Big longnose gars

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Wow, I would love a white longnose gar. I would be worried to ship a big longnose seeing how they like to move their heads from side to side more than the other gars I have kept, but if anyone can do it, it's you.
 
Tendou Souji;4431824; said:
Your LNG seems to have a particularly long nose, as compared to Xander's LNG (previously mine). Solomon, I'm sure you're able to give us an explanation reGARding this?=)
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in captivity, finding and catching prey items is easy. so a fish will put less of it's bodily resources towards developing physical attributes that would better their hunting abilities as they would in the wild. as a result we often see our captive fish having shorter snouts and smaller teeth

Snookin, awesome looking longnose gar man!
 
RedDwarf;4431848; said:
Wow, I would love a white longnose gar. I would be worried to ship a big longnose seeing how they like to move their heads from side to side more than the other gars I have kept, but if anyone can do it, it's you.
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I place the bigger longnose gars in big pipes, then bag them so they cant punture threw anything, or injure them selfs. You have to make sure the pipe is big enough for them to be submerged in and also big enough for them to gulp air with their big beak. Heres another picture. I guarentee live arrival 100% or your money back. So the risk is worth taking for anyone interested. I will post a for sale add once hes ready. Thanks, John

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He made it to his new home today! Im stoked! Upon arrival he was measured in at 24" long ;) Came in in perfect condition, 10 states away!!! Im glad I can send these Monsters to all of the legal states, it makes me happy seeing you guys get what you really want.

Thanks, John
 
John, I will be interested if you get more large ones in. 24" is probably unnecessary, but even 15", 18", 20", etc would be great.
 
xander;4432561; said:
in captivity, finding and catching prey items is easy. so a fish will put less of it's bodily resources towards developing physical attributes that would better their hunting abilities as they would in the wild. as a result we often see our captive fish having shorter snouts and smaller teeth

Snookin, awesome looking longnose gar man!
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interesting comments xander...care to cite your source on this?--
--solomon

PS-- John, congrats on the big LNG getting to its destination safely :)
 
phenotypic plasticity, love it!

E_americanus;4335878; said:
Florida gar for sure...i am yet to see any fish on the South/Southeast Asian sites that i would positively ID as true spotted gars.

another thing to note is that gars in captivity will tend to have shorter snouts than their wild counterparts in many cases. they also tend to have smaller teeth...i think i mentioned to the OP (via the gar quiz thread) to check out "phenotypic plasticity"...anyone else curious should look into it too.

if you think about it logically, it makes sense...if you are being fed all the time and don't truly need to hunt down your food (even dropping a bunch of feeders into a gar tank doesn't compared to truly hunting down food in the wild), you don't need to put resources toward larger teeth, longer jaws, etc etc as the fish develops. this is why we see wild gars with much larger teeth than captive gars of similar age or size.

new gar quiz will be posted soon...hopefully later today--
--solomon
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http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4335878#post4335878

ps: i have limited sources Sol...:p
 
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