Post your husbandtry

[xander]

Tanksize:
Tank volume:
Filtration:
Feeding regieme:
Diet:
Waterchange regieme:
Tankmates:
Substrate:
pH:
MISC notes: eg how long it's worked, if there are problems among tankmates, future plans, etc

post a full tank shot if you like
i'll update mine later.

[ermgravy]

Tanksize: 6x2x3
Tank volume:
Filtration: 3x fx5, 1x 405 x2 internal 4's
Feeding regieme/Diet: cichlid gold bidaily, mp once/twice a week...
Waterchange regieme: once a week 40%
Tankmates: 18" rtg, 10" gulper, 10" tsn, 11" c.pleuro, 2x " raphs.
Substrate: none...
pH: dead 7....
MISC notes: DONT PUT GATORS WITH ALBINO STERLET... der

Oh and Xander u forgot something... err....
GAR STOCK: 2x fl/sp 1 - 14", 1-18"

[xander]

Tanksize: 6x2x3
Tank volume:
Filtration: 3x fx5, 1x 405 x2 internal 4's
Feeding regieme/Diet: cichlid gold bidaily, mp once/twice a week...
Waterchange regieme: once a week 40%
Tankmates: 18" rtg, 10" gulper, 10" tsn, 11" c.pleuro, 2x " raphs.
Substrate: none...
pH: dead 7....
MISC notes: DONT PUT GATORS WITH ALBINO STERLET... der

Oh and Xander u forgot something... err....
GAR STOCK: 2x fl/sp 1 - 14", 1-18"

:D:D:D great to see you back on here man! you've been missing for. forever! how's that african aro! oh yeah i was gna just add the gars into tankmates lol

[ermgravy]

lol ive been lerking but had too little time to post and my phone wont let me stay logged in and post anymore so it is limiting my ability alot.... the afros good hes in a 5x2x3 with a 14" wal.... the gators are gone and the 8' pond is closed for the winter but gone heat it back up soon as looking into that h20 order again... only with out the aul and uping the trops... 6+ :naughty: if i can get them breeding all a pair will cost u is postage dude....

oh i forgot there is also a 27" wal in the 6' with the gars...

[Bsixxx]

Tanksize: 7x2x2
Tank volume: 210 gallons
Filtration: 55gal sump, xp4
Feeding regieme: twice a day
Diet: market shrimp, pellots, sometimes feeders
Waterchange regieme: every three weeks
Tankmates: tropical gar, spotted gar, florida gar, cichlids and chinese perch, rays
Substrate: pool filter sand, and flourite
pH: no idea..:ROFL:

[xander]

Tanksize: 5x3x2

Tank volume: 225gals

Filtration: 75gal sump, powered by rio26HF, 1600GPH

Stocklist: (2)20" cuban gars, 16" florida gar, (3)12" florida gars, 17" alligator gar, 13" endlicheri

Feeding regieme: 220g of shrimp 3 times per week as staple diet, with occasional treats of pellets, whole fish and smelt

Waterchange regieme: 25% per week

Substrate: crushed corals and aragonite

pH: 7

MISC notes: The current stocklist minus the 3 small gars have been going on with little to no aggression for about 3 months, while the 3 small gars have been in there for a week or so with no aggression towards them. the tank is starting to look crowded with so many fish, and i will be toning it down to just the 2 cubans, and 2 small spotteds, with more bichirs. i am still looking to getting tropicals, and will add them when i get some, but as solomon said before, 4 large gars in a tank this sized is actually plenty.

[ermgravy]

but as solomon said before, 4 large gars in a tank this sized is actually plenty.

yeah 2 cubans and when u can 2 trops just keep the sp as fillers in the mean time...

[xander]

yeah, might keep one florida thou:D of all husbandtry habits, i mainly wanted to see if i'm overfeeding, any feedback?

[ermgravy]

id say it sounds about right i have to stuff my 18" fl/sp otherwise he gets a lil snappy....

[E_americanus]

Tanksize:
Tank volume:
Filtration:
Feeding regieme:
Diet:
Waterchange regieme:
Tankmates:
Substrate:
pH:
MISC notes: eg how long it's worked, if there are problems among tankmates, future plans, etc

post a full tank shot if you like
i'll update mine later.

nice. we started this on AP sometime back, but just never kept up with it. i would highly suggest adding temperature to this listing as that is one of the primary factors influencing fishes overall...and based on that recommendations can be made on feeding regime and even water changes--
--solomon

[Weylin]

I wish i still had my old gars.. Anyways i will not be getting any untill i get a much bigger tank...

[CTU2fan]

16"+ L. platyrhincus

Tanksize: 6'x18"x30"
Tank volume: 170G
Filtration: fx5 and 30G w/d
Feeding regieme: 1 or 2x daily
Diet: f/d krill, market fish, hikari cichlid gold & carnivore but he usually ignores the pellets
Waterchange regieme: 50% weekly
Temp: ~78F
Tankmates: Senegal bichir, 2x convicts, JD, 2x severum, chocolate cichlid, pinktail chalceus
Substrate: PFS
pH: ~7.4
MISC notes: eg how long it's worked, if there are problems among tankmates, future plans, etc - Been working for about 10 months (got the gar @ 1'). I expect it would/will continue to work but my tank is becoming too small for the gar, 12' diameter outdoor pond is in the plans this spring.

