feeding wise, my fl/sp used 2 get out competed 4 food all the time but since i got it on floating pellets its been no problem... May work if u have problems...
new to gars
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thanks for all your help. i guess i will just have to wait and get the fish before i figure out if there is anything i need to do about the feeding, but worst case a divider shouldnt be hard to do. as far as the cats, i have decided on a giraffe catfish and a tiger striped catfish. what would be a good size to get the gar? i want to try and get everything pretty small to watch them grow and have them used to each other, i will be getting everything at once.
hammy and waf;1669439; said:
the growth rates of all those fishes differ quite a bit, so if you get them all at once and at a small size, you'll likely have fewer fish when they are larger because they will eat each other as they grow. gar have a very fast initial growth rate (no matter what the species) and will attempt (or succeed) to eat fishes that may barely fit into their mouths.
i would suggest a more step-wise approach to the fishes that you add. i've never kept pbass, but i'm sure you can look up the necessary info on those fish. if i were you and wanted to keep all those fishes, i would get the gar first, let it grow up (if you want to watch it grow, and it will do so quickly), then add a catfish (appropriate species) at a size about the same as the gar (which would hopefully be about 10-12" by then). black arows also grow quickly, and it's somewhat of a random chance whether they will get along well with the gar(s) or not. IME the black arows i have kept got along just fine, however, each individual fish is different.
hope this helps and gives you some new issues to consider--
--solomon
