florida gar spawning

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John2708

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hi, guys and girls so I posted recently that I managed to spawn my Florida gar here in the UK so fare iv managed to hatch out 4 fry I haven't checked the pond they were spawned in but I'm guessing there will be more in there. the ones I hatched out were in a quarantine tank I wasn't prepared for this spawning and now I know how to do it ill be better prepared next time I am making a video diary which ill post on my youtube channel once it's done if anyone is interested. couldn't find any info online for breeding these guys and raising the fry has anyone done this who can share some tips with me I'm assuming I can feed them baby brine shrimp once the eggs sacks are gone

thanks for any advice given
 
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John2708 said:
I'm not sure it could be goldfish or koi I'll raise it up and see once it's big enough I can stick it with the 1000 koi fry I'm currently raising
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Nice, sounds like you got yourself a pretty good breeding setup already. Any specific kind of goldfish/koi ya breed? Or is it just a "let nature do its thing" kind of set up?
 
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John2708 said:
I'm not sure it could be goldfish or koi I'll raise it up and see once it's big enough I can stick it with the 1000 koi fry I'm currently raising
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The list of koi is endless but to name a few snake kohahku benea I also breed cobra snake heads. Gar have always been my number one favourite fish and iv been told they can't be bred here in the uk so I'm very happy that I have achieved it my next goal is to do a controlled breeding so I can have a better hatch rate
 
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John2708 said:
The list of koi is endless but to name a few snake kohahku benea I also breed cobra snake heads. Gar have always been my number one favourite fish and iv been told they can't be bred here in the uk so I'm very happy that I have achieved it my next goal is to do a controlled breeding so I can have a better hatch rate
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Sounds like a fun project ya got there. Lol wish I was more well versed in koi types, maybe then I'd understand those names hahaha. I cam atleast identify some goldfish types but koi go way over my head. I only ever had 1 koi but I made the rookie mistake of adding it to the cichlid tank and well you can just as well guess how that all went. I'm just glad it was one of the cheap $20 lfs variety rather then one of the pure bred strains that cost $100s-$1000s.
 
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