Feeding small gar?

[Cowturtle]

Baby gar for sure. the larval stage have the weird tail and no snout yet. I would try frozen baby brines shrimp or small blood worms. If you gather some wild algae mats there's all kinds of invertebrates living in it that you can probably feed it on til it's big enough to eat more frozen. Mosquito larvae would be another good choice.

 

[beau1990]

I second what Cowturtle said, when my daughter caught our baby Lng it was new born guppy fry and mosquito larvae till he gained some size then it was tadpole and larger guppies

 

[Liam515]

Thanks I was thinking it was a gar but my dad said it could be a sturgeon. That was the best side image I could get (he bid not enjoy it). The idea about getting the algae clumps is a great idea I might go it but my mom might not like it because of the mosquitoes.

 

[Ferretfish12]

If it’s a gar, try blood worms or fruit flies on the surface of the water, If it’s a sturgeon, I would recommend trying just the blood worms for now. I’m not nearly an expert on sturgeon but I know a lot about gar. BTW, looks like a gar to me, but it looks like it has a curved snout, which is in most sturgeon I’ve ever seen online.

 

[Ferretfish12]

If it’s a gar, try blood worms or fruit flies on the surface of the water, If it’s a sturgeon, I would recommend trying just the blood worms for now. I’m not nearly an expert on sturgeon but I know a lot about gar. BTW, looks like a gar to me, but it looks like it has a curved snout, which is in most sturgeon I’ve ever seen online.
Never mind

If it’s a gar, try blood worms or fruit flies on the surface of the water, If it’s a sturgeon, I would recommend trying just the blood worms for now. I’m not nearly an expert on sturgeon but I know a lot about gar. BTW, looks like a gar to me, but it looks like it has a curved snout, which is in most sturgeon I’ve ever seen online.

Never mind, it’s actually a gar seeing the other pictures And the fact that one looks like is just chilling on the surface.

 

[Liam515]

It being on the surface was one of the reasons I thought it was a gar

 

[Siddons11]

Definitely gar, collect mosquito larvae or other fish fry for food off possible

 

[Ferretfish12]

Definitely gar, collect mosquito larvae or other fish fry for food off possible

Actually, you shouldn’t feed it mosquito larvae as they have a high risk of infecting your gar with a desease.

 

[Liam515]

Ok thanks I didn't know that. I have never feed them before

 

[Cowturtle]

I would trust mosquito larvae I’d say it’s probably the lowest risk love food there is. I just actually managed to catch 4 fry myself today.