Needlenose gar

[mikeee1969]

:help: I am a new guy here and trying to find out what I can about needle fish. I guess I am specifically looking for anyone who has successfully bred them. I have never INTENTIONALLY bred them or ANY other fish although I have kept fish all my life and currently have five tanks in my home. Anyway, I guess I have what should be referred to as a breeding pair of Needlenose Gar fish. They have had babies twice now since I got them but none have survived. The first batch caught me TOTALLY shocked and unprepared. I had nothing to feed them and that was that.
Last week I had batch number two, about 40 fry and I thought I was ready, but again they all died. I had gone out and purchased a net breeder and a brine shrimp hatchery. As soon as I noticed the fry I seperated them into the net breeder and set up the hatchery but they take 24-40 hours to hatch. By that time over half my fry were dead, and though I attempted to feed the remainder, they all also died over the course of the next two days.

My two main questions are did anyone know they are live bearers, and since they only eat live food does anyone know what else to try to feed them?

 

[Sploke]

Those are fairly decent sized fry, and most livebearer fry can eat finely ground flake food, although I'm not sure if these would go for it. I would try bbs, microworms or vinegar eels, or even some flake food ground up very finely. There is also fry food called First Bites which is almost a powder that might work.

 

[captaincaveman9]

newly hatched brine shrimp work from what I've been told

 

[jaysen]

they seem to be a lot like the belonesox i used to have. how big are the babies? you should take only 3 or 4 babies and just focus on those. they need food all the time. i started them on live tubifex worm, bbs, and daphnia. i kept them in a 10 gallon tank with just a heater, 3 inches of water, and tons of floating plants for them to feel comfortable. water changes every other day at 50%. make sure they are always eating. use tweezers to move the worms if u need to, they are attracted to the movement. good luck.

 

[Virtuoso2K12]

i think i found your solution,i found this on liveaquria.com,its called phytoplan or zoplan.I fed this to my halfbeaks,but it may work for your baby gars