I'm Having Second Thoughts...
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one jag. i grew 3 up to find the nicest one. one was killed and the other i got rid of. i do have a pike and a texas in there. both are even less aggressive than the jag. the texas is a total softy, but I am trying to sell it.xander13;1792586; said:
the gar didn't eat last night, but is still looking fine this morning. Hopefully, they weren't just feeding it feeders at the LFS, but they probably were. I forgot to ask them what it was eating as usual
What have you tried feeding it? Mine was on all feeders when I got it (rehome) and he nosed at pellets but took freezedried krill on my first try.
Last night, I fed some cut up market shrimp, FD krill, imitation crab, cichlid bio-gold pellets and sinking pellets. I only have a moonlight on one side of the tank, so maybe it ate after lights out and I couldn't see, IDK. Tonight is my night to skip feeding, so I'll try some tilapia and FD krill on Friday.Hopefully, it's completely settled by then and hungry enough that it will eat. I don't wanna have to go through another long drawn out process of getting another fish off of live, but it shouldn't be as hard as my tat was.CTU2fan;1792740; said:
It shouldn't be hard I wouldn't think. I didn't need to do any of the conversion techniques like feeding sticks and drop-feeding, when he spotted/smelled the krill he went right for it. Have you got any really aggressive feeders in your tank? You might find they're getting fat before the gar gets his fill for awhile, but once he gets on a routine he'll dig right in.
With their growth rate at this size, you would think that they would be hungry enough to not be so picky, but this is my first gar. The jag is the only aggressive feeder but once it stuffs its mouth, it's no problem. The jag doesn't eat the krill, though, so that will help.CTU2fan;1793155; said:
