Baby Gars

[Venom SS]

Nice! That guy in the 2nd pic is very eager to feed lol

 

[carcrazy]

Very nice! Feed them feeder or train them to eat pellets. They will grow fast.

I have started feeding them bits of mysis shrimp as well as the bloodworms. I think that they may be still a little too small for live feeders. I tried cutting up market shrimp into really small chunks, but they were still way too big for them. I feed them twice a day and do a 50% water change every second day (they are in a 10g tank). I will be transferring them to the 50g tank with the baby rays (3") soon.

 

[all_or_nothin]

i didnt kno they ate blood worms. good job i would of never though of that

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

careful wit the rays. they have to be big enough the rays wont eat them. and as for the main tank, the tank mates seem OK except for the severum. might want to rethink that guy

 

[Thedaniokeeper]

beautiful fish...
Soooo adorable!

 

[carcrazy]

The rays are really tiny right now (3") but when they get bigger I guess there is a risk (the gars will be long but thin). I am watching my severum, if he gets too bossy I'll have to find him a new home. Right now he guards his spot under a large piece of driftwood but otherwise behaves himself.

 

[E_americanus]

The rays are really tiny right now (3") but when they get bigger I guess there is a risk (the gars will be long but thin). I am watching my severum, if he gets too bossy I'll have to find him a new home. Right now he guards his spot under a large piece of driftwood but otherwise behaves himself.

even when larger i wouldn't worry too much about the rays eating a gar...they may be of appropriate dimensions to be potentially consumed, but there is no way a ray is getting through their scales before digestion, and i would guess the gar would get away and the ray would realize they taste bad before it got the whole fish swallowed --
--solomon

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

i think someone has pics of a ray attacking a gar. couldnt eat it though. gar just swam away

 

[carcrazy]

Oh, thanks, that's good to know!

 

[Fish Tank Fantasy]

Here are my baby gars (4") eating bloodworms. I am growing them out along with an ornate bichir to go into my 270g with a super red aro, a severum, a tinfoil barb and 2 motoro rays (also being grown out). I guess it will be a while before they will be safe with the other fish.

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thats really cool!