Golden gar

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King-eL

King-eL

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Found this video of a golden gar with some black marking on the back.
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Im just saying that I think that the platinum and wild colorations are more elegant and cool, this fish looks tacky
 
indiana.dutton;3654219; said:
wow for some reason that is not appealing to me and just looks mundane, like a koi
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Strange but true!
It's nice, but does not not as scary as the usual coloured ones.
But that may be a matter of taste...

btw do you read chinese, King-el?lol
 
it's japanese. and lovely looking gar! interesting effect withthe piebald. it'd be nice to know if that's a regular pattern or a phase thing. i know chad's old gold gars went through several parts of the year being completely black/regular coloured. thou i must say the colours are migh closer to orange than actual gold.
 
Noddy;3654447; said:
Strange but true!
It's nice, but does not not as scary as the usual coloured ones.
But that may be a matter of taste...

btw do you read chinese, King-el?lol
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Nope I cannot read Chinese as I'm not Chinese and the characters on the Vid are Japanese.
 
xander;3654466; said:
it's japanese. and lovely looking gar! interesting effect withthe piebald. it'd be nice to know if that's a regular pattern or a phase thing. i know chad's old gold gars went through several parts of the year being completely black/regular coloured. thou i must say the colours are migh closer to orange than actual gold.
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Chad's fish was doing it because of maturity/spawning phases, this fish is a young of the year (YOY) or very early stage yearling as indicated by the fact that it still has a tail filament. also quite fat for its size, indicating "over-care" of the fish...something that valuable is often overfed and develops massive fat bodies which can lead to early death (we have seen this in the leucistic t-gars).

the black/gold/orange pattern has been called a 'sunburst' pattern in the past. at this young stage the patterns are still changing...even one of my Florida's started out as such when small and then changed to look completely 'normal' except for a couple gold scales remaining (we may try to use that one in spawning though, haha).--
--solomon
 
wow nice
 
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