check out my youtube channel of my 90 gal tank used to house the fish in the vid but now has a red devilxflowerhron pair http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperGOURAMI?feature=mhum
my 22" florida
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supergourami;4852962; said:
not sure why this is relevant to the OP's thread other than your vid sort of has a gar in the background while the camera focuses on cichlids...
Zfishies;4852944; said:whtta beast, does he create a big bioload? i hve 2 in my pond right nowi think ill hav to buy another filter with 10koi, 2 gars and 4 walking catfish ahhh am scared.... i may need a nothher filter to UGHHH
thanx, it puts out average bioload as any large pred would.
E_americanus;4853048; said:
i have to agree.
would you guys concider this a 'heathly' or a 'fatty' gar?
sbuse;4856034; said:
Truthfully, with no disrespect meant, I think she's overweight. A little thinner, and in my eyes, she would be a nice healthy looking gar. With that being said, size does not dictate health. She just looks kinda swollen in places where gars normally aren't swollen.
Piscine;4857430; said:
i wouldn't have asked if i wasn't ready to hear that she's a fatty. i was kinda thinking that it was overweight. i have been thinking of reducing the feedings for the tank to once every 2-3 days. i currently run everyday or every other day right now.
sbuse;4859008; said:
i wouldn't say the fish looks different in different places than other thick captive gars. captive gars generally tend to be "overweight" or at least have higher fat content than wild gars because they are generally getting excessive food and little exercise (the latter is just a part of captivity...with gars we can't really ever match the activity -and environmental pressures- they experience in the wild).
i would definitely recommend reduction of feeding though...at that size, the fish likely won't grow appreciably bigger, and it is just accumulating fat bodies. don't be alarmed though, as most of the gars on this forum fall into that category, at least the older gars...the "slimmer" gars we tend to see are YOY or yearling fish, as most people are posting pics when they first get their new gars (and LFS generally carry YOY and yearlings).
personally, i only feed my big gars 1-2x per week and they are just fine. sometimes i have to throw a small extra feeding in every now and then to keep the Croc II from beating on tankmates, but this has calmed down over the past few years. that being said, none of my gars are starving, they are all still generally thick and all are healthy, but they surely have fat deposits like most captive gars (compared to wild gars).
cutting the feedings down is recommended, and it definitely won't cause your gar to starve. best of luck, and great specimen--
--solomon
