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I posted some pictures of my reddish/rusty coloured gar several months ago.
Its colour still hasn't changed:
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/mwkoi/Pictures034.jpg
Oh.. wow, rare color! How much did you get it for?
xander
01-28-2008, 7:12 AM
does the colour remain after a substrate colour change?
Xander
It was in a clear tank when I first got it and has been in the current tank with ADA amazonia substrate for the past 4 months. It looked exactly the same as when I first got it. No change at all.
ausknife
01-28-2008, 7:45 AM
mad. thats awesome man he'd be worth a fortune here. whatd you pay and where in aus are you.
xander
01-28-2008, 7:51 AM
hmm, if you're willing to experiment, you could try changing the substrate to a lighter colour to see if it's just a colour phase, or a genuine morphology. i'm pretty curious to find out, as it makes all the difference in the world.
Saggitae
01-28-2008, 9:32 AM
That is one nice gar and unusual colouration. Well done.
Weylin
01-28-2008, 9:47 AM
Can we have some more pics..?
Polypterus
01-28-2008, 12:59 PM
hmm, if you're willing to experiment, you could try changing the substrate to a lighter colour to see if it's just a colour phase, or a genuine morphology. i'm pretty curious to find out, as it makes all the difference in the world.
IMO the coloration on this fish is physiologic and not Morphologic. It is not terribly uncommon for a gar to have this Red brown coloration to them. I have a Shortnosed that was much like this one when it was smaller. Not so much now that it has grown.
Fly River
01-28-2008, 1:13 PM
Sweet color
xander
01-28-2008, 1:23 PM
IMO the coloration on this fish is physiologic and not Morphologic. It is not terribly uncommon for a gar to have this Red brown coloration to them. I have a Shortnosed that was much like this one when it was smaller. Not so much now that it has grown.
in that case, a change in enviroment should return the fish back to it's normal colours, no? or does age simply put it right. what causes the red colouration?
Polypterus
01-28-2008, 1:35 PM
in that case, a change in enviroment should return the fish back to it's normal colours, no? or does age simply put it right. what causes the red colouration?
This is not really that uncommon...what is uncommon is the fish appears to be patternless dorsally and A Flordia/spotted. Accordingly this fish is only around 25CM it has a ways to grow still a very well could fade or change coloration.
Justin94565
01-31-2008, 4:33 AM
Nice lookin fish my dear friend.
norma
03-03-2008, 11:25 PM
Very nice fish. Very rare.
channarox
03-04-2008, 5:23 AM
now thats a red gar!
demjor19
03-04-2008, 7:43 AM
these fish are always going through color changes. every gar i have has changed color at some point in time. my first florida/spotted was almost completely black for it's first year...it now looks like a typical florida/spotted. your fish is young and has some growing to do yet.
E_americanus
03-04-2008, 8:48 AM
these fish are always going through color changes. every gar i have has changed color at some point in time. my first florida/spotted was almost completely black for it's first year...it now looks like a typical florida/spotted. your fish is young and has some growing to do yet.
exactly. just shows some juvenile variation...nice color/pattern, but nothing necessarily out of the ordinary for a young gar--
--solomon
Mystus Redtail
03-05-2008, 2:30 PM
That is beautiful
josefandtin
03-10-2008, 8:33 AM
cool gar. nice color. but its still young i doubt if it would stay the same when it gets old.