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rocket gar

May have to try and trick him like that lol. I have some floating pellets in there now but he just stares at them.

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There's a few decent threads here about them or mentioning them.

I got a pair myself and they don't seem to grow, I have my two in a 180g and feed mostly tilapia chunks.
 
Try to pellet train them so they get the best nutrition.
Also put a bunch o floating plants in your tank to give them some cushion so they dont get all bent up. That will also give them more places to hide and they will be stoked.
 
I've had mine for about 4 months now.. Don't think he's grown more than a fraction of an inch. He's in a 55g but I'm picking up a 120g today, hope he'll grow a little quicker with extra room. I can't get him to eat anything but minnows, gonna try the fishing line with frozen shrimp that someone mentioned. They're cool fish though!
 
I had three two jumped out of tank after eight months and one got nailed my a convict :( , they did take pellets after a few weeks but before that I was feeding them tiny bits of prawn (shrimp) , they did start to grow in length slightly and got a lot fatter they were like pencils when I got them
 
I had one grow to just under 9 inches before it jumped in the night. He took pellets and freeze dried shrimp readily as that's all I fed the tank. He seemed to prefer the shrimp. I've also heard they do well in small groups and tend to be less skittish that way.

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C. hujeta do best when kept in groups, as they are a schooling fish, but they will do fine being kept as individuals. They normally grow 8-14 inches long, although wild specimens have been known to get close to 30 inches. They need at least a 55 gallon aquarium, with plants near the glass so they don't harm their delicate beak. The normally only eat live foods, (rosies, goldfish, minnows, worms, insects, etc..). They can also eat anything less than half the size of their body, but they will normally leave "tall" fish (angelfish, black skirt tetra, etc...) alone. They need fairly warm water at about 78-85 degrees, and the water needs to be very clear and slightly acidic to neutral. Very fun fish to keep and I wish you the best of luck with this guy. The Rocket Gar, is also not actually a gar as you might know, but it is a pike characin. Other names include; Silver Gar, Silver Pike Characin, Hujeta Gar, Hujeta Pike, Slant-Nose Gar, Freshwater Barracuda, Hujeta Pike Characin, Yellowtail Barracuda, South American Gar, and Silver Needlefish. They are native to the Amazon river, so they live GREAT with other Amazon predator tetras such as Freshwater barracudas, Payaras, and Boulengerella sp since the care is vertiually the same for Ctenolucjus, Acerstorhynchus, Hydrolycus, and Boulengerella besides a few species in Hydrolycus and Boulengerella that may outgrow a 55 gallon. Hope this helps!
 
Very cool fish... I have worked with this species in the past.... Be careful as they will attack smaller tankmates.


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you have C.Hujeta, good fish...love them because their speed to hunt their prey

but my fav is Odoe, their body not long as hujeta here's my guy



 
^Nice odoe.

I think that hujetas are awesome fish. The one I had ate pellets quite easily. I had him with my baby tigers while I was pellet training them. He learned to eat pellets from the barbs using the teacher fish method and I wasn't even intending to teach him. I miss that fish, he ended up making a good meal for my juruense.
 
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