Gars on pellets

[jwowoski]

Is there any way of getting a gar on pellets?


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[TexanMFKer]

My gator ate turtle food sticks.
I have to starve him for a few days though...
All my gars in the past has also

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[joel]

Yes. Stop feeding other food sources and try a variety of pellets. I had 2 long nose that only ate hikari pellets


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[cnel124]

Feed them something similar to the pellet feeding. For example, if you are feeding sinking pellets try frozen (sinking) shrimp first or sinking fish (if there's any other kind&#8230. Once they get used to eating food in that way they'll eventually take pellets, just keep reintroducing the pellets and they should take them one day.

You can try moving the pellets and the gars could chase them. I had an alligator gar which ate goldfish pellets on the surface of the water when my powerhead blew the pellets around, he treated them like any other fish.

The type of gar makes a difference in my opinion, some are more accepting than others. Try different methods if the gar won't accept a certain method, eventually they'll take them. I do not believe in the starving method, overall reintroduction of new foods is the best way to get them to eat new foods.

 

[DatnoidEd]

I got a Florida last month and like posted above just starve him until he takes the pellets. If he's healthy he'll eventually eat what's offered. Mine is now also taking cocktail shrimp from my hand.


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[baji]

Get a trainer fish, buy a big fish tat eats only pellets, and stop feeding ur gar other foods, ur gar will learn to eat pellets from tat fish, when it is hungry...

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[TexanMFKer]

All my gars were gators and turtle sticks and garmarus shrimp seems to do the trick

 

[lunker65]

I trained mine a few months ago to eat the hikari food sticks. they take them by the mouth full now. it took about a week or so to figure it out. but on the other hand, it took my bullhead almost two months to figure it out.

 

[Ninjabadger]

My Florida Gar would take pellets quite happily, took a bit of training but he was usually the first to the top.

 

[jpcampbell123]

my floridas would eat pellets and krill some of my longnose would eat them too even had one longnose that loved night crawler chunks. i used sinking pellets with mine they learned to take them off the bottom.