Are Gars the fastest growing fish??

[Ramesh]

nice fish sir you got there!!!!
you have clown knife?royal knife,gator gar,peacock bass and many more!!!!

Yes I do of course!!!
I have a baby TSN who lives with the baby Temensis.
An 18-20inch Leichardti Saratoga and a 16inch Petenia Splendia who live together with 3 10-12inch Sailfin Gibbiceps. And of course the Doviis, one 14 inch male all by his lonesome and another 7inch male who lives with 3 smaller female Dovi.
I am excited about my new 6x2.5x2.5 that gets delivered this Saturday which will house the Saratoga and his gang and the Doviis are moving into his 6x2x2 divided so the don't kill each other of course.
Once my other little monsters grow (Monos, Emperors, Temensis, CKF, TSN, Gar ect) they will going into my 500g next year.
The 260g (6x2.5x2.5) tank I get on Saturday cost me only $750.
It is a custom built marine tank built for a customer who backed out.
It has an inbuilt trickle filter and comes with a cabinet stand.
I can't wait to get it into my fish room.
Sorry the pics are ****.....

 

[Ramesh]

Ramesh-AWESOME collection!!!great choices of future monsters and when I do get a tank upwards of 500 gallons it will definitely mimic your chosen species.good luck man and i hope you have much success and can post future pictures of the monsters.I love the emperors and cichla the most.personally,I am not a huge fan of gars although I have had a needlenose in the past.I have been spending alot of time on studying emperors and asst. bass (for short)and just picked up3 orinos almost 2 weeks ago to add to my collection.

Thanks mate I'll post more pics of my new tank and my fishes ASAP.
I would love to have more fish but but my plan is to have 3 tanks, a 180g, a 260g and a 500g.
And an outside pond for the Gator.
Emperors are great but they are very greedy and much less skittish than the South American Cichlids when young.
This means they are able to feed while the other fish initially hide.
Also they will feed from the surface (pellets) and then eat the sinking food as well meaning the plecs or CKF have to be quick or the Eperors will consume everything in the tank.
I think that's why they too grow so fast. They are able out compete the South American Cichlids for the available resources which is probably a trait of a lot of lake bound African Cichlid species.

 

[D-Train]

sweet dovii there pretty much my fa fish haha the first one is really red its awesome man