Now the ray is in my tub together with another sakura pair. She is eating and slowly hunting, can see a slight hump on her back normally .... waiting to train her to take SW, then can put her back with her mate

Originally Posted by naser90096

i believe it will be ....

Now the ray is in my tub together with another sakura pair. She is eating and slowly hunting, can see a slight hump on her back normally .... waiting to train her to take SW, then can put her back with her mate

good luck mate, wishing her a speedy recovery

Originally Posted by alanng

hmmm.. when the ray is not feeding, the ray is very weak to move around le..so that why able to force feed. healthy rays are always swimming around, hardly any chances for force feed, as they are feeding well. so normally, just use those tomato bottle, fill with cleaned tubiex worms, the narrow opening of the bottle, insert into the gills on the surface of the rays, immediatly just squeese the bottle. some of it will flow out, but some will direct into the stomach.

Cool!!! Thanks for sharing.