xander;4289529; said:dont know how many times i've tried starting these kind of threads. nvm, i'll chip in this one too!
here's the link to the old one. maybe we can get some stuff frm there over here too. it's interesting to see how much the tanks have changed since then.
Tank
-5x3x2 (lxwxh)-filtered by an eheim 2260. contains 10l biomedia, 5l mechmedia & a micron 200.
-water change is 25-50% weekly, depending on how much i feel is necessary.
-pH is stable at 7.5
-temp is at 27-28degC
-*i use crushed coral sand as substrate to mantain the stable pH that the cubans need.
-** i keep my tank decor to a minimum and at the lower levels of the tank to allow my gars maximum swimming area. as they are quite large i don't feel such a great need for cover. however, with younger specimens adequate cover is advisable for them to feel secure...and avoid back breaking incidences..
Fish
- are fed a handful of hikiri sticks daily. once a week they get a half kg of shrimp. from time to time they get feeders.
-* I included the length of time that the fish were kept for and reason(if applicable) any fish was removed from the tank. reason being that a lot of people will look at a combo/pic, see a gar with a pleco/oscar/crocodile & go "hey, he can do it...so can i!"...without realising that these combos often result in injury/fatality sooner or later.
Gar
- 3x 23-25" Cuban gar (2 of which are some of the original fishes from when i started this tank)
- 25" longnose gar (been living peacfully in this tank for about 4 months)
- 2x 12-21" florida gar (have been successfully living in the tank for 4 months and 1 month respectively)
tankmates
- 2x 11-14" poly lapradei (one of which was introduced to the tank at the same time as the 2 cubans above)
- 7" poly endlicheri (been in the tank for 2 days)
- 7" channa pleurothalma (been living in the tank for roughly 3 months)
past tankmates (advisable)
- various species of gars from 10" - 18" (had many of them for varying periods of time. i had no issues with any of them)
- a number of african arowana ranging in size from 10" to 18" (kept these fish with the gars for 3-6months. aside from some of the smaller specimens getting shredded, no accidents to cause any real worry)
- a number of polypterus species, varying from 10" to 18". (Never had any issues)
past tankmates (dubious - poor)
- 12" barramundi (dubious, kept for less than 3months, repeatedly stole food out of gars mouths, causing them to dart off)
- 12" oscar (outright bad idea,kept for 1 day, outright aggression displayed to my cubans)
- 12-15" orino bass (dubious, kept for less than 5 months, sudden dashes causing gars to follow suit, boisterous feedings occasionally caused gars to dart off)
- 15" goliath atf (poor, constant spazzing caused the gars to follow suit)
future plans & planned tankmates
-i have a 6x3x2.5 planned for them in the near future...and am going to throw in a long list of dubious tankmates that i will likely be unmercilessly desecrated for...
the tank 6 months ago...looks pretty much the same..but with more gar. will add a more recent pic soon
sorry to derail the thread, but whats that fat gar in the bottom right
I can't wait till that thing gets huge!!!
...she said it was the uglest thing around when i got it and now she wants more and almost cried when it jumped out before...
