Native food for a Gar?

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ColeFishing said:
honestly, i us a castnet with 3/16 inch mesh (illegal) and catch small mimnows and creekchubs also very young bluegill .25-.5" long. Also, i just just bought a Florida gar last week and he is 12" but they are very different from spotted gar.
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what different?
 
Live feeding is ok but all run the risk of diseases at some point. Also feeders do not have a great nutritional factor. However feeding you gar native food will not hurt it. I think the best diet for your gar would be a mix of live and cut bait or commercial fish food, 20%, 80% respectively. This will insure that your gar will have proper nutrition. There are many threads in the forum about weaning gar off of live feeders, just use the "search" option.
 
I QT my feeders as much as possible and gut-load them with a high quality flake, but I also worm my gar every 6 monthes or so as a percaution.
 
MonsterMinis said:
I QT my feeders as much as possible and gut-load them with a high quality flake, but I also worm my gar every 6 monthes or so as a percaution.
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De-worming or Parasiting every 6 months is a seriously bad idea, Un-needed and full of potential issues and problems.
 
JNason11 said:
So I am about to purchase a Florida gar and I have been reading that young gars always need food at hand. I really don't want to feed guppies or anything from the store because of diseases and I was wondering if I could feed him shiners, smelts, crayfish etc native to the North East region? Do these carry diseases often? Do I quarantine them if I trap them from a lake? because they are in freezing cold temps and in my tank its 76 F I don't know if that will effect my gar... Please provide Info!!
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In general feeding your fish species caught straight from the wild is far far far better than "feeders" from the LFS.. This is typically what I do when I feed live feeds. There is risk with anything but in the case of immediately feeding wild-caught prey items the risk is far lower than with any LFS obtained item.
 
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