They look great! Hopefully they dont take too long to train.
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Tropical Gar on the Way!!!!
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$80 each. I'm realllly excited to see what Polypterus they bring over. Ive been eyeballing their singapore stock and drooling for almost a year now haha.
Their color is almost a hazelnut shade--think coffee with creamer. They are striking in person. Absolutely beautiful fish.
Thanks cody. What do your gar eat? I'm hoping they'll take to talapia and pellets quickly. One of my Florida's refuses pellets altogether
those look really awsome hopefully they will be i have a florida that got lost in shipment and it was actually taken back to the sender by mistake
it had to be resent it turned out ok
it had to be resent it turned out ok
They look great. It's almost impossible to kill a gar. They are the most hardy fish on the planet. I had one jump out of my tank and the next morning I found it on the ground totally bone dry and hard as a rock but it was still breathing. I put it back in my tank and it slowly recovered. Almost all the scales fell off and it grew new ones. They didn't last this long for no reason!
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Nice pick up! Tropicals haven't been readily available that I know of in the states for awhile now. Gonna have to keep a closer eye on Primo since they seem like they maybe bringing in some stuff we don't usually see, shortbodies, platinums, etc.
Suggestions as far as feeding I used to feed my Gars shrimp which they readily took. As far as pellets I don't know if it was the shape or what but I was able to break my shortnose and floridas onto pellets with Hikari Aro Sticks easily and from there they took to all floating pellets pretty readily. Another thing worth mentioning is tropical gars tend to be one of the more aggressive gars so keep an eye on them.
Suggestions as far as feeding I used to feed my Gars shrimp which they readily took. As far as pellets I don't know if it was the shape or what but I was able to break my shortnose and floridas onto pellets with Hikari Aro Sticks easily and from there they took to all floating pellets pretty readily. Another thing worth mentioning is tropical gars tend to be one of the more aggressive gars so keep an eye on them.
Notice anything different? They ate today! I picked up a large amount of ghost shrimp this morning, but figured I'd offer talapia and pellets first. First they ate talapia, then minutes later went after the pellets!
I'm not putting the live in their tank now
I tossed most of them in my p. Kolibas grow out tank and the rest in with my breeding pair of axolotls. The koliba has like 40 ghost shrimp to choose from haha. Quite a buffet!
$80 each. I'm realllly excited to see what Polypterus they bring over. Ive been eyeballing their singapore stock and drooling for almost a year now haha.
Their color is almost a hazelnut shade--think coffee with creamer. They are striking in person. Absolutely beautiful fish.
Thanks cody. What do your gar eat? I'm hoping they'll take to talapia and pellets quickly. One of my Florida's refuses pellets altogether
My guys will eat anything my polys eat plus freeze dried krill. One will take pellets. Im trying to get them both and my polys on pellets by stuffing them in their food. But my polys havent ate anything all week except silversides once. Its weird because usually theyre right on the food. Now they just sniff and swim away. And they only eat at lights out now. But i ran into a huge problem. Very high nitrites and nitrates. So that couldve done it. I had a canister and two hob on the tank, about an hour ago i moved one of the hobs to my 75 and and took my sunsun canister back to the 150 where it started. So everything should be good in a day or two. The tank had great parameters when the sunsun was on the first time. Thats probably why my endli jumped lol. Anyways wnough of the derail. Carry on. And im glad to see they started eating tilapia and they look great!
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Nitrites mean the tank is cycling. If the nitrites are high the cycle is almost over. Swapping the filters is what caused it. A lot of fish fast when nitrates are high. My Poly's definitely do.
Try feeding them talapia. All my Poly's love talapia with no exceptions. I mix massivore into the talapia and they wind up eating it too. Most of mine eat massivore now even without the talapia. I think they associate the taste and smell with their favorite now. I used the same technique to swap my grow outs away from blood worms. Good luck.
I've been tunneling pellets into them all night. They're both stuffed. Hopefully their appetite won't ebb. I'm about to dose melafix because one of them has a slight case of cloudy eye. Exposure to ammonia in the bag is my guess.
Try feeding them talapia. All my Poly's love talapia with no exceptions. I mix massivore into the talapia and they wind up eating it too. Most of mine eat massivore now even without the talapia. I think they associate the taste and smell with their favorite now. I used the same technique to swap my grow outs away from blood worms. Good luck.
I've been tunneling pellets into them all night. They're both stuffed. Hopefully their appetite won't ebb. I'm about to dose melafix because one of them has a slight case of cloudy eye. Exposure to ammonia in the bag is my guess.
