Atractosteus spatula

[Bluey]

howdys I hope this hasent be asked before.. I tryed a serch but coulden't find an answer...... Found everything but!


I am seting up a larger pond for my alligator gar Atractosteus spatula in the next 6 months or so , and need to know the lowest temp they can "handle" as sutch I plan on heating the pond between 22-26C ( 71.6F - 78.8)

er how low can they go??

 

[Bluey]

um.... anyone????

 

[Polypterus]

40 F and likely lower... They are not Tropical fish....

 

[Bluey]

40 F and likely lower... They are not Tropical fish....

40F???? Thats bloody aswesome! ( I don't have to heat up the backyard)

Time to boot out the gigas and get more gattor gars

Thanks for your reply.

 

[city_of_evil6661]

from what i have heard (im taking it that you have arapaima gigas) they sometimes do well with gators. but that is only what i have heard it may not be true.

 

[Bluey]

from what i have heard (im taking it that you have arapaima gigas) they sometimes do well with gators. but that is only what i have heard it may not be true.

I have a Gigas in with one gattor atm ( there the same size) but if the gattors can handle lower temps i will seperate them and keep the gigas with other south americans , or just a few gigas on there own.

Prob I have with them is the gattor likes to slowly hunt his food but the gigas is insane and tends to spook the gattor every now and then , so its Best I sperate I guess.

 

[ctoychik]

I tried to keep gigas with aligators. not yet successful. i moved gigas away to grow it out some more. Now it is longer than the gator so i will be moving mine into gator's home (and hope RTC will not eat gigas) and hope gator does not bite it too much.

You are absolutely right, gigas are absolutely hyper especially when they hunt for live food.

 

[Bluey]

I tried to keep gigas with aligators. not yet successful. i moved gigas away to grow it out some more. Now it is longer than the gator so i will be moving mine into gator's home (and hope RTC will not eat gigas) and hope gator does not bite it too much.

You are absolutely right, gigas are absolutely hyper especially when they hunt for live food.

haha It seems best to grow them all up serperatly at frist and then try them again when there bigger.

 

[ctoychik]

haha It seems best to grow them all up serperatly at frist and then try them again when there bigger.

^^ actually i wish that i raised gar and paimas together ... did not work out well for the silver aro in the past though ...it got trashed and later died of injuries (so it could have went bad also).

I will move my paima into gar tank (2x3m) in couple of months. The problem is this: my paima tank uses salt while the gar tank is salt free. could be unpleasant for paima i think. Contemplating building another 2x3m just for the paimas....

PS: the two gars that i have live peacefully with 2 RTCs since i first mixed them. They eat exactly the same pellets and other live food -absolutely no agression. yesterday added two 7" pacus (roll the dice on this one - good chance that RTC will eat them but pacus were competing for food from two silvers)

 

[city_of_evil6661]

i had no idea gigas were like that when hunting. learn something new every day.