So I brought home my new Gar yesterday and with him 8 feeder guppies and a ghost shrimp my lfs threw in. I properly put them in the temporary 90 gallon tank with my bellycrawler. He was doing great and wasn't interested in the guppies... I woke up this morning and all 8 guppies were gone and the shrimp! Was this just my gar doing this? do I feed him this much daily. should he always have access to guppies in the tank with him?
Guppies Gone!
- Thread starter JNason11
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He should always have access to guppies or at least not go more then a day or 2 w/out access.. and I'm betting your bellycrawler ate everything tbh. I know my dwarf pike (a proteus) will devour any live foods that hit her tank ( and also beat up anything I put in the tank with her). I would suggest also reading the sticky about gar.. mainly in reguards to tank size. at 4-5" a 90 gallon is a dangerous tank... yes it's to big atm. Gar will rocket across a larger tank and break their backs, particularly young skittish fish. I would reccomend moving him to a 20L or similar footprint until he grows abit 8"+. Then the 90 will make a nice home for him for the next year or 2.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?419773-Proper-husbandry-for-your-gar
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