Lonenose gar with Tiger shovelnose catfish?

not saying yours will work without issues, but i havea shortnose gar with my tsn but in a 400gal comm. i even have 2 spotted gars in there as well. i've never personally owned a longnose gar but if the temperment is anywhere near the same u should be okay.

my shortnose gar was 22 inches and my tsn was abuot 12 when i first put them together. the tsn has caught up to it since, and everything is still gravy

I would wait until you got the bigger tank.

I mean im just saying this but 25" in a 75g tank?!?!?!? i no you realized you need to upgrade but you gar is 7" longer than the width of your tank. l'm just saying this, because that can be terribly unhealthy for your fish. And off that note, idk if i would trust the tsn with a gar, even with that size difference, tsn can grow big and catfish and gars are normally not a good mixer

ethnics;2488348; said:

not saying yours will work without issues, but i havea shortnose gar with my tsn but in a 400gal comm. i even have 2 spotted gars in there as well. i've never personally owned a longnose gar but if the temperment is anywhere near the same u should be okay.

my shortnose gar was 22 inches and my tsn was abuot 12 when i first put them together. the tsn has caught up to it since, and everything is still gravy

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*Disclaimer*
The above posters single fish is not normal for Shortnosed gar behavior and his experience is really skewed by this.. As has been said more times than once....But yet he still thinks this is normal and still thinks the majority are like his which is totally false.. Why he refuses to except that his experience is very untypical (And take this as really cool for him alone but so not much for others) I really do not know..

He apperently thinks his one fish is how all are and refuses to accept no matter what any additional information one says (Even if they have kept well over 30 to his 1 and actually studied them and observed them regularly in the wild) that his fish is rather rare in behavior.

Now to the question:
NO.... Bad idea..... it sucks and just forget it. TSN can do fine with gar when set up right but you have no where near the correct set up at this time and it is an Ill advised mix. Get the right tank and set it up right or forget it.

I agree with poly here
catfish and gar sometimes work but i wouldnt do it in that size tank
also longnose are, not really sure how to put it, but a more "freagile" gar?guess thats one way. wait untill the big tank then maybe
*note* i have no were near the experience of poly and some of these guys so i am putting my own disclaimer. Im no expert and this is just my opinion with the gars

do you have a pic of your 25" longnose? i did'nt think he'd grow to that size in your 75 gal..
and i agree with the others, don't even think about it till you get a bigger tank..

yes i am puzzled on how it got that big in that tank as well......

Tank size is only a partial factor in the growth of a fish. In the end big fish still get big.