Melting Face?

[Dubeckyj]

I forgot about anchovies. Maybe I'll order them as a pizza topping and just pick them off and throw them in?

I feed my smaller gars rosies. I think it would take a lot of them to fill up two ~9" gars, but variety is the spice of life.

 

[Dubeckyj]

I'm curious. If the cause is nutrition, that's fine. I'll work something out. But what exactly is it? Has it been studied?

 

[isde02]

I bought a shortnose gar that had this erosion. I couldn't save him, but I hope for the best in your case.

 

[HungDang]

I forgot about anchovies. Maybe I'll order them as a pizza topping and just pick them off and throw them in?

I feed my smaller gars rosies. I think it would take a lot of them to fill up two ~9" gars, but variety is the spice of life.

what?

 

[Dubeckyj]

what?

what?


Now, I have TetraCichlid Jumbo Sticks which are ~20mm long and ~5mm in diameter, floating, orange, and smell like powerbait & dog kibble. They'ew guaranteed 47% crude protein, 7% crude fat, 4% crude fiber, and some other crudes. It's made with shrimp meal, krill, fish meal, and algae meal. I also have Nutrafin MAX (the capitals are important) which are ~15mm long and ~3mm in diameter, floating, brown, and smell faintly of dog kibble. It's guaranteed 45% protein, 10% fat, 1.3% fiber, and 9% ash. Also, it's guaranteed 20% earthworm and 20% krill, plus everything above in addition to squid meal and salmon oil.

My TSN loves the cichlid sticks. The FLG bites down on them now but lets them go and ignores them. The gator bit one once and ignored them since. Nobody eats the nutrafin. The TSN will eat sand if it looks particularly appetizing, but doesn't register the nutrafin as food.

I saw a bag of hikari massivore delight at the LFS for $45. It was smaller than the $12 bag of algae wafers I buy my other fish. Is this the product I've been hearing about? They're sinking pellets, which I don't believe my gars will pick up off the substrate.

 

[HungDang]

I was talking about those anchovies on pizza, you can go to some Asian market near you and buy those frozen anchovy!

 

[Dubeckyj]

True, but I like the prospect of sharing a pizza with my splashy friends.

 

[Dubeckyj]

Fixed.

I did some research, and there's a study that linked HLLE and activated carbon in marine fish.

http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/content/activated-carbon-hlle-smoking-gun-found

I figured this may be applicable to freshwater as well, since it could be agitation. I took the carbon out of the filter, did a bunch of big water changes over a few days, and wrapped the filter inlet with floss to sort out any remaining particles. A week later, he's noticeably on the mend.