feeding suggestions for slantnose gar

[flyfly]

hello everybody! A friend of mine has recently got a slantnose gar which is about four to five inches long. He doesnt seem to eat much, except for some feeder danios recently aquired. Being that my friend doesnt have a quarantine tank, he was wondering if any body had any suggestions on what else it might eat. Possibly some kind of floating pellet?Thanks guys (and gals)!

 

[PurpleSmurf]

I'd think gars would be carnivourous. Try some beefheart and see what he does.

If the fish was just added to his tank recently allow several days for him to become accoustomed to the new environment.

 

[flyfly]

beef heart would be nice, but the gar stays up near the surface

 

[sivic]

Use some type of frozen food that will float. Frozen brine shrimp will tend to float pretty good when i used to feed it to my ropefish. Also try blood worms, tubifex(sp?) worms.

 

[VID]

I'm the one with the gar , I tried to use bloodworms but didnt seem interested when I first got him . I think ill try it again but the only time he really moved or seamed interested is when I put the live food in there. Does anyone else have any ideas on what to feed my gar

 

[Oddball~]

How big a tank is the gar in??? At least 150 gallons, I presume??? They get really large, as do all other gars.

 

[VID]

Nope only 30 right now he's pretty small and I heard they get about 18 inches max in wild but only ten in tanks from what I read about but all the other gars get huge

 

[Gambusia]

Slantnose gars I believe are really in the needlefish family .

I'm sure they are not true 'gars".

Any pics?

Does it look like this:

http://www.****************/images_01/needlenose.jpg

 

[Oddball~]

That's a needle-nosed gar and that's a brackish fish, not freshwater.

 

[Seaman]

the "slant nose" you're talking about is probbably a hujeta "gar" search google for hujeta "gar" and you should find it. Rarely over 10" in the home aquaria. Definetely FW not brackish. I have 5 and they are pretty hard to get off feeders. Try getting a clear acrylic rod, and skewer a small piece of shrimp or higher quality market fish....then move it around near the surface and they should strike it. You may not ever get them to realize that this is "dead" food and that its good, but atleast its cheaper than feeders and better for them.