A quick video I shot earlier. I would not recommend others try this. As you can see the gars aim isn't always the best and some get pretty close to my hand.
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Hand Feeding Video
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Nice video, Kevin!
I always hand fed my first Florida gar and the little longnose gar that I used to have. It seemed to be the only way to get the longnose gar to eat anything other than feeders at the time, but, from what I understand, it has since moved on to eating any food no matter how its presented.
I always hand fed my first Florida gar and the little longnose gar that I used to have. It seemed to be the only way to get the longnose gar to eat anything other than feeders at the time, but, from what I understand, it has since moved on to eating any food no matter how its presented.
kwstas_original;5055922; said:Very nice!!
Where do you keep them?
Is that a pond?
I have an indoor pond roughly 600 gallons that they are in for now, until their next upgrade.
Hao;5056285; said:Very nice Gators! I've handfed my Floridas, but never my Tropical, maybe I should try.Thanks for the motivation.
Thanks Hao. I try to handfeed all my gars. At the very least I find they tend to be a little more relazed around me. If your going to start handfeeding watch out for the other fish. Id expect your arows to be all over the fish. And it's the one you aren't paying attention to that might get ya. That's how one of my cubans got me the other day.
Wiggles92;5056397; said:
Such different experiences with longnoses. Mine has decideed to eat pretty much anything and everything, and is consistently the first to the food. I agree though that handfeeding can be used to get gars off feeders.
