Shortnose gar update

[headbanger_jib]

too bad he took a long time to accept non live food he already looks quite thin, but if he is eating now then he should grow plump soon

 

[demjor19]

too bad he took a long time to accept non live food he already looks quite thin, but if he is eating now then he should grow plump soon

He wouldn't eat ANY food at all. I actually broke down a few times and offered live foods and he would not take them. This fish just decided it did not want to feed and that was it.

 

[city_of_evil6661]

Thanks! All fish are 100% from the Pacu incident.

thats good. every time i see a pacu now i have to just just walk away from the temptation of getting it from what the other 2 i had did to my longnose a while back. they were fin nippers. and almost completely took off one of my gars pelvic fins. i love pacu they are truely an amazing fish but i love gars way more and will never put them together again.

 

[CTU2fan]

Good news on that shorty Jordan, wow he was really thin. I didn't realize he hadn't eaten anything; I though he'd taken some feeder fish at least. Now that he's eating I hope some fat shorty pics will be coming

Glad to hear the pacu victims have recovered well.

 

[michael]

Im very hapopy to hear this!! I had the same problem with one of my cubans and I hope this guy turns out that way... My guy I got and didnt eat for 2 full months and was only about 5-6" and thin as a pencil. One day he just decided to eat and slowly ate more and more and now is a freakin pig!! He will be just fine I bet and is an amazing animal

 

[demjor19]

Im very hapopy to hear this!! I had the same problem with one of my cubans and I hope this guy turns out that way... My guy I got and didnt eat for 2 full months and was only about 5-6" and thin as a pencil. One day he just decided to eat and slowly ate more and more and now is a freakin pig!! He will be just fine I bet and is an amazing animal

thanks alot! and i'm sorry it took me so long to decide what i was doing with him.

this fish was actually past 4 months with no food consumption. i looked into when i got him and realized it was in the begining of May! He ate one or two small pieces of shrimp the day after i bought him and has had nothing since. I'm glad your cuban started eating too...it sux to watch them starve like that.

 

[demjor19]

Here are the latest pics of the Shorty! He is packing weight on much faster than i even expected!

 

[xander]

nice shorty!! great to hear everything is going well. my pacu was murdered by an unknown gar in the pond. har har.

 

[demjor19]

nice shorty!! great to hear everything is going well. my pacu was murdered by an unknown gar in the pond. har har.

Thanks. I am noticing an increase in activity and in his drive to feed every day. He's starting to get to the point where all i have to do is drop the shrimp in the tank and he hunts it on his own. Before i had to literally position the shrimp at the corner of his mouth in order for him to accept it. He's really making nice progress.

I'd like to see if we can correct his gill curl now.

 

[CTU2fan]

Good progress here, that's excellent. No all you need is a longnose...