How many pounds of food do stingrays eat each day?

Answer 1

lots

Answer 2

they eat 400 pound a day

Answer 3

These animals are predators, and they eat all types of invertebrates and also fish, that they catch near or upon the bottom of the ocean (or rivers, in the case of the few freshwater species).

If you look at the ventral side of a ray you'll see its mouth, which appears small and pretty harmless because they don't have sharp teeth like the sharks, but sets of rather flat plate-like teeth.

However, rays can protrude their mouth (i.e. extend it forward outside their body) markedly, and their jaws are quite strong. With those teeth they can crush the exoskeleton of molluscs and other "hard" animals, as well as softer worms and fish.

In addition, stingrays are not as benthonic (bottom-dwelling) as the skates (the ones without stings). They use their wing-like appendages to swim in the water column - some even jump off the water - and can hunt for their prey in all types of oceanic pelagic (=open water) environments.

Bear in mind that the largest of stingrays (the manta rays) are mostly planktophagous (they don't eat large prey, they filter small planktonic animals using special "rakes" situated in their gills). They eat mostly Molluscs and Crustaceans (shells/clams/crabs), and sometimes small fish. Sting Rays will eat Ghost Shrimp and larger shrimp sold in supermarkets for human consumption. You should remove the shrimps shells. Sting Rays also eat angleworms and pieces of fish.

Answer 4

Stingrays are not very active and tend to graze on many different smaller animals throughout the day. Stingrays will eat about 3 pounds of fish, shrimp, smaller fish and scallops per day.

Answer 5

they eat 10 people or 6 to live for one month

Answer 6

50 million pounds

Answer 7

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