Algea on Gars back????

[aidenb]

Mine has something similar on it's head. My Florida is very dark in coloration and the green on is it dark aswell, so far I'm just assuming it is just the fishes color as it seems very healthy.

 

[knifegill]

Yes, it's probably just color. But, if it were algae, and the snail did decide to ride the gar (which it probably would, as they tend to crawl on anything living or dead), I'd think it would work well. The potential for the snail to intentionally leave the gar is not known by either of us for sure, but imagine you are a snail placed on an algae-rich surface. You would eat. That's their primary occupation. Eating. I don't know why it would decide to leave the nutritious surface. Any other ideas opposing a snail ride?

 

[xander]

Yes, it's probably just color. But, if it were algae, and the snail did decide to ride the gar (which it probably would, as they tend to crawl on anything living or dead), I'd think it would work well. The potential for the snail to intentionally leave the gar is not known by either of us for sure, but imagine you are a snail placed on an algae-rich surface. You would eat. That's their primary occupation. Eating. I don't know why it would decide to leave the nutritious surface. Any other ideas opposing a snail ride?

just to humor you, probably the 100+ snails in my tank who've decided to starve to death rather than take a ride on my gars

 

[E_americanus]

Yes, it's probably just color. But, if it were algae, and the snail did decide to ride the gar (which it probably would, as they tend to crawl on anything living or dead), I'd think it would work well. The potential for the snail to intentionally leave the gar is not known by either of us for sure, but imagine you are a snail placed on an algae-rich surface. You would eat. That's their primary occupation. Eating. I don't know why it would decide to leave the nutritious surface. Any other ideas opposing a snail ride?

i have soooooooo been waiting to use this pic...

 

[m245]

Carefully stick a pond snail on his back. The algae will be gone in a day!

You just cannot 'stick' a pond snail onto a fish's back. The snail will retract to its shell at the sightest movement of your hand. It definitely will fall off right away when you move away your hand.
I once put a few pond snails in my gator gars' pond to keep algea under control. The gars and the snails never bothered each other. But the stench of dead snail really put me off that I had to throw them away.

 

[haxjester]

OK... I'm very sorry if this is inappropriate... but I could not get this image out of my head after reading this thread. I can't be the only one?! So I had to create it.

I mean no offense at all by this pic, but the mental image had me cracking up!

@ the OP, sorry I have no advise to add, hope you get it figured out, and the fish stays healthy for a long time

 

[E_americanus]

OK... I'm very sorry if this is inappropriate... but I could not get this image out of my head after reading this thread. I can't be the only one?! So I had to create it.

I mean no offense at all by this pic, but the mental image had me cracking up!

@ the OP, sorry I have no advise to add, hope you get it figured out, and the fish stays healthy for a long time

hilarious!

and to the OP - there is likely no algae growing on your gar, just an anomaly of pattern that looks like algae. without pics, we can only assume that that is what it is (given the probability of algae growing on a captive gar...it's POSSIBLE, but very unlikely).

that being said, we can likely just find humor in the remaining ridiculousness of the rest of this thread --
--solomon

 

[knifegill]

Ride 'em garboy!

 

[msjinkzd]

 

[Noddy]

Ride 'em garboy!

Yippie Kayee!!!!
I'm a poor, poor lonesome Garboy, and I'm a long, long way from home!