Fussy Asiatic gar

Oddball

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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 presume you are talking about Xentodon cancila? These are almost impossible to ween onto non live foods and will demand living fish as their only feed though most will also take live river shrimp which is a cheaper slightly more humane way of feeding them.
 
Oh yes :lol: i vividly remember the day i went to retrieve a leaf that was floating on the surface of the water and seconds later was wearing a needle fish finger puppet :/
 
LOL CFC

By the way Oddball, I have heard its Illegal to feed live fish in the UK. Not saying anything against it, just for info. You could theoritically end up banned from keeping any animals for a few years. Inverts such as shrimp are ok though.

Jon
 
jflowers said:
LOL CFC

By the way Oddball, I have heard its Illegal to feed live fish in the UK. Not saying anything against it, just for info. You could theoritically end up banned from keeping any animals for a few years. Inverts such as shrimp are ok though.

Jon
but fingers aren't live food :lol: well maybe they are lol
 
I doubt it will take the earthworms or mealworms but crickets swimming on the surface may attract some attention. These fish are practically pure piscavors to their prey needs to be moving and prefferably shiney and eye catching.
 

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