imagine "Frankenfish" genetics applied to gars...

[E_americanus]

NOW imagine how big your gator gar could get if we applied the same genetic manipulations on lepisosteids...assuming they would work similarly, you may get your 24" FL gars in less than a year --
--solomon

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39265727/ns/health-food_safety/?gt1=43001&ref=nf

 

[iloveoscars702]

haha just imagen doing that to a neon tetra lol

 

[Hao]

Dam doing that to Aros,Bichirs,Gars,Knifefish,Lungfish would cool but I can't imagine clown loaches!

 

[Delhezi B]

I wonder how that would work with small fish, Just as tetras and and things like that.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

monster gar

 

[Planetnicolas]

rawr monste guppies that would be intense just imagine a 6 inch guppy moster with all the guppy reproductive power

 

[Bosco1025]

From what im getting, The fish is not growing larger than normal, just reaching its maximum size quicker. so i dont really feel it would do much for this "franken-tetra" you guys are wishing for. they just want the time spent caring for and feeding food fish to be minimized for maximum profit.

 

[E_americanus]

From what im getting, The fish is not growing larger than normal, just reaching its maximum size quicker. so i dont really feel it would do much for this "franken-tetra" you guys are wishing for. they just want the time spent caring for and feeding food fish to be minimized for maximum profit.

exactly...it's not going to make little fish into giants, it will just make the fish grow faster than normal.

the possibility therein would be that captive fish MIGHT be able to get closer to wild max sizes (highly doubtful that they could reach them, but who knows), and at the very least grow much faster. in the case of a neon...it might get from .25cm to 2.5cm faster...but we're still talking a 1" fish --
--solomon

 

[E_americanus]

speaking of big salmonids...just had to share this shot from our schools new-student orientation (i help out with the electrofishing every year, and this year we caught the biggest brown trout i've see in person - the river was only about 14' wide too) --
--solomon

 

[Madding]

Very big trout! You don't see them that size in rivers in NY, only lakes.