Floating pellets

[sumitds]

Can Florida/spotted gars eat floating pellets? Has anyone ever tried them?

 

[headbanger_jib]

mine have grown from 3" to 14" on pellets(food sticks) and dried shrimp

 

[xander]

yes they can it's actually better than feeders but shrimp would be best, as it is easier for pellets to be left uneaten.

 

[Polypterus]

yes they can it's actually better than feeders but shrimp would be best, as it is easier for pellets to be left uneaten.

A varied diet including Pellets, shrimp, cut fish and whole fish is better.. Shrimp alone lacks required vitamin and mineral content. Unless you supplement it you have a diet that is lacking for proper maintenance of the fish...

 

[Miguel]

Mine love pellets. The floating kind.

 

[CTU2fan]

Mine won't touch cichlid gold, I bought some hikari carnivore, will see if that's more to his liking.

 

[aggressor09]

my spotted refused any pelleted or prepared foods.
I made my own mixture one time that it accepted very hesitantly.
Frozen smelt (silversides), shrimp, tilapia were my main foods.

 

[channarox]

pellets are great for gars.
varied diet is best.

 

[demjor19]

All of my gar will eat just about anything. Their staple diet is Hikari floating pellets and raw shrimp (with many other treats mixed in). Food never goes uneaten in my gar tank.

 

[GiangNOOO]

how do i get my young gars off live food? they dont seem to be interested in the pellets at all