Tgar broke his nose, DAMN

[E_americanus]

i agree with richard, and also have my suspicions as to the true nature of the origin of this damage. i've never had this kind of damage come up from a young fish running into the side of the glass. tankmates sound much more likely to cause that sort of severe damage.

also take into account that, although small, t-gars (and their genus in general) are very stout and have well-built skulls...i seriously doubt they can generate enough force in an aquarium to break their own snouts like this.

as mentioned earlier, pics will help, but my guess is something grabbed a hold of the snout and then proceeded to break it. even if the gar can feed, if the snout damage is constantly causing new loss of blood, the best advice (again, we'll wait until seeing pics) would be to put down the fish. sorry to hear about your gar --
--solomon

 

[adamstv]

u know what i agree with americanus. U see the way they feed the end up holding either it being krill or shrimp in their mouth sideways for a while until swallowing. My arowana decided he wanted the krill that was in my old gars mouth and grabbed him by the head. he didnt break his nose but did break his back.

I had to put him down a week or so after this incident. It was quite depressing. and i believe the same might had happened to your.

any possible culprits? o ya and pics please

 

[suckerfish]

that sucks. one of mine is a spaz too. good luck w/ him.

 

[Superlaz]

Given how massive the injury sounds, I would think that it was caused by another fish....but I can't rule out the slamming into the glass theory. One of my gars slammed into the glass a month or so ago, broke the tip of his snout...had it pointing upwards...its fine now, the tip is still broken and kinda facing upward but not at a full 90º. He eats fine and acts as if nothing...I thought I had a pic....

 

[demjor19]

are there any pics of this fish? i am curious as to the extent of the injury.

 

[adamstv]

yes pics plz