An update of my spotted gars!

[MonsterMinis]

Crazy wicked patterns

 

[HungDang]

So wicked man, what's the full stocklist and what do you feed?

right now I have 6 spotted gars and 2 kinrin yamabuki ogon in there. In these pic I was feeding them the saki hikari growth koi food but I feed them a lot of different thing like: dead fish(I found that feeding live increase the aggression and they attack the koi), shrimps, earth worms, tilapia filet, Hikari cichlid gold pellet, saki hikari growth koi pellet(just bought it like a week and all the fish love it), Dainichi premium koi pellet(which is just ran out so I bought the saki hikari growth, all the fish didn't really like it as much as the saki hikari and a lot of pellet sink while it is floating pellet. And also this might be the reason of the gars' good coloration since it has part color enhance food), other than those I also give them cricket and grasshopper when I have the chance.

 

[Chub_by]

Cool, how are the yamabuki growing for you? Mine is so slow it's terrible.

 

[HungDang]

Cool, how are the yamabuki growing for you? Mine is so slow it's terrible.

I had them for about 18 month now and I didn't feed them at all in the last winter(about 3-4 months or so), they was about 4 inches when I got them and now they are about 17'' for the male and 18'' for the female

 

[Chub_by]

That's awesome

 

[HungDang]

Crazy wicked patterns

thank you those pattern seem to be one of the most common pattern on spotted gar in the south.

 

[noelsfishland]

cool looking gars were do you catch them? what state do you live in I have two 13 inch spotted in a 150 gallon tank waiting for them to get a little larger so I can move them into my 420 gallon tank. My mother lives in Oklahoma were i caught some giant green colored ones with a lure called a gar getter. What do you use

 

[HungDang]

cool looking gars were do you catch them? what state do you live in I have two 13 inch spotted in a 150 gallon tank waiting for them to get a little larger so I can move them into my 420 gallon tank. My mother lives in Oklahoma were i caught some giant green colored ones with a lure called a gar getter. What do you use

I use a piece of rope with no hook.

 

[HungDang]

so this is the update of all my gars before it get too cold and they stop eating.
25'' spotted gar(possibly female?) caught in Sept, 2012. She was 24'' so she can still grow?

24'' male spotted gar caught back in April, 2012. This guy is my very first gar!

26'' spotted gar(possibly male?) caught in November, 2012.

23'' spotted gar caught in Sept, 2012.

20'' spotted gar caught in Oct, 2012. Was 18'' so this guy did grow quite a bit.

22'' spotted gar(according to Solomon aka E_americanus) caught in Sept, 2012.

 

[arowanaryan]

Wow the top of the oldest male is just beautiful. Great gars. I've never seen a real genuine spotted till now I don't think.