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gaz025;4112651; said:
lmfao . i really cant beleive you have so many posts yet you are against people asking questions that they can find out the answers to themselves and i hope that in future you will try to stick to your own version of what a forum is for and not ask or answer any questions where the answer can be found by any lenth of internet searching. good luck to you .

but to anyone else. what sort of gar is this ? florida or spotted . im under the impression that they are very similar and would like to know which one.

many thanks.
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what has the number of posts i have got to do with anything?

the fact is the info is out there, and more of it than most of us can type on a single thread, so why not access the valuable wealth of info rather than sit there & wait for it to be fed to you...

for anyone who has done any reading on spotted gars...it's straight up obvious you have a florida gar...now, do you feel better knowing what it is? wouldn't learning how to tell for yourself have been better? geez talk about wanting a fish for a day....
 
lmfao . thanks for the id . that wasnt so hard now was it .

i beleive the difference between the florida and the spotted is something to do with the distance from the eye to the gill cover but after checking how to find out i still wasnt sure so thought i would ask some more experienced people from a forum . as i believe thats the idea. asking people who have more experience in different areas.

but as you said there is no need for a forum at all when there is so much info out there all anyone has to do is look and the number of posts you have has alot to do with it since i find it hard to belieive that you have so many posts on threads that could not be answered by any amount of internet searching .

i do feel better for knowing the answer to my question yes. thats kind of the point of asking it . i just didnt think i would find it so hard to get such a simple answer from people who are more experienced in identifying this particular type of fish than i am myself although i would have liked to have a few opinions on what it is to be sure.

its a shame there are so many people unwilling to help others or are the first to critisize.

dont forget, if nobody posts . or if everyone is so botherd about being flamed or shot down for asking something simple . the forum dies . but i guess that would fit in with your, "dont ask questions that can be answered by searching the internet" rule

i hope in future our conversations might be a little friendlier . ill ask for a second opinion on the id on another forum instead to be sure i dont offend anyone here or phrase the question wrong

many thanks.
 
no offence intended, btw, yr spotted gar info or assumptions are outdated, do a bit of reading & u'll see it's pretty obvious;)
 
Florida gar.

xander is right, although he may not have worded it the best way possible. it should be clarified that searching on THIS forum (or www.aquaticpredators.com) OR the pinned topics all about gar ID at the top of this forum (primitivefishes.com, lepisosteidae.net) would help you come to your answer and provide accurate information. not just a very general internet search.

what we hope to accomplish is that the ID questions can be answered on your own (you at least narrowed it down, so nice job with that, however, in this case 95% of all gars that come up in ID threads are FL gars...you'd see this info by looking at the previous ID threads); and from there on we can all help/learn/discuss other questions. answering the same questions over and over may keep the forum going, but it makes for a very boring and generally uninformative and "basic" forum...why not keep the info and discussions moving forward, and using the search and pinned topics will allow newcomers to quickly get up to speed--
--solomon
 
ok i did have a quick look at the stickies but strangley i did miss the gar id threat :o . sorry i know i looked at at least one of them.

ok so i checked out the gar id thread and tbh im none the wiser. im not a member of ap or at least i have forgoten my login details .

this one i found most usefull. :
http://www.primitivefishes.com/Gars.htm

but .... looking at the florida gar on their i dont think the one i have pictured matches .

so im back to square one .

im pretty sure its florida or spotted but on the above link the snout looks much longer for a florida gar .
 
Your fish is a florida gar with a very neat pattern of spots - well spread out, almost like you see on a longnose!

Nice Florida.
 
gaz025;4113405; said:
ok i did have a quick look at the stickies but strangley i did miss the gar id threat :o . sorry i know i looked at at least one of them.

ok so i checked out the gar id thread and tbh im none the wiser. im not a member of ap or at least i have forgoten my login details .

this one i found most usefull. :
http://www.primitivefishes.com/Gars.htm

but .... looking at the florida gar on their i dont think the one i have pictured matches .

so im back to square one .

im pretty sure its florida or spotted but on the above link the snout looks much longer for a florida gar .
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aside from the other info i made in my initial post, i did mention your gar is a Florida. it's a Florida gar.

FL gars have highly variable patterns and the snout length and width will appear to vary a bit as the fish ages. the more individuals you look at the more you will see these phenomena and you'll be better able to ID the fishes.--
--solomon
 
I learn something new every time a question is asked and answered. Even old questions bring out new answers and new points of view. As long as this forum is not for gar expert discussion only, I can't believe every time a new gar keeper posts a simple gar question, the same guy will always be the first to turn out to criticize. I wonder whether he was treated this way when he was new to gar.
 
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xander is good. so is alot of folks on here. we just want people to use the search forum instead of creating fluff threads.
 
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