Gars and rays? One has disappeared.

[Florencebigfish]

Ive torn the downstaris apart and found nothing. I thought the same thing.

 

[skynoch]

Your rays I'm sure wouldn't have finished a gar that big in a short time and there would also be remains. Could it have gotten into your fllter. This is causing your smell so it has to be rotting somewhere.

 

[Austin]

i could see the rays eating everything but the bony snout/skull of a 12" gar unless the rays are just massive.... such a conundrum....

 

[Florencebigfish]

I did a water change today and still didnt find any remains of a gar. I dont have but a couple of stuctures in the pond and i moved them and found nothing. She must have ate every bit of him.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Sounds possible but i wouldnt have been suprised if it had jumped.

 

[omojena]

do you have a cat/dog. that a more likely culprit after the gar jumped

 

[jwong1024]

wow sorry for you loss.

 

[Florencebigfish]

We do have a dog, but he only goes downstairs when we go down, doesn't have free run down there. There aren't too many places he could have squirmed to if he did jump out. We have looked everywhere in the family room down there. Only 2 pieces of furniture. We have a 10 inch Royal Clown Knife in there as well (he never bothers anyone though) and 2 Synodotis Decorus. The Synos would have easily cleaned up small parts, but wouldn't have messed with a large carcass. The RCK is capable of swallowing some pretty good size bites, but can't imagine him taking in the snout & skull of the gar...will probably remain an unsolved mystery....

 

[Pshmock]

Hmm... Odd. ive never heard of such a thing.

 

[Florencebigfish]

Well the update....I found the gars fins in the pond today. So we figured out where he went just like i thought he did. So the mystery is solved. Thanks for any insite.

FBF