As for the food volume, my gar probably takes 8-10 f/d krill or 3-4 strips of fish (catfish, tilapia, whatever) each day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on his mood.

[E_americanus]

longnose gar, shortnose gar, spotted gar, Florida gar, Cuban gar, alligator gar

Tank size: 48" x 24" x 24"
Tank volume: 120g
Filtration: 2 x AC 110/500 power filters & ~ 25g sump with 5+ gallons of biomedia, 8 watt UV sterilizer
Feeding regime: 2-day fast between feedings
Diet: shrimp, tilapia, smelt, squid
Water change regime: 50% every other week
Temp: 78-80F
Tankmates: South American lungfish
Substrate: "natural" gravel, large pebble size; 20 lbs aragonite sand; plants - crypts/water sprite
pH: ~7.0
MISC notes: system has been operational for 4 years, recent assembly of gars (relatively speaking) has been together for 1-3 years

[channarox]

when i had my 15g growing out some gars....
Tank size: 24" by 12" by 12",then a 36" by 18" by 18" before i sold them all off.
Tank volume: 15g and 55g i think...
Filtration: a homemade "internal" sump that ran on 2 powerheads.
i forgot what the specs of the powerheads were.
Feeding regime: 1-2 feedings per day,everyday.
occasionally i starved for one day.
Diet: freeze dried krill,tubifex worms,FD tubifex,shrimp,algae wafers,small pellets,live feeders,raw fish.
Water change regime: 60%-70% every 2-3 weeks
Temp: 30 degrees celcius consant....this was without a heater.
Tankmates: 3 hoplias malabaricus,12 barramundis (not all at one time),endlixcongicus,channa striata,african arowana.
these were all growing out.
Substrate: "natural" gravel,and a few pebbles and rocks.
also,fake floating plants.
pH: not sure....was around neutral.
MISC notes: this worked for about 4-6 months.
all fish were around the same size.
the tank itself had been running for maybe 3 years.

[iloveoscars702]

Tanksize: 6ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft (100 gal)
Tank volume:
Filtration: two eheim pro II 2028
Feeding regieme: everyother day at 7 or 8 pm
Diet: cichlid gold, flakes and frozen shrimp
Waterchange regieme: every sunday and i change my quilt batting in the filters everyother week.
Tankmates: 2 oscars, 2 balas, 2 angels, 3 small pim. blochii, tt eel and pleco
Substrate: pfs
pH: i dont remember

MISC notes: uhh need more filtration.. probably going to make a homemade sump from a rubber maid tub and storage drawers, uhmm ima take out the sharks once they are too big, hopfully get a seperate tank for my angels.

[xander]

Tanksize: 6ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft (100 gal)
Tank volume:
Filtration: two eheim pro II 2028
Feeding regieme: everyother day at 7 or 8 pm
Diet: cichlid gold, flakes and frozen shrimp
Waterchange regieme: every sunday and i change my quilt batting in the filters everyother week.
Tankmates: 2 oscars, 2 balas, 2 angels, 3 small pim. blochii, tt eel and pleco
Substrate: pfs
pH: i dont remember

MISC notes: uhh need more filtration.. probably going to make a homemade sump from a rubber maid tub and storage drawers, uhmm ima take out the sharks once they are too big, hopfully get a seperate tank for my angels.

did you actually have gars in there? i think it should be noted that agressive cichlids, well cichlids in general are bad tankmates for gar. and the pleco is probably even worse

[Peter McFarlane]

Tanksize: 5x2x2
Tank volume: 150 gallons apx
Filtration: eheim 2260 classic x 2 + powerhead
Feeding regieme: Three times a day
Diet: Prawns, Massivove, Flake, Bloodworm
Waterchange : 50% every 10 days
Tankmates: Clown loach, cichla mono's, flagtail, pink tailed chalceus, bifasciatum, crenicichla johanna and growing out a 3" gar
Substrate: bare bottom

Decoration: lots of bogwood

[xander]

Tanksize: 5x2x2
Tank volume: 150 gallons apx
Filtration: eheim 2260 classic x 2 + powerhead
Feeding regieme: Three times a day
Diet: Prawns, Massivove, Flake, Bloodworm
Waterchange : 50% every 10 days
Tankmates: Clown loach, cichla mono's, flagtail, pink tailed chalceus, bifasciatum, crenicichla johanna and growing out a 3" gar
Substrate: bare bottom

Decoration: lots of bogwood

not to be a busy body, but this was partly the idea of the thread too. a few issues you might find,
cichla and pike cichlids are pretty bad tankmates for gar.
a 5x2x2 tank is way to big for a 3" gar, especially with those tankmates
lots of bogwood is not necessary for gar, and actually increases the chances of injury

[ctoychik]

3 x alligator gars (two are close ~3', the smaller one is catching up fast)

