You have a difficult case here.. ideally what you would want to do is separate the fish so it is by it self or just with the Florida gar. It is stressed and at a lowered level of condition. Reduce the stress and it may begin feeding better. At this size it is dangerous for any gar to have reduced it self this much and sadly it is hard to pull them out once they get this far. It can be done but it will require you removing the fish to calm conditions and then try to get it to feed much more. I'd suggest you try thawed frozen silversides or any other whole body fish rather than shrimp. Try to feed the fish directly.. Get some skewers and stake the food on it and present it directly to the fish. If the fish takes food well like this do not over feed it. Just give it a most 2 silversides every two days. If you try and feed it too much right now it will just make things worse. You want to slowly ramp up the feedings until you see the fish clearly getting into better condition. Live rosy or fathead minnows may spark him up or maybe not but you may want to try. Again though even with the live food only add a few and not a whole lot.Frequency of water changes. 25 percent every other day. It's at 79 degrees, I fed it fresh shrimp daily and he is eating small bits right now. Not enough to make it worth it. Other tank mates are Lima Shovelnose, tiger Shovelnose hybrid, and Florida gar. All in a 10 gallon grow out tank.
Gar was in my 55 gallon tank and someone was picking on him so I moved him over to that tank once again. Soon he will go into my 37 tank and then off to the 55 then off to the 150! He is about 5 inches now.
Your help is greatly appreciated
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