Please ID this Gar

[ermgravy]

hikari cichlid gold pellet for the aro and gar and hikari carnivore sinking pellet for the rtc. Pellet train them now it will save an enormous amount of hassel and you will love the results....

vary the diet with prawns and white bait as all three will learn to take both as well, the rtc may take to floating pellet but its very unlikely the aro or the gar will go for sinking pellet once it hits the bottom....

 

[a7x_6661]

No offense, but i'm sure you're not speaking from personal experience, so where is this info coming from? Besides...how big/old was this fish when he first aquired it? Just because he had it 8 months doesn't necisarrily mean it's 8 months old.

Don't take this the wrong way either Neil (i'm really not trying to bust your balls)...i just dont like when people throw invalid information around.

i wasnt trying to be mean or anything. and the fish was probably a year old a while ago. i was just saying what i read from other posts. i see your point and all but i think its pretty accurate info that gators do average out at around 24" in their first year. unless there is something about the growth of gators i dont know about. BTW no offense taken. BTW this is neil not tasha if you havent figured that out. lol

 

[ermgravy]

kept at trop temps and feed well its likely a gator will exceed 24" in 12mnths... lots of keepers keep gators at trop temps hence high metabolism and fast growth... maybe if your lucky in cool temps a gator may stay only get 24" in first year but even lower temps they normally clear 24" inside a yr...

 

[KaraJo]

I would watch out for that aro too....He doesn't seem very big, and the gator gar will have a much faster growth rate, so he may try to make a meal of the aro in no time.

 

[city_of_evil6661]

kept at trop temps and feed well its likely a gator will exceed 24" in 12mnths... lots of keepers keep gators at trop temps hence high metabolism and fast growth... maybe if your lucky in cool temps a gator may stay only get 24" in first year but even lower temps they normally clear 24" inside a yr...

well i have never kept a gator before. but from what i have read, if they are kept under the right conditions (feeding, water chemistry, that kind of thing) they average out at around 24" in their first year. and yes im am quite sure that they can grow past 24". i was just saying that they average at around 24".