13" Florida Gar update 7-24-2010

[iloveoscars702]

Nice. F gars or gars in general are great fish to keep

 

[MeAko]

Would a 17" Florida Gar be okay with my pond's stocklist?

 

[iloveoscars702]

Would a 17" Florida Gar be okay with my pond's stocklist?

id be cautious with the frt. but otherwise it should be fine.

 

[Madding]

My fly river turtle decimated the back fins of pretty much all my gars before I moved it. They are still growing back.

 

[MeAko]

Oh, my FRT is a certified sissy. He has shown tremendous courtesy and I have never seen him even try to nip at anybody. In fact, the kois, ray and ID sharks are the ones that steal food from him right under his nose or in his mouth.

There was this one time, he was floating near the surface eating pellets. When the 30" silver aro came by to investigate, the FRT just continued eating, when a pellet floated close to the silver's face and the FRT floated to his direction to take the pellet, the silver aro gnarled at him big time.

Poor FRT: so gentle--yet so misunderstood.

 

[Madding]

Oh, my FRT is a certified sissy. He has shown tremendous courtesy and I have never seen him even try to nip at anybody. In fact, the kois, ray and ID sharks are the ones that steal food from him right under his nose or in his mouth.

There was this one time, he was floating near the surface eating pellets. When the 30" silver aro came by to investigate, the FRT just continued eating, when a pellet floated close to the silver's face and the FRT floated to his direction to take the pellet, the silver aro gnarled at him big time.

Poor FRT: so gentle--yet so misunderstood.

My FRT was the same way until I tried keeping it with gars. Others have reciprocated that there is something about the gars that draws the FRT's interest. Likely the fact that they don't move much and rest on the bottom.

Try it if you want, but I thought my FRT was a gentle giant as well (still is with other fish) but he hit four gars in about a week and I'm not talking about frayed fins, I'm talking about half of tail fins missing.

 

[scalesandfins]

i love my gar and its amazing how much more personality they get when you hav emore than one

 

[BlackShark11k]

Very nice florida gar

 

[MeAko]

My FRT was the same way until I tried keeping it with gars. Others have reciprocated that there is something about the gars that draws the FRT's interest. Likely the fact that they don't move much and rest on the bottom.

Try it if you want, but I thought my FRT was a gentle giant as well (still is with other fish) but he hit four gars in about a week and I'm not talking about frayed fins, I'm talking about half of tail fins missing.

Thanks for the input, I will keep that in mind.

 

[smartlove_518]

very nice gar....you should definitely try to get another one..the more the merrier...