Gars easy to get off live?
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I trained my FL and tropical gars onto aro sticks using a supplemental method. I started them on live minnows, dropped one at a time, in the same spot at each feeding. After several days, I started alternating dropping a minnow, then dropping a piece of krill or an aro stick. Within a week they were all snapping at, and eating, the krill and aro sticks.
Just a note: Do not starve any gar under 12 inches for any reason. Use the technique that Oddball described it works every time. It is also very common for Gars to immediately take prepared and frozen foods right out.
Polypterus;825837; said:
my gar was in the 15-16 in range and it only took several days to be effective. i forgot to include size being a factor. i tried oddballs method on my fish and it didnt work. however it has worked on some other fish that i have had though.
It took about a month but my gar eats any type of stick cichlid food you throw in his tank. He just started eating Hikari Gold pellets one day. I don't know if he learned from watching the other fish in the tank.
mine was taking frozen food from about 6-7inches. just by droping the food in the tank near her face.
Mine got on prepared pretty quickly.. They now alternate their diet with one of the small fish I still have in the tank in between prepared meals...