View Full Version : What floating sticks might I have better luck getting a gar to eat!?
michael
11-21-2005, 12:47 AM
Heard its bad to use live feeders too much so i want to go and get some floating sticks! Any recommendations!?
DeLgAdO
11-21-2005, 12:56 AM
hikari make a carnivorus floating stick
the package has a silver arowana on it
clare
11-21-2005, 12:46 PM
To be honest none of our gars or garfish will eat any pellets.We feed whitebait,prawn,cockle and mussel chopped,shredded or whole depending on the size.
Monster VooDoo Fish
11-21-2005, 1:49 PM
All the gars that I kept over the years would eat Hikari carnivore sticks.
channa, pikes, piranha, stingrays, bichirs and wolf fish all ate the stuff.
IMO the best pellet you can get.
yourmylunch
11-22-2005, 12:08 AM
try frozen packaged fish if you are woried about disease. whole fish not just fillets. you can also stuff them with good stuff after thawing like cyclopeyes
CichlidPharmer
12-12-2005, 9:58 AM
"Azoo" has the "9 in 1 Arowana Sticks".
The jar says: for all arowana and large carnivorous fish.
You may also try their dried Krill.
My aros seems to like both.
Polypterus
12-14-2005, 12:29 AM
I use a great variety of prepared foods including the Hakari and Azoo aro foods
all are well taken. A staple food though is Tetra Jumbomin. this food works very well with trained fish, not so good for those that do not take the food instantly though.
I have personally found a wide variety of foods to be taken with little or no issue once a fish recognizes it as a food item.
Right. Once they accept the idea of pellets they're not all that picky. The jumbomins are good if they're used to them, but tend to disintegrate if left uneaten very long. Hikari food sticks excel, but most good cichlid pellets are taken as well. Trick is to get them to accept them at all. Once you've done that, no probs.
redticker05
01-22-2006, 11:08 AM
use shrimp pellets couple times a week they will learn to love them
Killergar
01-23-2006, 1:15 AM
My Fl Gar loves the hikari pellets now, It took about 4 days before he would finally touch it now he's hooked on it..
DeLgAdO
01-23-2006, 1:32 AM
Starve them for two weeks, and they'll take the hikari sticks or the new life spectrum XXL pellets.
yep josh pretty much got it