Raising peaceful gar

[AR577]

The petshop by me has gator gars that are about 1in. I want to buy it but because of it's size I would have to keep it in some of my smaller tanks until it goes into the pond.

I was thinking of keeping it in a breeders net in one of my tanks for a while l while only feeding it frozen. Hoping it won't look at the other fish as a food source when it is released.

How does my plan to reduce the chances of the gar eating my other fish?

 

[HumanBean]

How can you change the nature of a predatory fish ?

In guess keep it well fed but how that's need thinking

 

[Jakob]

Crappy plan, only because there is no good plan for what you're trying to do.
Only thing you can do is keep it well fed.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

won't work. sooner or later the gar is going to try and eat or kill the others.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

you might as well not even look at a gator gar. they grow extremely fast so it would be in your pond within a year I would guess. depending on how well you take care of it that is.

 

[fungdes1]

I've tried your method, and then once I put my gar into my pond, my 4 inches long clown knife was gone ...

 

[shookONES]

Good luck. I love gars but have had so many bad experiences with them that I'm done risking them in community tanks.