thanks! yes it's amazing how thin it is! i was quite apprehensive of adding it into the big tank as it is really only as thick as a 14" trop/florida gar...maybe thinner if it's a thick trop.
hehe thanks! yeah you really need to free up some time (ie - stop watching so many damn movies!!) and send me those spotteds!
reGARding the white elephant comment, i should have made it clear. when i use the idiom, i'm using it in a local (Singapore) context - something valuable (to avid gar collectors), which cost is disproportionate to its function (would likely be paying $1-200 more for a fish that is extremely similar -in the eyes of the local market- for something that would cost ~$10 over here) and which would be impossible to get rid of for the same kind of value.
i guess not the perfect metaphor, but it was 5am, and i really can't think of a much better one now anyways
haha got it above. thanks!! wanted to ask, do you think it will grow any longer than this?
haha got it - i think your use of the local "white elephant" term actually fits well. definitely something that only the serious collector would apply much value to as they tend to look a lot like FLGs...then again, the wild SPGs (and captive-raised to an extent) look nothing like FLGs...the colors are incredible.
as for the growth on your SNG...depends on a few things - how old is the fish, how long was it with the previous owner, and what was it fed? other factors may apply too, but my guess is that it won't grow much larger. you're looking at the smallest of the family, and at 18" you are around the middle/high end of the average adult captive SNG. they really slow down around 16-18", and specimens over 21" in the home aquaria are pretty rare from what we have seen/experienced thus far--
--solomon
