I'm thinking about trying again with Longnose. They're really common in the Nanticoke River in my state, but it's actually seems to be dominated with larger 3-5 foot specimens. I'd know I don't want something tiny, but not that massive either so that it could go with my other grow out gar species I have that are all around a foot long.
The question is figuring out a good math of determining the right size based on average growth rate I would want to start with to get him stay on track with my other gars that would make the perfect community harmony. I know Longnose grow quicker and bigger, but to me it takes a longer Longnose to equally compare to the girth and size of other gar species because of their skinnier more stretched out features IMO. It gives me a math headache, because the gar species seem to vary so much in their growth and sometimes within the same species. In example, the Shortnose Gar I have now was growing considerably faster than the Florida Gars, but now they seem to be around about the same growth rate.
I mainly just don't want any incidents like what happened years ago when I foolishly kept an attractive Longnose Gar specimen (my favorite gar at the time) with similarly sized Alligator Gar and witnessed an over excited snap during feeding time. Florida and Shortnose Gar might not have the same comparable jaw pressure and size of an Alligator, but still... I don't want that happening again.
The question is figuring out a good math of determining the right size based on average growth rate I would want to start with to get him stay on track with my other gars that would make the perfect community harmony. I know Longnose grow quicker and bigger, but to me it takes a longer Longnose to equally compare to the girth and size of other gar species because of their skinnier more stretched out features IMO. It gives me a math headache, because the gar species seem to vary so much in their growth and sometimes within the same species. In example, the Shortnose Gar I have now was growing considerably faster than the Florida Gars, but now they seem to be around about the same growth rate.
I mainly just don't want any incidents like what happened years ago when I foolishly kept an attractive Longnose Gar specimen (my favorite gar at the time) with similarly sized Alligator Gar and witnessed an over excited snap during feeding time. Florida and Shortnose Gar might not have the same comparable jaw pressure and size of an Alligator, but still... I don't want that happening again.
