Success!! FL finally off live!

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CrazyJ

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It has been a long battle, but I finally succeeded. After eating feeders for over five months, and then crickets only for another months, I have him off of live. I think the crickets helped by opening up his mind to other foods.... maybe. After eating crickets he was starting to bite things off the surface, pellets and what not, but never swallowed anything.

Was cooking salmon for dinner the other night and I saved some of the trimmings for him. Last night he ate one piece, and then today he ate two more chunks. It might have been the orange color that made him think goldfish. But after biting he would always spit anything that wasn't alive out, not this time though.

Now I just need to get him onto something that is cheaper than salmon, thats for me, not him. Hopefully switching to a white meat won't be a problem with him, I can get cheap prawns and basa fillets heres.

Anyhow, been working at this for a while and just wanted to share my success story with everyone. Now hopefully my Green Aro will start eating something other than crickets, he will have no choice though because my cat has been finding the occasional cricket around the house and the Lady isn't liking this. (Wimp) So it is either stave or start eating something else, not like he doesn't have lots of options.
 
Congrats , well done, i also got a gar who does not want to eat any thing else apart for live fish, going to try the crickets.

Thank you for sharing
 
Nice got my gar on pellet in a week :headbang2
 
Nice work OP.
 
I just wanted to give a quick update. He is still eating salmon slices, but now he is eating them right from my hand. It is awesome, now he really feels like a pet and not just a fish in my tank.

To anyone who hasn't hand fed their gar, the experience is worth it, so keep with it and good luck. (And my Aro is eating frozen chunks of Mysis)
 
CrazyJ;4264166; said:
I just wanted to give a quick update. He is still eating salmon slices, but now he is eating them right from my hand. It is awesome, now he really feels like a pet and not just a fish in my tank.

To anyone who hasn't hand fed their gar, the experience is worth it, so keep with it and good luck. (And my Aro is eating frozen chunks of Mysis)
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I seem to be one of the few who just can't get hand feeding to work. If I put my hand in the tank it instantly gets bit by gars and arowana. :(
 
Madding;4264169; said:
I seem to be one of the few who just can't get hand feeding to work. If I put my hand in the tank it instantly gets bit by gars and arowana. :(
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You could feed your arowana first then feed the gars longer strips of fish. Only ones I haven't tried to hand feed are shortnose, tropicals, cubans and gators. Since I can't find cubans or tropicals they are out and I'm not brave enough to try it with a gator so the shortnose is next on my list to hand feed.
 
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