Gars aggresive to each other?
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Lepisosteus platyrhincus;4272754; said:
probably the least...and he didn't grow a ton either...he's been right at about 14-15" for several years now. he also started off gold when he was really young (good example of how gold gars will sometimes lose their color as they get older, but this usually happens within the first year).
most aggressive gar i currently have is definitely the Croc II, which also happens to be the biggest of the bunch...i don't have an exact measure on him now, but will have to check the data books from last year when we pulled all the fish to measure/weigh them--
--solomon
interesting. my largest gar(approx. 17") is by far teh most aggresssive one.
ps need gar den II pics
ps need gar den II pics
Nice, thanks!
Lots of great info from lots of good guys
I'll get em gars and post pics real soon...
damn baby gars are so beautiful!!
Lots of great info from lots of good guys
I'll get em gars and post pics real soon...
damn baby gars are so beautiful!!
I would agree with everyone else, but I still don't trust my bigger young gar with the smaller one after they ate the fourth smallest gar the second day I had them.
At the time, the smallest one was around 0.5" and the largest of the other three was 1.5" so I was surprised to wake up to only three gar. Also, all four were longnose gar (not sure if they normally are cannibalistic or not).
At the time, the smallest one was around 0.5" and the largest of the other three was 1.5" so I was surprised to wake up to only three gar. Also, all four were longnose gar (not sure if they normally are cannibalistic or not).
its pretty common for yoy gar to eat each other. its how they survive and natures way of weeding out the weak. i remember reading an article on how some labs are trying to introduce more gator gars in the wild and the number of gars that got eaten was astronmical
the gar aggression toward other gar species and conspecifics that we are talking about in the earlier portion of this thread doesn't necessarily apply to very young YOY fishes. at very early stages gars are highly prone toward cannibalism and will eat or attempt to eat gars that are only slightly smaller than themselves.
in these cases (very young YOY), gars should only be kept with those of nearly exact same size, and if one grows larger than the other, they should be separated until they are all at the 8-10" range...usually at this point the cannibalistic tendencies die down quite a bit.--
--solomon
in these cases (very young YOY), gars should only be kept with those of nearly exact same size, and if one grows larger than the other, they should be separated until they are all at the 8-10" range...usually at this point the cannibalistic tendencies die down quite a bit.--
--solomon
E_americanus;4276189; said:
Now ya tell me after I have lost 9 out of 10 baby 4" LNG's from my last order! Oh well, live and learn. Really, most were eaten by 5 - 6" bowfins. On a side note I did lose two of my three Florida Gars since my xfer to the deck pond. The smallest died a jumper, but the "middle sized" around 9 - 10" just disappeared. No way the smaller bowfins ate it.
My LNG was a fair eater at best in the 135G growout aquarium. It would eat meat from a stick or my hand, but rarely got live due to the oscars, Ven. Pike and Clown Knife.
It has become an insane monster now that it has 4' & 3' turnaround space in the deck pond. The size difference between the florida that "disappeared" (9-10") and the LNG (14") when placed outdoors did not seem that bad. Boy was I Wrong. I know more water volume and much larger turnaround space was a plus for my LNG, but I am going through around 200 feeder (100 twice) goldfish a week in there, and there are at least three day stretches of no live feeders each week. Rarely do the hundred last a full 24 hours. Good Grief, I think I may be on the way to a world record LNG!
