Gar identification please

Malte81

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Hi,

i picked up 3 little gars and dont know if they are spotted or florida.
They are imported to Germany from Asia and the Dealer said they are spotted gars.
Here a few pics.




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Malte81

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On the Internet there are several pics from Florida gars with really nice Pattern .
Is this only luck to get one of these beautiful Fish ?
The most gars i had seen so far have unclean patterns.
With nice pattern i mean the big round points all over the Body.
 

Lepisosteus

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Florida and spotted gars are near impossible to distinguish based on look. If they were imported from Asia then there's a chance their spotted. If the farm properly identified the fish they were breeding as spotted gars then that's what you have. If they did not identify the gars as spotted then its more then likely Florida gars.
 

Ian21777

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When I got my spotted gar I was told that there was no way it was a spotted gar unless I knew it had been imported from the natural habitat. That if it was imported from Asia it was definitely a florida mislabelled as a spotted...

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Siddons11

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Here are some spotted juveniles to compare

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