Florida gar can't stop floating?

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CitizenSnips

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Hey my 9'' Florida Gar had 10 minnows yesterday and ate until he was fat! He was then very docile for the rest of the day being stuffed with food.

Today I noticed that he's staying at the top of the tank and seems to be wriggling and flipping out every so often. He's breathing fine, taking air from the surface normally but I caught him spinning his body at the surface going upside down and wriggling again. Is he trying to digest the huge meal? Or regurgitate it?

Maybe there is air trapped in him from eating so much or so fast?

Anyone have any experience with this sort of situation after feeding a big meal to a gar? I don't want to lose him I hope he just digests it and gets back to normal.
 
do you have a video of this might be able to help a little more a picture might do more as well.
 
He may be a little pooped out from such a big meal and is digesting it.

I don't think it's a swim bladder problem because he wouldn't be able to know up from down. In all the cases I've seen they usually float on their back or side and swimming turns into an act of gymnastics with them. It sounds like he is doing it on his own will...

He probably just doesn't feel like swimming much with a full belly, just like people eating till their bloated at Chinese then not wanting to get up and go to the car

Maybe he has a case of duh duh duh.... DIARRHEA
 
Mustave eaten so much he burst his own swimm bladder because he started nosediving and spinning like a top on his face, swimming wildly and thrashing about after being stuck on the surface wobbling back and forth all day and died doing a headstand. ;( I can't believe it, it was so healthy until it ate all those minnows!

This is a real warning Gars WILL eat themselves to death! :(
 
Gars will not eat themselves to death. I have allowed gars to choice feed while maintaining a couple hundred feeders in the tank with them. The will stop when they are full.

Being unable to stay upright and spinning sounds more like the gar had a broken back.
 
I am not sure this is as normal as people keep saying? If the gar is not swimming properly (spinning) and "flipping out" then it sounds like nervous system/spine may have taken a hit.

Is it acting better now?
 
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