Cant get gars to eat floating stix??

michael

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Should I starve them till they eat it?? After 1 minute the food sinks and dissolves. Doesn't give much time unless they attack instantly. Went with tetra carnivorous stix. The hikari ones looked too small.
 

clare

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Just a word of warning-one of our gars starved its self for 3 months before deciding to eat again.No food change-just an awkward fish.
 

aquaholic

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mine feed on f.d.krill, hikari pellets, few sm. fish, well everything even pinkie mice
 

Polypterus

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I feed the same tetra sticks and know exactly what you mean in saying they fall apart, The best way to get a gar to top feed is to offer it frozen silversides right at the surface, after a bit the fish recognizes that it's food comes from above.

Once trained at this they usually will take all foods offered at the surface quickly.

I'm not sure what species of gar you have or the size of the fish However any gar under the size of 10 inches should never be starved. Gar are designed to grow quickly and with out proper nutrition in the first year they tend to suffer from it.
 

rk59

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Hi,

I have one of L. osseus, oculatus, tropicus and crocodile gar hybrid. All of them started eating pellets and sticks after a while. Beside that they eat frozen fish.

Reiner
 

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mine loved mussels and pealed prawns got some really fine cotton just nicked the tail of pealed prawn jigged it around he then attached it in the end just dropped them in the tank in front of him that was my spotted gar the alligator gar I had just ate every thing not a problem :thumbsup:
 
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