Need help! Something bit my arowana!!!

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Knife was 2/3 of the gar..
 
Naos1984 said:
Sorry for your loss but I kinda thought this would happen. So far with my experience with gars, they are pretty adventurous with their food. They will try to eat even if they are just slightly hungry. They are very much like Oscars with bigger eyes than their mouths.
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Looks to me just a case of not researching or ignoring the information found while researching. OK though cause the LFS will always sell ya more.
 
brian, that is being a tad to rough, imho. Mistakes are done by all.

Have you not had gars with aros? How many MFKers have tried it?

The op was genuinely distressed at what happened, i believe. Why such strong criticism?
 
Sorry, but I call it the way I see it. We put these fish in the situations they are in, when they go bad we should feel like crap about unless we don't care if the fish is killed off. I don't keep gars because of the research that Ive seen says it would be a bad mix, too much risk. I do have other fish that are at risk in my tanks, if I loose them it is expected and I wont feel sad about it, but I sure as heck won't risk something I care about.
 
the gar did it. It looks that half of the aro is gone!
 
Bderick67 said:
Sorry, but I call it the way I see it. We put these fish in the situations they are in, when they go bad we should feel like crap about unless we don't care if the fish is killed off. I don't keep gars because of the research that Ive seen says it would be a bad mix, too much risk. I do have other fish that are at risk in my tanks, if I loose them it is expected and I wont feel sad about it, but I sure as heck won't risk something I care about.
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Here's how i see it...you're speaking about something that you know nothing about! All of mine or anybody elses research suggests that gar and aros are perfectly suitable tankmates. Do YOURSELF a favor and do some research. In 10 seconds i can type "gar arowana" into a youtube search and see dozens of examples of these fish co-habitating perfectly.

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brettsdad2011 said:
Here's how i see it...you're speaking about something that you know nothing about! All of mine or anybody elses research suggests that gar and aros are perfectly suitable tankmates. Do YOURSELF a favor and do some research. In 10 seconds i can type "gar arowana" into a youtube search and see dozens of examples of these fish co-habitating perfectly.

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Your mistaken, just have a look at your aro.
 
Youtube is great place for misinformation and good examples of what not to do. People throw some fish in a tank, shoot a vid and you think its "golden"? C'mon do some actual research on the care of each species.
 
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