Good deal or not?
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Price depends on species and location (Local rarity)....
Buyer beware though, most if not all gars are misidentified as the wrong species. Get a Positive ID before buying, especially if the fish is over $30..
Buyer beware though, most if not all gars are misidentified as the wrong species. Get a Positive ID before buying, especially if the fish is over $30..
Yea my LFS has 2 "alligator gars" but i dont believe it. they are covered in plack spots. do alligators gars have black spot when juvenile? they ar about 6 inches. or do u think they r spotted gars?
$55 seems a little high but, you'd pay more for shipping on an lesser priced one. Also, true gator gars have been scarce lately so, $55 for a good size proven specimen may be the smart move. Here are a couple of pics (Photos C.Yulo) of a young gator gar of the same length. Note the wide rostrum and double row of upper teeth.
Not trying to run up your fish bill but, if the look of the gator gar is what you're after (wide rostrum/multiple teeth rows, etc), there's Atractosteus tropicus or tropical gar. They resemble the gator gar and only grow to max 4ft (instead of the gator gars 9ft and up). In captivity, they all but stop growing at about the 18" mark (per all the current owners that post about trops). They're only hindrance to ownership is that their starting price can be around $150. Here's one of my 5 trops:
