Hello Everyone

[HumanBean]

Hello MFKeepers! I just registered myself and would like to say hello!

I am a beginner and started almost a year ago with my 29 gallon freshwater aquarium. MFK forums helped me a lot to get myself familiar with this excellent hobby.

I have only one fish tank :
29 gallon (1 Bichir Delhezi , 1 Albino Bichir, 2 Corries, 2 Opaline Gouramies, 1 Striped Leporinus)

Planning to get a 75 Gallon and move everything to it in a month or so. Doing my homework before getting this tank so I can set it up and run it properly. Will add one Gar and 2 African Bush Fish( Leopard Ctenpoma) to my existing collection.

Thanks for all the usefull information and help

 

[jclyde13]

Welcome to the forum.

If you're talking about a true gar (family Lepisosteidae), that won't work too well with the rest of your stock list, or your tank size.

 

[HumanBean]

Thanks for the reply jclyde13, I am inclined towards spotted or Florida gar. Can you please guide me more in terms of what I need to do to make this setup work ? remove certain livestock or need bigger tank ?

 

[cnel124]

You need a 6x2x2 tank for those gars, which is 180 gallons. Gars will eat anything that can fit in their mouths, when it becomes bigger than your other fish they'll be gone.

 

[lunker65]

Yes with the larger tank
A minimum of two feet wide to keep them in there for life. They are not really agressive in my experience tward a fish that it knows it can't eat. However as stated above it will eat smaller fish. I have mine all pellet trained feeding them Hikari food sticks. In the long run it is cheaper and safer for your fish. No chance of introducing disease from infected feeders.

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