Who is the Culprit?

[m245]

I posted a while back about my gator took down a 8" pbass and tried to swallow it whole. After that I was down to 2 smaller pbass in the tank. Yesterday I found that there was only one pbass left in the tank. I searched everywhere (even the floor though my tank is well covered), it has just vanished and was nowhere to be found. It was not only the length, but the body depth of the pbass made it quit unlikely that it was devoured whole by the gar. Could the gator shred the body of the pbass by some means before swallowing it?
Those pbass were very aggresive and would gobble up all feeders before my gars could catch one. This could be the ultimate revenge of my gator .

The pbass swimming happily in the tank


The gator dragging the dead pbass around trumphantly after failing to swallow it a few days ago.


Could it be this guy? - An 9" endli in there

 

[pagojoe]

It's hard to say. I've seen 2-pound gator gar caught on a 4-pound hunk of carp, and I've seen the stomach contents of gator gar that included both halves of large buffalo and carp. They are definitely capable of slicing larger fish into more bite-sized pieces. It's odd that yours dragged the bass around that long without making it swallowable, though. Maybe it was just TOO big, or the fish just hasn't learned the trick yet. I know very little about endlis, but yours certainly LOOKS like he could be capable of eating a peacock bass...

Cheers,



Don​

 

[Gator]

Dont underestimate what gar can swallow especially Gators. He'll have no problems at all swallowing those little Pbass. . A gator gar with tankmates isnt the best idea.

 

[m245]

Dont underestimate what gar can swallow especially Gators. He'll have no problems at all swallowing those little Pbass. . A gator gar with tankmates isnt the best idea.

The photo made them look smaller than they actually were cuz they were deep down in the bottom. They were not 'little' Pbass, comparatively speaking.

 

[Gator]

small enough to get swallowed.