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07-06-2008, 10:56 AM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Illinois
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|  The only needlenoses I've seen are silver. What variety is that?
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07-06-2008, 03:02 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Vidor, Texas
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| i agree, if your keepin any kind of gar, you'll need a good sized tank. thanks a ton for all the info guys, yall gave me just what i needed to know, as usual 
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07-07-2008, 06:43 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Memphis, TN
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| Had one in a twenty with a catfish of some type. He jumped out, so I'd say keep a tight lid on them. Also, they will eat anything and everything. When we caught him (yeah I know, bad... But they're considered pests where we caught him so he'd just be killed anyhow... Painfuly.) we decided to leave him in my little 10 with cardinal tetra... o_o; He ate all but one, which hid in the castle and was paranoid for the rest of it's life. (It lived longer than the gar amazingly.) Then we put him in with the catfish (I can't remember what kind it was) and they kinna got along... The damn gar could go from one side to the other in under 1 second. He was small too... Then the catfish caused him to jump and he dried up on the floor (it happened at night. He jumped out where the HOB hung on) |
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07-07-2008, 09:08 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Vidor, Texas
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| yea, ive heard that they can be pretty crazy jumpers, and ive seen videos of them bein fed, and i have to agree, theyre darn fast
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07-08-2008, 09:19 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On my office chair playing Runescape
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| Umm Needlenoses are NOT true gars. They need constant feeding and require at LEAST a 40 breeder for bioload reasons.
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07-08-2008, 09:40 PM
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| MFT Staff  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Columbia, SC
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| But they are still named as such. Gar = Spear in old English, and they fit that description. I think the size of the tank is determined by their size and swimming ability rather then bioload. If you don't throw tons of feeders in there constantly the bioload won't be high. Feed them when needed, they will eat it all guaranteed.
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07-08-2008, 09:44 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Vidor, Texas
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| yea from what ive seen, alligator gar and the likes(true gar) can live in some pretty polluted, low oxygen waters.
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