My first Long nose gar

where did you get it from? also post some pics. true longnoses are one of the more rarer species of gars in the hobby.

john

Looks like small Florida gar. Nose will be longer on the longnose and no striped on the side. I will have a bunch of LNG this spring when mine spawn. Maybe you can get one then. The real LNG have a snout that's about 20% longer than the gar pictured. My opinion of course.

Try putting less food every time u feed him and then offer dead


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I know my pickerel, when hes hungry, will take frozen tilapia/frozen minnows (frozen to kill parasites but I don't believe in making a predator eat pelletized food) so thats the next step is to get him taking prepped or dead offerings. Try crushing pellets up, and "dusting" the minnows with it, then when you get him on dead food, do the same thing. If he associates the pellet smell/taste with food, it should in theory be a matter of time before he takes pellets.

Also starvation is good motivation. I use a feeder stick to get mine to eat meat first( shrimp, fish,ect....),then stick some pellets into the meat so it gets used to the taste . They get tame in about a month. If you have koi or other fish in the pond already accepting pellets ,that helps tremendously. A healthy fish won't starve itself to death. Should not be too hard to train it on pellets. Mine eat high quality floating pellets readily. Try the NEW ERA brand (they are soft and actually smell high quality), I really like Hikari Massivore (one of the best,but it sinks though) and Carnivore Sticks (floating,try softening them up for a minute in shrimp or fresh fish juices). Get it tame ,so it knows that you're the food source and you won't have a problem. I have never,nor any of my fishgeek friends have ever had a gar just absolutely refuse prepared food. Good luck. P.M. me your number if you want some real longnose sometime. I have some pictures I will send you of a pair of the baby LNG about 3" long swimming around with both their toothy little jaws on one minnow, refusing to let the other have it. Like 2 dogs on a bone! Lol!!!

Get it fat then starve it, maybe when its a little bigger. Keep feeding it so it can gain some weight and length and then start pellet training or whatever when the gar is large enough, mine learned when they were 12 inches but they were Tropicals which are more accepting to different foods in my opinion.

nice!