Marble Lined Gar overeating!

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screaminleeman

Jack Dempsey
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I have completed the slow gradual quarantine of the three "Marble Lined Gar" and the "Ctenolucius hujeta" that I purchased from an vendor (TFD) MFK forum.

They are all now in a 55 gallon grow out tank together as juveniles around 5 inches. I am having a challenge with these "marble lines" (over-eating) that I did not have with my long nose or alligator gars. I have placed 30 rosey red minnows into the tank for three consecutive evenings and have had zero remain the following morning.

That is a heck of a pace that they are setting. I would need to seriously beef up my feeder quarantines to support that pace! I have tried to keep a supply of live feeders in their tank 24/7. Should I cut back the available food supply to them?

The three true gars are not eating non-live at this time!
 
i'd really like to say "no one here cares", hahaha but nah. you've got the wrong sub-forum mate. try the "other characins" forum.

ps: if you have a longnose and 2 gator gars in a 55gal aquarium with a hujeta, you're going to havve issues REAL soon. might i suggest you start a new thread in the other characins subforum and elaborate a little on the future plans for your current gars on this one?

hope you dont mind me asking;)
 
Why don't you just not put as many feeders in...? :confused:
 
xander;3917627; said:
i'd really like to say "no one here cares", hahaha but nah. you've got the wrong sub-forum mate. try the "other characins" forum.

ps: if you have a longnose and 2 gator gars in a 55gal aquarium with a hujeta, you're going to havve issues REAL soon. might i suggest you start a new thread in the other characins subforum and elaborate a little on the future plans for your current gars on this one?

hope you dont mind me asking;)
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It was going around in the forum the last couple weeks as to what the fish listed as "marble line gar" on TFD was in the way of species ID.

The legwork therefore has already been done and the verdict is that is a name that they applied to the species Lepisosteus platyrhincus or Florida Gar.

My Long Nose Gar is around 14" and is in a 180G with a 9" Tiger Oscar, two 4" Kirin Parrots, a 6" Pike cichlid sp. Ven. and a 11" Clown Knife.

My two alligator gars are around 6" now and eating most thawed food that I give them. I did eventually have agression between the baby gator gars and the larger LNG. I have had to seperate them from the LNG, and are housed in a 135G with a 7" Red Bay Snook, 10" Albino Channel Catfish, 5" Convict and 4" Jewel cichlid.

I know that the 55 will not house the three "florida" gars, and is only for a grow out.
 
Madding;3917652; said:
Why don't you just not put as many feeders in...? :confused:
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I have read on this forum that it is good to give baby/ extreme juvinile gar as much as they choose to eat until the reach at least 6". I was able to throw enough feeder fish (under 20) in for the LNG when it was a baby, and both gator gars as babies that would last for the better part of a week for the LNG and 3 days for the two baby gators w/ LNG.

These fish barely have looked like 90 fish in three days even "hit the spot".
 
screaminleeman;3917706; said:
It was going around in the forum the last couple weeks as to what the fish listed as "marble line gar" on TFD was in the way of species ID.

The legwork therefore has already been done and the verdict is that is a name that they applied to the species Lepisosteus platyrhincus or Florida Gar.

i remember now...can't always expect others to get it when you're making a joke online, since we can't really get the "intonation" with which you said it;)

My Long Nose Gar is around 14" and is in a 180G with a 9" Tiger Oscar, two 4" Kirin Parrots, a 6" Pike cichlid sp. Ven. and a 11" Clown Knife.

with all gar, i'd definately advise against those tankmates esp the oscar. with a longnose gar my point can never be stressed enough. i'd skip the pike cichlids too.

My two alligator gars are around 6" now and eating most thawed food that I give them. I did eventually have agression between the baby gator gars and the larger LNG. I have had to seperate them from the LNG, and are housed in a 135G with a 7" Red Bay Snook, 10" Albino Channel Catfish, 5" Convict and 4" Jewel cichlid.

basically if u didn't already know, the 2 gators are going to eat almost everything in that tank, and then move on to your other fish in the 180gal. unless of course you're planning to house them seperately asap.

I know that the 55 will not house the three "florida" gars, and is only for a grow out.
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in response to the original question, i wouldn't worry about them being overfed at least till they're around 6-8". as long as the water params are clear, the gars should be eating everyday. you can raise the temp and add some salt if you're worried about overfeeding.
 
It looks like I'll have to break out another stock bin for additional quaranteen room to be able to supply enough minnows. Hopefully they will start to take thawed soon, before having to resort to small goldfish as feeders!
 
I think I may have the same fish, can you send a pic, or can someone send a pic of the Marble Gar??
 
Thanks, I bought a fish at the LFS that was labeld "marble Gar" but have since been told that it's not actually a gar. He looks like a gar, is about 4 inches right now, and has hell of an apepitite. Super skinny, but eats alot.
 
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