This is the needle-nosed gar. I currently have one gar about 7 inches long in my twenty gallon tank. He is very entertaining to watch and to feed. However, it requires an interesting food supply of feeder fish. I use live guppies (from my small tank) and an occasional frozen feeder fish. Usually he is quite skiddish, but he is a beast when it comes to food. I will upload a video of mine eating as soon as possible. It is recommended to keep these fish in a small school, but mine does fine alone. They can grow up to 13 inches long, so a large tank is necessary. Unfortunatly, my gar may soon outgrow his tank. If you decide to keep one, make sure that the other fish are too big for him to swallow, and be careful when putting you hand in the tank, as he will bite. I found that out the hard way. They do best with live foods (fish, crickets, tadpoles, small frogs), but they can be trained to eat frozen feeder fish.
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