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demjor19

demjor19

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i finally got my little longnose gar on prepared food tonight. ive been using live crickets to draw him to the surface, then i threw in some krill and hoped he would take it. well...tonight he finally took the krill. normally getting a gar onto pellets, krill...etc. is not a hard thing for me to do, but this one took several months. now maybe i can get this little guy fattened up and growing. :D
 
congrats!!i just got mine on pellets as well, took abt 2+weeks, but it's my first time. got bitten loads of times by the critters thinking that my fingers were pellets!
 
Hey congrtas. I had to do the same thing with small freeze dried shrimp. He was a little picky but he has it down now.
 
lol. i used to hand feed my larger florida gar while trying to get him on shrimp and krill. after he nailed me once i stopped. now i just wait until they all come up at feeding time and drop it in front of them. that way i can make sure they all get fed.

my longnose was def. the hardest out of all of my gar to get on prepared foods. now i officially have no fish that need live foods...other than the occasional snack.
 
hw are florida gars with chiclids because i want by the one at my work but i dont want him to get killed or hurt. i would rather find out from one then doing it to find out.
 
Ben_Jam_In;1163940; said:
hw are florida gars with chiclids because i want by the one at my work but i dont want him to get killed or hurt. i would rather find out from one then doing it to find out.
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gars and cichlids dont mix well. i have one frontosa that is very calm and submissive that i keep w/ my gar and they do great together. while gar are small the cichlids could easily injure the gar by chasing them into the glass. after the gar reaches about 10" or more the ciclids start becoming food. either way it's not a good idea.

i would also need to know what kind of cichlids you are speaking of (they very greatly in size and temperament), but if you decide to do this please do so in your own thread.
 
congrats jordan, and well done! with many longnoses i have had success with using a feeding stick (hard line acrylic tubing) and shrimp (raw or cooked), if they are finicky eaters i just fast them for a day or two and they will usually hit it right off the stick. a few days of feeding them off the stick will train them to eventually take shrimp you drop into the tank...my two current YOY longnoses have been trained this way as well, and took about two days to do so...just something to keep in mind for future reference.

again, congrats, and the gar should grow quite well for you from here on out--
--solomon
 
E_americanus;1164236; said:
congrats jordan, and well done! with many longnoses i have had success with using a feeding stick (hard line acrylic tubing) and shrimp (raw or cooked), if they are finicky eaters i just fast them for a day or two and they will usually hit it right off the stick. a few days of feeding them off the stick will train them to eventually take shrimp you drop into the tank...my two current YOY longnoses have been trained this way as well, and took about two days to do so...just something to keep in mind for future reference.

again, congrats, and the gar should grow quite well for you from here on out--
--solomon
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thanks solomon!

where could i pick up a feeding stick or something that would work as one? we have tried fasting this one for several days with no luck. i used a type of feeding stick (a very thin wooden dowel rod) for my smaller florida gar with much success. he started taking prepared litteraly the night we got him.

thanks again
 
demjor19;1164456; said:
thanks solomon!

where could i pick up a feeding stick or something that would work as one? we have tried fasting this one for several days with no luck. i used a type of feeding stick (a very thin wooden dowel rod) for my smaller florida gar with much success. he started taking prepared litteraly the night we got him.

thanks again
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yeah, longnoses have historically been somewhat finicky eaters in terms of getting them onto prepared foods compared to other gar species (you could probably give a t-gar a piece of wood and he'd chomp it down :)). anyway, for the acrylic feeding stick, just go to an LFS and ask for a (desired length...maybe around 12-18") piece of hard acrylic tubing, and they should be able to cut whatever you want as this stuff is just about always lying around. get a pretty thin diameter piece, and you can always sharpen an end to help it skewer the shrimp properly (or just cram part of the shrimp into the end of the tube). hope that helps!--
--solomon
 
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