Tanksize: 3x2x0.8m
Tank volume: 1270g (excluding sump)
Filtration: extrenal sump (with three submersible return pumps)
Feeding regime: daily or whenever
Diet: catfish pellets, farm frogs, fish, crikets
Waterchange regieme: once a month
Tankmates: 2 x RTCs, 1 x Oscar, 1 x Marble Pim
Substrate: none
Temperature: varies (lowest was 16C)
pH: no idea
MISC notes: used to live with 3 arapaimas with no problems ... arapaimas are now all dead from cold spell that we had in January. They do not seem to be bothered by other tank mates and visa versa. My gars in particular do not like shiny silver fish (silver aros, platinum koi etc)

[E_americanus]

when re-copying the original form (not to be a busy body :)), please retype "regieme" as "regime"...it looks bad to see the same word misspelled over and over again--
--solomon

[xander]

3 x alligator gars (two are close ~3', the smaller one is catching up fast)

Tanksize: 3x2x0.8m
Tank volume: 1270g (excluding sump)
Filtration: extrenal sump (with three submersible return pumps)
Feeding regime: daily or whenever
Diet: catfish pellets, farm frogs, fish, crikets
Waterchange regieme: once a month
Tankmates: 2 x RTCs, 1 x Oscar, 1 x Marble Pim
Substrate: none
Temperature: varies (lowest was 16C)
pH: no idea
MISC notes: used to live with 3 arapaimas with no problems ... arapaimas are now all dead from cold spell that we had in January. They do not seem to be bothered by other tank mates and visa versa. My gars in particular do not like shiny silver fish (silver aros, platinum koi etc)

huge fish:D maybe that's why the cichlids and cats leave the gars alone do you suppose?

when re-copying the original form (not to be a busy body :)), please retype "regieme" as "regime"...it looks bad to see the same word misspelled over and over again--
--solomon

ah you got me there...again...

[ctoychik]

huge fish:D maybe that's why the cichlids and cats leave the gars alone do you suppose?

There is only one cichlid and two gars grew-up with it in a 6' tank. The gars were babies while the O was an adult (O is close to seven years old)

RTCs and gars were introduced in the 3x2/0.8m set-up - no problems what so ever

[ermgravy]

when re-copying the original form (not to be a busy body :)), please retype "regieme" as "regime"...it looks bad to see the same word misspelled over and over again--
--solomon

sorry xander but.... :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL: nice1 sol.... and yea i followed he trend but everyone knows i can spell....

[xander]

Tanksize: 5x3x2
Tank volume: 225gals
Filtration: 75gal sump, powered by rio26HF, 1600GPH
Stocklist: (2)20" cuban gars, 16" florida gar, (3)12" florida gars, 17" alligator gar, 13" endlicheri
Feeding regieme: 220g of shrimp 3 times per week as staple diet, with occasional treats of pellets, whole fish and smelt
Waterchange regime: 25% per week
Substrate: crushed corals and aragonite
Water Temp: 26degC/ 80degF
pH: 7
MISC notes: The current stocklist minus the 3 small gars have been going on with little to no aggression for about 3 months, while the 3 small gars have been in there for a week or so with no aggression towards them. the tank is starting to look crowded with so many fish, and i will be toning it down to just the 2 cubans, and 2 small spotteds, with more bichirs. i am still looking to getting tropicals, and will add them when i get some, but as solomon said before, 4 large gars in a tank this sized is actually plenty.

included temp

[Gator]

Tank Size: 8'x4'x2.5'
Volume: 600 Gallon
Filtration: 40G sump w/ Quietone 4000, FX5
Stocklist: 4 Florida gar 1 Longnose gar, 3 Yellow Perch, 2 Green Sunfish 1 Warmouth
Feeding Regime: Hikari Cichlid Pellets, Market Shrimp, Freeze Dried Krill, feeders and Krill fed on an every other day rotation.
Water Change: 30% every other Week.
Substrate: Rinsed Paver Sand from Home Depot
Water temp: Varies. No heaters so in summer its about 75* and winter 60*-65*
PH: 7.1

Notes: I cut down on the Stock a bit removed 1 Perch, 2 Pumpkinseeds and an Green x Bluegill Hybrid. I plan on removing the other 3 Perch and adding anther Warmouth. and Leaving the Stock at that. My Jungle val I added a few weeks ago is doing well and a few of the leaves are bending at the water surface now and I cant wait till the rest catch up.

[jsodwi]

Tanksize: 96"x24"x32"
Tank volume: 300g
Filtration: 38g sump mag18 pump fx5
Stocklist: 3-florida gars, 2-tropical cars widebar dat, 2- albino oscars,Lapredei bicher, ornate bicher, pleco
Feeding regieme: market shrimp, tilapia every other day
Waterchange regime: 25% 2-3 times a week
Substrate: gravel
Water Temp: 80 degrees F.
pH: no clue
MISC notes: I think it needs more filtration the fish range from 12"-20" and as soon as I start feeding them more or go longer on a water change water parameters start to fluctuate too much