my new, 7-inch, florida gar was purchased tuesday and has not eaten one iota if food. i've offered freeze-dried krill, froze blood worms, sinking shrimp pellets, freeze-dried tubifix worms, sinking chiclid pellets and floating arowana diet pellets. I feed these foods to the other inhabitants of the tank. it's a predatory community tank. i've heard many cases of newly accquired gar not eating for almost a week. any suggestions?
new florida gar
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just pack him full of feeders. give it time before you try prepared. just give feeders and toss in some prepared now and then. eventually he will try it. my shortnose gar just now try him first shrimp. it was a whole shrimp so he couldnt eat it but he tryd it! the shrimp was for the nearly 17" florida
no problem...i am still trying to get my 12" florida to take shrimp and stuff...not working yet...
My gar wouldn't eat for a week but the LFS had him eating worms. That was about a week and a half ago. About 4 days ago he started eating shrimp and talapia, and he occasionally grabs a massivore pellet. Now he stuffs himself. Just give it time.
Don't try feeders then you'll have to start all over again.
Don't try feeders then you'll have to start all over again.
vaine111;3465874; said:
Giving it feeders is much more preferable than letting it starve. If it won't take any kind of prepared food with 7 days, I say dump in feeders and let him stuff himself. Sometimes the combination of moving to a new tank and attempting to change their diet will make them not eat. You have to get them comfortable and trusting/recognizing you as the provider of food before some will take anything besides live food.
vaine111;3465874; said:
i have a a bag of frozen tilapia that my wife and I eat. i'm wanting to try tilapia on my fish. what's the best way to prepare tilapia for consumption by my fish? i'm assuming you thaw it out and cut it in small pieces and drop them into the tank. it is that simple?