Help! my gar will not eat
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Move the gar into another tank. I woulden't eat if I was in there with all those other fish.
200 feeders? I am guessing 5cm? try something a good 10cm in size if not bigger. even though you have a big tank it dosen't look big enough for all the fish you have. Avalible room might be a reason why it wont eat.
200 feeders? I am guessing 5cm? try something a good 10cm in size if not bigger. even though you have a big tank it dosen't look big enough for all the fish you have. Avalible room might be a reason why it wont eat.
its a longnose gar Not an alligator gar just to clear that up and he was eating feeders for me while i had him
littlevic34;2826906; said:
I knew that Fish looked Familiar!! That fish has to be stressed big time! the number of times its been moved around. Probably different water parameters everytime, feeding routines, tankmates and now being force fed.
LOL That was suppose to be mine! but seriously the store I first saw him at got him in Nov, then you bought him in Dec then you sold/gave him to bigrich in Jan. 4 moves in 4 months to a different environment each time has to be a lot of stress on it.
my gars are just fine, with huge appetite though, lol, I did bother them everyday, but only just to do something with the water,
I think you should really get another tank for your gars, and seperate them.
and dude, stop touching your gar, they'll become really stressful,
make a calmer environment for your gars, besides your light are just too bright, and you also hv white gravels at the bottom, which are so reflecting the amount of the light back to the fish.
I think you should really get another tank for your gars, and seperate them.
and dude, stop touching your gar, they'll become really stressful,
make a calmer environment for your gars, besides your light are just too bright, and you also hv white gravels at the bottom, which are so reflecting the amount of the light back to the fish.
hi actually there is only 2 40 watt bulbs up in the canopy, they are coralife colormax bulbs and it really is not that bright, the pic came out looking very bright in the picture but trust me it is no way that bright, the gravel look beige or offwhite, its just the way the camera took the pic, but i will try to put it in a seperate dark tank by itself for a while, and see how that goes,
but you guys all are freaking out about the stress, let me explain a little, its not like the fish fights and thrashes, it just lays there i reach in grab him in front of the middle of him he dont try to swim or mthing, i take a paintstir stick and put it under the tip of his nose, it is really easy to open his mouth, again her does not move, i place a piece of shrimp in his mouth and use the pencil eraser to slide it into his gill section (not actually down his throat) and then i place him back under water where he swallows the shrimp, i then let him go, also he is very well slime coated, its not like im wiping away his slime coat, hes much better now then when i got him, he just dont go after food on his own, also he stays side by side with the other gar, like there buddies or something, and originally i had asked the guy i got him from what he was eating and he told me feeders, but it never ate from the day it got here,
anyways i will transfer him into a holding tub i have its 300 gallon or so, and put some feeders in there and see what happens, thanks all for the advice, i just want him to live, im not into holding my fish, trust me
thanks
tracy
but you guys all are freaking out about the stress, let me explain a little, its not like the fish fights and thrashes, it just lays there i reach in grab him in front of the middle of him he dont try to swim or mthing, i take a paintstir stick and put it under the tip of his nose, it is really easy to open his mouth, again her does not move, i place a piece of shrimp in his mouth and use the pencil eraser to slide it into his gill section (not actually down his throat) and then i place him back under water where he swallows the shrimp, i then let him go, also he is very well slime coated, its not like im wiping away his slime coat, hes much better now then when i got him, he just dont go after food on his own, also he stays side by side with the other gar, like there buddies or something, and originally i had asked the guy i got him from what he was eating and he told me feeders, but it never ate from the day it got here,
anyways i will transfer him into a holding tub i have its 300 gallon or so, and put some feeders in there and see what happens, thanks all for the advice, i just want him to live, im not into holding my fish, trust me
thanks
tracy
also one other thing you guys are looking past, i grew up in florida and the canals are filled with gars, people down there hate them when there fishing, gars are very hardy, i once saw a old man take a gar off of his line and throw it in the weeds, not back in the canal. i asked him why and he said they are garbage fish, well when he left i went over to the edge of the weeds where he threw it, and it was still alive after 1/2 hour out of the water, being the little kid i was i was scared to touch it but i did use my foot to push it back into the canal where it swam away, so its my experiance that gars are very hardy,
yes they are very hardy and i have had the smae problem as you. However i did not make mine eat and he did eventually die of starvation but i was told that he was fine if he had good coloration. however he obviously was not fine and so i think it is ine that you feed him as long he is not noticably bothered by it
