Oddball
Fishaholic
hey all recently i have bought a small asiatic needle nosed gar (mouthful isnt it) and im having a nightmare feeding it.
I was asssured (and watched) that it ate blood worm cubes, now that ive had for a week its not touching them. Ive tried shrimp and lance fish and at best it grabs the food then simply lets go of it letting the chichlidds below waffle it up. It dislikes pellet food unlike its other tankmate a hujeta garfish (not forgetting the cichlids!) and ive only been able to get him to devour a female guppy, but this would prove expensive as i have to put five or six in at a time before it can catch one, and the other gar its the rest along with the solitary female livingstonii cichlid.
Is there any way to wean this monster on to frozen food? otherwise im gonna have to get ANOTHER tank just for him and stick a hundred and one guppys in there!
i dont think i can afford that, also the guppys look of bog eyed disbelief kinda makes u want to pry the gar's jaws open, perhaps i shouldnt watch.....
I was asssured (and watched) that it ate blood worm cubes, now that ive had for a week its not touching them. Ive tried shrimp and lance fish and at best it grabs the food then simply lets go of it letting the chichlidds below waffle it up. It dislikes pellet food unlike its other tankmate a hujeta garfish (not forgetting the cichlids!) and ive only been able to get him to devour a female guppy, but this would prove expensive as i have to put five or six in at a time before it can catch one, and the other gar its the rest along with the solitary female livingstonii cichlid.
Is there any way to wean this monster on to frozen food? otherwise im gonna have to get ANOTHER tank just for him and stick a hundred and one guppys in there!