when i got my first gars among the four florida gars one of them had a broken back
a few pics
and after a few weeks of good food, he/she looks like this
still looks crooked but the back is damn straight
feed them twice a day, aro pellets, tubifex worms, live frogs, beef heart
i catch them from my koi pond
they are mostly toad spawns from some unauthorized toads accessing my koi pond. lol
just once in a while, when i catch just one or two