3 & 1/2 weeks and still not eating

[E_americanus]

my gar went 2 weeks and finally started eating cut up silver sides. i suggest trying silvers because they are as close as you can get to actual feeders. i think my gar was tempted by the silvers due to them being similar to feeders. once my gar started eating silver sides, he eventually took freeze-dried krill, then frozen beef hearts. i have yet to get him to go for pellets. you have to keep trying. my next effort will be to try market shrimp and frozen tilapia.

definitely agree...i usually use silversides to transition gars to non-live food since they are pretty close to the live fish they usually eat. it has worked on several occasions to use tilapia (cut into longer pieces like small feeders) or shrimp, but silversides seem to have a very high success rate--
--solomon