I gave up on the pellets, spent like $45 in past couple years on various products and my gar doesn't want anything to do with, my datnoids will even spit them out. My fish seem really picky though, have heard of gar accepting pellets, so you might have better luck.
Success! Weening Juvenile Gar Off Live Food
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Dionysus;3356899; said:
hey mate, what was your method of getting them onto non-live food? I am sure alot of people on this forum would be interested to know.
getting my gar to get off live food was one of the hardest thing to do. hopefully u can get him to eat even without the tongs but congrats
franchise513;3379927; said:
Google image search will be your friend in regards to that question.....
Bad news though...not really that bad actually... but my gar has started to eat alot less than usual... only like 2 pieces of fish a day.. when before he was eating like 6-8 pieces everyday for the last 2 weeks... he put on some serious weight in the last 2 weeks though. I don't really know what is wrong with him but my dad guessed that maybe the fish was hurting itself when it accidentally bit the metal tongs/tweezers... tried switching over to plastic tongs in the last couple of days with only minor success... will see how I go.
He may just have been underfed and really hungry. Now that he's fattened up a bit, he doesn't need to eat as much food at each feeding. As long as he doesn't start losing weight, then I don't think the decreased feeding is anything to worry about. My Florida gars were the same way after I first got them. Several weeks of frantic gobbling down everything in site, then once they had gained some size and weight, they started eating less than they use to. But they're still big and fat 
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