Hey everyone, so I have had my gar for approximately 15 days and he grew from 4 inches to 4.6 inches (.3 inches per week) on a diet of bloodworm gutloaded rosy reds. I am now thinking of providing a more varied diet by offering crustacean in the form of ghost shrimp and amphibians in the form of dwarf frogs. I am wondering if anyone has fed any of these to their gars and what were the results?
Crustaceans and Amphibians as food
- Thread starter KillaFish
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when my gar were exclusivly on live, thier diet was mainly feeders(goldfish and roseys) and ghost shrimp. they had(and still get) worms, crickets and such but at ur size they couldnt handle alot of that. They def will add it some excitement for ur gar, and some nuetrition
Def go to ur LFS and grab some ghostys. ur gar will love them and will supprisingly have to trouble catching them. my gar still LOVE chasing ghost shrimp. Actually im going shopping today so ill think ill go get some. thanks. lol
Def go to ur LFS and grab some ghostys. ur gar will love them and will supprisingly have to trouble catching them. my gar still LOVE chasing ghost shrimp. Actually im going shopping today so ill think ill go get some. thanks. lol
it's fine to be thinking of a variety for your gar, but i would definitely keep him on the gut-loaded fish for now so he will grow up to proper size at a good rate. mixing things up at these early stages is not advised as the gar needs to grow. if i remember correctly this fish was already somewhat stunted when you got him.
although he has grown 0.3" per week, he should actually be growing a bit faster than that, and should be larger than that for his age anyway. keep him on the gut-loaded rosies, and work on varying the diet once the fish is about 7-8" --
--solomon
although he has grown 0.3" per week, he should actually be growing a bit faster than that, and should be larger than that for his age anyway. keep him on the gut-loaded rosies, and work on varying the diet once the fish is about 7-8" --
--solomon
oops, missed the part of how small it was 
what solomon said. have it pound feeders(mine at that size was goin through 24 feeders in less than 3 days, usually about 2) then when its alittle bigger add in some
what solomon said. have it pound feeders(mine at that size was goin through 24 feeders in less than 3 days, usually about 2) then when its alittle bigger add in some
Just sharing my experience:
I had my FL on Bloodworms when they were 4 to 5 inches. Then had them on a diet of Feeders from 5 to 7-8 inches.
At 7-8 inches, they shared a tank with my Silver Aro who I fed fresh seafood (jumbo krill, fresh shrimps and other assorted sea-food like kalamari, silver sides, basically whatever freshly caught seafood is available at my local fish-market).
At first they didn't touch the shrimps thrown in for the Silver Aro. So, I had to still give them feeders. But one day one of them took a nibble and realized that fresh shrimps are much better than those feeders. Soon the other one converted as well.
They now eat almost all of the seafood mentioned above. This week, I tried to feed them frozen shrimp (which are a LOT cheaper). The Gars gobbled them down..the Aro didn't.
I guess the next big challenge is to get them to eat pellets.
Cheers,
Sid
I had my FL on Bloodworms when they were 4 to 5 inches. Then had them on a diet of Feeders from 5 to 7-8 inches.
At 7-8 inches, they shared a tank with my Silver Aro who I fed fresh seafood (jumbo krill, fresh shrimps and other assorted sea-food like kalamari, silver sides, basically whatever freshly caught seafood is available at my local fish-market).
At first they didn't touch the shrimps thrown in for the Silver Aro. So, I had to still give them feeders. But one day one of them took a nibble and realized that fresh shrimps are much better than those feeders. Soon the other one converted as well.
They now eat almost all of the seafood mentioned above. This week, I tried to feed them frozen shrimp (which are a LOT cheaper). The Gars gobbled them down..the Aro didn't.
I guess the next big challenge is to get them to eat pellets.
Cheers,
Sid
E_americanus;4394568; said:
Yeah I believe so, I double checked with the manager as well as to pick up the bloodworms and rosys. He got the fish in on 7/15 at 3 inches and he fed it bloodworms. I acquired the fish on 8/4 and I measured him to be 4 inches. He is now 4.6 inches on a diet of gutloaded rosy reds. He believes the fish spawned in May (though the distributor said late June and you are indeed correct Solomon on the Gar being a Florida). I am not quite sure who is correct so I am going to take both ranges, so he is 2-3 months going by the manager of the aquarist shop and his distributor's words.
Lepisosteus platyrhincus;4395163; said:oops, missed the part of how small it was
what solomon said. have it pound feeders(mine at that size was goin through 24 feeders in less than 3 days, usually about 2) then when its alittle bigger add in some
haha nice, my boy is pounding one to two 1-1.5 inch rosy reds every 1 to 2 days. I'm hoping he pounds down more feeders.
