The smaller, stunted / not growing FL gar in the 240 gal. Doing well otherwise.
Four tropical gars, one florida gar, ~12"-15"
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The small garmy in the 4500 gal has been doing well - 2x tropical, 1x FL, and 1x longnose. You can see them snatching mullet and herring here and there:
The smaller, stunted / not growing FL gar in the 240 gal works on a head of a 6" finger mullet. Such rather small feed item seems surprisingly hard for it:
The 7 Cubans got a tank mate couple weeks back. So far so good. No problem with the goldfish. They don't pay any mind to it.
So the Cuban gars from stingrayguy are alright? No defects? I remembered last year the thread on the gars becoming deformed
Our 7 haven't developed any additional problem. Not that I noticed yet. Originally one came with a slightly but obviously misaligned snout, which of course remains and one came one-eyed, which of course too remains. Now, 1 of the 7 is the smallest and the shyest to the point that it makes me think it might have an internal problem, maybe in the form of a parasite. Just thinking at this point, not planning anything concrete.
The septet of Cubans is about 14"-15" on average now. As stated above one is a bit smaller, 13", and thinner but feeds. They bite each other tails mercilessly sometimes. I wonder if this is hunger and I should feed them more or if this is hierarchy (?). I've never observed or read of gars having hierarchies before, so I doubt the latter. But the bodies of 6 are nice and round, which makes me second guess the hunger... but it can't be anything else it seems.
