GAR TANKMATES

[wrenniboy]

what would be good tankmates for alligator gars?

 

[StripeGirl]

i have mine with castexi rays,long nose gars,silver arowanas,and a huge fire eel.

 

[Malawi-]

Whatever that wont harass them, or wont fit in their mouth!

 

[E_americanus]

what would be good tankmates for alligator gars?

long term in the home aquaria? nothing. short term...other gars of similar or larger size. they will generally eventually outgrow 95% of the usual predatory tankmates and attack, maim, eat, or kill them in most cases. gators are not ideal tankmate fish--
--solomon

 

[wrenniboy]

thanks guys

 

[channarox]

other gators will work usually.
nothing else.

 

[xander]

other gators will work usually.
nothing else.

what about other large fish? arapima, some cats are able to co-exist with large gator gar

 

[channarox]

what about other large fish? arapima, some cats are able to co-exist with large gator gar

yes,its been done many times.
but ive seen it go wrong on a few occasions.

 

[xander]

it was a rethorical qn. of course i know they work. i was only questioning your statement saying that gator gars can only be kept w other gator gars

 

[ctoychik]

3 gars, 3 paimas 2 RTCs - so far so good. Most of the tank mate killing is conducted by RTC.

Gar and RTC have one silver aro under their belt each. RTC also have an O and a paima to add to tally. But now that paimas are growing fast, gar are no match for them during feeding (except for oversized things - paimas are wimps when it comes to large food - got a horror story of LFS paima chocking to death on snakehead - sheesh).

PS: not sure who killed the three red bellied pacus ... still got two left in the sump ...don't know what to do with them ... test the water in the new aquarium?