Nutritional deficiency

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My Florida Gar only eats live feeders, but not the same species, sometimes its Rosey Reds, a different type but similar to a Rosey Red, Baby Kois and Tilapias. I'm not sure if he has had any other, I remember him eating my Plakat Betta.

Anyway, my question is..is this unhealthy for my Gar? To only have live feeders but nothing else? I have no idea how I am going to make him eat something else, he ignores it all.

Hmm...:irked:
 
It's unhealthy for most animals to eat only one food. Your gar will also eat crickets, floating aro sticks, mealworms, tadpoles and frogs, etc.

At the very least, you should be gut-loading the feeders prior to offering them to the gar so he can indirectly receive a more nutritious meal.
 
oddballs right. single food diets are not good for any animal and he will eat almost anything you put in front of him. it may seem cruel, but just stop offering live feeders. go a few days with no food. then start offering other types of foods...fish fillet, market shrimp, crickets, hikari sticks, etc. it may take more than a week, but he will come around. i never thought my florida would start eating foods other than feeders, but after putting forth an honest effort, he is now eating all of the above foods and much more!
good luck!
 
Aside from a varied diet you might want to think about quarnt. your feeders. Along with starvation, garlic extract might also help induce your gar to feed on something else.
 
I have starved him and tried mealworms, chunks of chicken meat and floating sticks....due to hunger he would go to have a look and that's about it and he would swim away from it.

Thanks for the replies, I will try crickets...I never wanted to try a frog..hmm..and they don't have tadpoles here. I will see what I can do. I begin to notice that my Gar's colouration is gone pale at certain parts of his bodies, I am not sure if it's the usual growth transformation as he is exceeding a foot or is it due to the same old feeders.

When I feed him tilapias, the tilapias would would eat pellets. I am sure he can look far greater and intense. I will do my best. Thanks again for the replies.:)
 
I just tried Crickets for the first time and I could not believe myself that he ate! he ate at least three. He has been hungry, but I'm not sure he forced himself to...he had problems aiming properly but he ate anyway. Unbelievable...it was a miracle to see him eating something that isn't feeder fish! What a great start!:headbang2
 
awsome! try market shrimp...mine loves them, they are healthy, fairly cheep, and filling. also try some floating pellets (hikarii) mine loves them too.
 
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