well, my alligator gar died. was a year and a couple months old and 20 inches or so. the tank is at my sisters house so i cant see him everyday. was there on wednesday night and fed him ( he ate). skipped thursday. and today i drove to minnesota and back for work. was a 19hr day. well my dad calls me and says my gar died. i guess my sister checked in on him about 10am then left to go to a drs appt. she came back at noon and he wasnt in the tank!!! he some how was able to muster enough force to push up the 2 inch plastic piece in the back. he was then crammed between the stand and the wall for like an hr. and on top of that he was next to a wall vent, and he beat the crap out of himself trying to move. i havent seen him yet, but my sis says most of his scales were off and he had scraped out an eye. my sis didnt think it was alive when she saw it but she poked it and it opened its mouth. she called everyone she could to come over in help try to revive it. my mom, dad and sis tried hard to revive it. i guess when they got it back in the tank and after about 20 minutes of moving it around it kinda swam around and fought for its life but then stopped moving. after another 20 minutes of trying to revive him but no luck they gave up. probably better that he died if he was in that rough of shape. my sis says there is blodd and guts all over the wall behind the tank. he made a huge mess for me to clean up. i think i am goona have to take down the whole 120 just to move the stand to clean up the mess..... i cant believe it died. i bet if it had landed on the front part of the tank then he would have been just dry and his slime coat would have been damaged. after listenning to how badly he was hurt and he still had life in him i bet he would had lived had he gone the other way out of the tank. int he end, its my fault probably for maybe not putting a bricvk of something over the plastic part 
