crocodile gar
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Do you mean the alligator gar? There's the true alligator gar which gets HUGE and also many common shortnose gars sometimes labeled with the same name.
Crocodile gars, Hybrids of Atractosteus and Lepisosteus are currently much rarer than Cuban Gars or Tropicals in the hobby.
Not a whole lot of these artificial hybrids were produced and the farm that produced them seems to have disappeared. A very Very few have been wild caught. These fish are out there but it takes a close eye to recognize one when you see one.
Four known types exist both in wild and cultivated varieties:
Atractosteus spatula X Lepisosteus platostomus (Croc gar type I)
A. spatula X L. platyrhinchus (Croc gar type II)
A. spatula X L. oculatus
A. spatula X L. osseus
There is a strong possiability of A.spatula X A. tropicus from mexican aquacultured fish
I had a Spatula X Platostomus that was wild caught but has odd affinity as there where neither fish in the area of capture. It remains a mystery how this fish got where it did. The most plausable reason is it was a hobby release, however it was only 5 inches when I recieved it.
A good friend now owns this fish
Not a whole lot of these artificial hybrids were produced and the farm that produced them seems to have disappeared. A very Very few have been wild caught. These fish are out there but it takes a close eye to recognize one when you see one.
Four known types exist both in wild and cultivated varieties:
Atractosteus spatula X Lepisosteus platostomus (Croc gar type I)
A. spatula X L. platyrhinchus (Croc gar type II)
A. spatula X L. oculatus
A. spatula X L. osseus
There is a strong possiability of A.spatula X A. tropicus from mexican aquacultured fish
I had a Spatula X Platostomus that was wild caught but has odd affinity as there where neither fish in the area of capture. It remains a mystery how this fish got where it did. The most plausable reason is it was a hobby release, however it was only 5 inches when I recieved it.
A good friend now owns this fish
oh yea, cool ass fish, i would like to get another too, miss watching him put the feeders away, damn they are fun to wathc eat
mnruxpin said:
The difference is you did not know what the fish was. There are very big differences in Juvinile Atractosteus spatula and Hybrid fish, most are very clear.
Just because the LFS calls it an "alligator gar" does not make it one. If any LFS had there way all seven species and six known hybrid types would be labled "Croc gar" or "alligator gar" reGardless of true affinity.
Common names mean little to nothing in the real gar enthusiast world. Us serious Gar hobbyists have known this ignorance of naming for years and ignore all common names when Identifying a fish.
Show us the fish we will tell you species 95% of the time.
