sold to me as a florida gar i was told it was wild caught and has not eaten for 3 weeks yet, its with other sa/ca cichlids in a very large tank they get on better than i thought they might, not to keen on live food and would like to ween him on to other things any ideas??
The effects of inappropriate tankmates on gars...
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the others get there very fast tried white bait hand full lol, only been used to live food i think my dat took 6 weeks to take food, will eat all frozen food but no pellets,.
i have now moved him to another tank to feed him up abit idont know how starved he was to start with .he ate 10 platys 5 danios what did you guys start your gars on frozen/pellets ?,how long did it take for you? it was 6 weeks to get my dat to take bloodworm now he eats any thing bar pellets
Well let's look at this real quick....
The information from original post:
1. has not eaten for 3 weeks yet
2. its with other sa/ca cichlids in a very large tank
3. they get on better than i thought they might
Post#3
1. the others get there very fast
Post#5
1. i have now moved him to another tank to feed him up abit idont know how starved he was to start with .he ate 10 platys 5 danios
Post#6
1. well that was faster than i thought he ate 2 dead white bait tonight
Now look at this closely... Was this problem The Gar or was this problem all just husbandry error ?????? Ask yourself if this rather small sized Gar was really doing better in the big tank full of cichlids... Was it really? It seems to come up often that for some reason it is the Gar that is flawed in some way.. "It just won't eat", "It won't take this food or that food", It has problems.... More often than not the problems are not with the fish it is with how the fish is being kept in the first place..
This post should literally be a sticky just because it illustrates many of the common flaws in keeping Gars and then really... without assistance... shows very clearly the effects of removing that fish from that very wrong type of environment to the right one and the effect that has on the fish.
Now just apply a little patience and some persistence in offering them and that fish will likely be eating pellets in a week.... No starving needed.
You have a great looking FLG there BTW!
The information from original post:
1. has not eaten for 3 weeks yet
2. its with other sa/ca cichlids in a very large tank
3. they get on better than i thought they might
Post#3
1. the others get there very fast
Post#5
1. i have now moved him to another tank to feed him up abit idont know how starved he was to start with .he ate 10 platys 5 danios
Post#6
1. well that was faster than i thought he ate 2 dead white bait tonight
Now look at this closely... Was this problem The Gar or was this problem all just husbandry error ?????? Ask yourself if this rather small sized Gar was really doing better in the big tank full of cichlids... Was it really? It seems to come up often that for some reason it is the Gar that is flawed in some way.. "It just won't eat", "It won't take this food or that food", It has problems.... More often than not the problems are not with the fish it is with how the fish is being kept in the first place..
This post should literally be a sticky just because it illustrates many of the common flaws in keeping Gars and then really... without assistance... shows very clearly the effects of removing that fish from that very wrong type of environment to the right one and the effect that has on the fish.
Now just apply a little patience and some persistence in offering them and that fish will likely be eating pellets in a week.... No starving needed.
You have a great looking FLG there BTW!
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