Is he gonna pop!!!!

Man alive.
I dumped 12 minniws in with my gar and he ate 3 of them in under 2 minutes.
Now it's not like I starve him I've been feeding him mollies.
I put about 6 in a week and he still has two in there. While I was piking one of the kids up I stopped by the bait shop and picked up a dozen minnows since I had the cooler with me.
Like I said he ate 3 in under two minutes.
And has 5 1 inch WC minnows and 2 mollies in there.
Did he do this because of abundance or was he really that hungry?
And is that even safe to eat that much?

Rich

Zeke said:

Opportunistic is all. Watch out about live foods. Infections and parasites will be introduced without you knowing. The fun to watch live fish feeding always have a cost. Whether sooner or later.

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I'm always keeping that in the back of my mind.
I'm not to worried about it though these are wild caught fish and if you have ever been to Fla and seen a canal or pier you'd be wondering how anything could live in that contaminated filth.

The minnows I buy are from that famous breeding place out mid west ( so the owner says) that has the disease free pledge. Anderson minnows if I remember. been buying them there off and on for years. The one guy even asked where I had been over the winter (tanks were all tore down to remodel the house)
And the WC minnows come from a lake I fish that doesn't allow motors and is tested bue to the swimming area. ( state park)

So yes, like I said I keep it in the back of my head about contamination.
I have went out of my way to reduce it as much as possible until I can get him on tilapia ( I'm trying )
Also see my "breeding Mollies " thread in the breeding sub forum about that venture , an the hassle I went through with petsmart on the mollie purchase.

Rich

PS: I've always had fish that eat fish, reptiles that eat mice. I'm pretty good/careful about the live food stuff.
Not that it can't happen I'm just as careful as I can be.