Blue Spotted Stingray Feeding Tips (on my experience)

[heathsharky]

About a couple months before I had my 2 round stingrays I have currently, (Mr. Ray and Cali) I had a magnificent male blue spotted ribbontail stingray (Taeniura lymma) which is a species that is not hardy and very difficult to keep. I named him Raymond and he was in a tank with 3 baby round rays and all of the stingrays ate, and I got him because he was a healthy blue spot but once he got to my tank, he burrowed under the sand and refused to eat the frozen shrimp and krill I fed my other round stingray pups I had at the time. I feed him live feeder shrimps on tongs, and slowly introduced him to the tongs by keeping them near the live shrimp every time I fed Raymond until he ate from the tongs and got used to them. He eventually got used to the tongs and never had to hunt, find, and compete with the faster and hardier round stingray pups. It took him about 2 - 3 weeks in total to get him used to the tongs and his new feeding schedule. I sadly don't have this guy anymore as he hurted himself after getting unstuck from some rock and refused the food he was used to eating, and unfortunately passed away due to his non hardy nature. but now I will spread my information from my experience down to people who want an animal as wonderful and incredible like the blue spotted ribbontail stingray.

 

[heathsharky]

Here is some pictures of Raymond too when I had him:

One of my favorite pictures of Raymond

Him chilling on the bottom

him eating something and one of the pups (Joel)

 

[Jcar]

The local fish store has a male for sale right now. What size tank did you have him in?

 

[heathsharky]

I got him about a year ago and I had him in a 75 gallon (which I know is small for a blue spotted ribbontail stingray)

 

[Sharkandreef]

About a couple months before I had my 2 round stingrays I have currently, (Mr. Ray and Cali) I had a magnificent male blue spotted ribbontail stingray (Taeniura lymma) which is a species that is not hardy and very difficult to keep. I named him Raymond and he was in a tank with 3 baby round rays and all of the stingrays ate, and I got him because he was a healthy blue spot but once he got to my tank, he burrowed under the sand and refused to eat the frozen shrimp and krill I fed my other round stingray pups I had at the time. I feed him live feeder shrimps on tongs, and slowly introduced him to the tongs by keeping them near the live shrimp every time I fed Raymond until he ate from the tongs and got used to them. He eventually got used to the tongs and never had to hunt, find, and compete with the faster and hardier round stingray pups. It took him about 2 - 3 weeks in total to get him used to the tongs and his new feeding schedule. I sadly don't have this guy anymore as he hurted himself after getting unstuck from some rock and refused the food he was used to eating, and unfortunately passed away due to his non hardy nature. but now I will spread my information from my experience down to people who want an animal as wonderful and incredible like the blue spotted ribbontail stingray.

What size is your tank? If it's less than 2k, you might be SOL. These require minimum 10,000 gallons.