pellets ? Froozen foods?

[phantoms]

my gar would eat thawed out frog legs and thawed out bluegill pieces right off the bottom. took about a 8 months to get to that point though. well, before 8 months i just never tried lol. i think it just took him that long to be completely comfortable in the tank. once i moved him to a bigger tank he no longer did this. of course after being in the larger tank for only a month he jumped out. but anyways, yeah try frog legs from your seafood place. the bluegills i was just catching at the lake near me and freezing them.

 

[TLkmDN]

i taught my baby gars to eat food sticks and pellets..now they eat absolutely anything and are HUGEEEEE pellets r the best diet cause it means they will eat bascally anything in the future... good luck takes about 2 weeks btw...

 

[demjor19]

i taught my baby gars to eat food sticks and pellets..now they eat absolutely anything and are HUGEEEEE pellets r the best diet cause it means they will eat bascally anything in the future... good luck takes about 2 weeks btw...

every fish takes a different amount of time to make the transition. i have had them take anywhere from months to hours, before they would start eating prepared foods.

 

[pwmin]

I will just share my limited experience because it seems different than anyone else's so far. My F/S ate tilapia chunks from the bottom right away. It took a little, but not much at all, before it started eating sinking pellets and market shrimp pieces. It just started eating food as it was sinking, but still hasn't eaten from the top, but I don't feed floating foods much at all.

 

[justink]

My gar is 6" long right now, he will only eat the live. how do i get him on frozen foods or pellets? it is not good to feed them only live feeders right?

i would never consider a feeding stick unless youve owned the gar for a long time and it is comfortable with its surroundings and is comfortable with you... every single fish has a different adaptation.. some gars will start taking dead food at 4" while others may only take feeders till 7" just lack the amount of feeders dont give him constant food. just enough to keep him stable. offer pellets and frozen daily in small amounts and let him know thats food. hell get used to it and start taking it..

 

[demjor19]

i would never consider a feeding stick unless youve owned the gar for a long time and it is comfortable with its surroundings and is comfortable with you... every single fish has a different adaptation.. some gars will start taking dead food at 4" while others may only take feeders till 7" just lack the amount of feeders dont give him constant food. just enough to keep him stable. offer pellets and frozen daily in small amounts and let him know thats food. hell get used to it and start taking it..

this is how i have converted just about evey one of my gar over from live foods to prepared foods. these gar have been anything from a 5" Longnose gar up to a 17" florida/spotted gar and some of them i have only owned for a matter of hours before having success using this method.

what would it hurt to try a feeding stick? i do agree that this wont work for every gar, but in my experience (which is quite a bit) it has worked on all, but one gar.

 

[justink]

this is how i have converted just about evey one of my gar over from live foods to prepared foods. these gar have been anything from a 5" Longnose gar up to a 17" florida/spotted gar and some of them i have only owned for a matter of hours before having success using this method.

what would it hurt to try a feeding stick? i do agree that this wont work for every gar, but in my experience (which is quite a bit) it has worked on all, but one gar.

maybe youve been lucky with yours but with fish in general you should not stick a metal stick with food on it infront of a fish thats just been set into a tank. there is enough stress as it is acclimating to the tank and there should be some amount of waiting period before you start testing things like a feeding stick. because gars are relitively top level swimmers there should be no reason to put a stick in the tank just use floating foods that are an easy catch for the gars. what kinds of feeding sticks do u use? im possibly interested in trying it for some of my bottom level fish :]

 

[demjor19]

maybe youve been lucky with yours but with fish in general you should not stick a metal stick with food on it infront of a fish thats just been set into a tank. there is enough stress as it is acclimating to the tank and there should be some amount of waiting period before you start testing things like a feeding stick. because gars are relitively top level swimmers there should be no reason to put a stick in the tank just use floating foods that are an easy catch for the gars. what kinds of feeding sticks do u use? im possibly interested in trying it for some of my bottom level fish :]

been lucky? with over a dozen gar and 4-5 different species? also most gar arent really as much of a top water fish as people think. sure they spend a lot of time at the surface, but i wouldn't go far enough to call it a majority.

back on topic...i use a 1/16" bass wood dowell rod about 2' in length. the ONLY fish that ever seemed to mind it, is my shortnose i'm currently working with and even he ate a few pieces off of it. again...no harm can be done by at least trying this method. if the fish doesn't like it, then the fish doesnt like it...try something else.

 

[xander]

gar arent really as much of a top water fish as people think.

really? they spend majority of their time there it seems

 

[CTU2fan]

The one I had previously did, but the one I've got now is rarely near the surface unless it's feeding time. Otherwise I'd say he spends much more time in the bottom 2/3 of the tank.