So last year I posted a video of a neonate Bullnose ray. I unfortunately lost her thinking that she could handle some cooler temperatures. She never really ate aggressively enough to put her in the shark tank, and when the temps dropped, I set her heater to 55F thinking that since they ranged to Cape Cod and are considered subtropical I could maintain temps in the lower end of that range. Well that was a mistake.
I'm hoping to have better success with this pair. Though not as social as the cownose, they seem to be doing better as a pair. Plus they were caught together. They are also much less active and docile than the cownose ray which is a big plus and the reason why I've targeted this species again. I don't think much work has been done with them, at least I can't find it.
Anyway, the plan is to condition them to eat from a very shallow platform in the tank because competing with my sharks will be difficult. From last year I learned that starting them on live cracked mussels was the easiest way to ween them off their natural diet of hermit crabs and snails and it worked well this time with a fasting period of only 3 days.
I thought I would post an update on my work with this species. I caught this pair a month ago.
They are the bullnose eagle ray Myliobatis freminvillei , a rarely seen eagleray in the public aquariums, but seem to be easily adaptable to captivity.
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I'm hoping to have better success with this pair. Though not as social as the cownose, they seem to be doing better as a pair. Plus they were caught together. They are also much less active and docile than the cownose ray which is a big plus and the reason why I've targeted this species again. I don't think much work has been done with them, at least I can't find it.
Anyway, the plan is to condition them to eat from a very shallow platform in the tank because competing with my sharks will be difficult. From last year I learned that starting them on live cracked mussels was the easiest way to ween them off their natural diet of hermit crabs and snails and it worked well this time with a fasting period of only 3 days.
I thought I would post an update on my work with this species. I caught this pair a month ago.
They are the bullnose eagle ray Myliobatis freminvillei , a rarely seen eagleray in the public aquariums, but seem to be easily adaptable to captivity.
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