Tropical Gar on the Way!!!!

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$600 for the tank only. I got it from a member of a local reef club, Atlanta reef club. My girlfriends brother keeps a large reef tank and is an official of some sort. He called me when it was posted. Its a really nice tank. I'll be updating my thread about it this weekend. I have 90% of the components I need at this point. I'm plumbing the sump and testing it this weekend. Need a 3-d background and Garnet substrate and I'm done collecting :)))
 
the lion who ate the sun said:
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.
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Hopefully with this canister back on things will go back to normal. My endli had a little bit of a cloudy eye after i found him out of the tank but now it seems to be fine. I also dosed the tank with melafix.

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I'm about to add a second dose as the gars cloudy eye didn't clear up. My congicus had previously had an extremely mild case in one eye and it vanished.

Good news--the trops each downed 4-5 jumbo carni-sticks tonight! I think its solidified. They didn't take talapia tonight, but were interested. That doesn't bother me. A 100% pellet diet is better than what my picky gar is getting right now. I'm going to commence with a starvation period tomorrow to try to get him away from his 100% talapia diet.
 
How big do tropical gars get? My 300 stocklist is already going to be a large group, once grown. But your new additions look great.
 
bacon said:
How big do tropical gars get? My 300 stocklist is already going to be a large group, once grown. But your new additions look great.
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They get relatively small as far as gars go somewhere between 3-4 feet max. They grow fairly fast up until about 20", and slowdown to a inch or two a year from there on, at least that's what I have heard. Very hardy from what I hear, tolerating various water conditions.


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Mine certainly has not grown fast at all - I got her about 12 inches - and is growing much slower than my gator and longnose. Or maybe I just haven't kept track…
 
Post some pics johnny!
 
Like most garfishes, they slow way down in general growth after they get to the " to big to be eaten easily by something bigger than them" stage in the first year or two of life. That's some mess with the shipping. DB junkie ordered a bunch of fish from Wes, and they got held up for 3-4 extra days I think. He mentioned that the water temperature was 37℉ if I'm not mistaken. The only fish that were alive still were some sub-tropical Hoplias sp. Wolffish. Crazy March weather. Maybe we're done with the bad weather. Hopefully. Thanks
 
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