damn! anyway, thanks alot guys! is it normal that it always stays on the surface? like hanging in there? he seems docile. my RTC kinda harasses him when food is served, he even jumped out of the water.
MY NEW FLORIDA GAR, I NEED SOME CONFIRMATION
- Thread starter peewee
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peewee;3751671; said:
first question is answered here:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=290763
ans to the second question can be found here:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=228798&highlight=rtc
the last statement would be unnecessary if you had read this:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=204928&highlight=jumping
hope the links help. peewee i'm not busting on you, i've made more than my fair share of mistakes, and it was all because i failed to do the proper research. just trying to share how much time, energy and work can be saved if one would just search for & read the vast amount of gar related info available on this site and over at AP.
xander;3751789; said:
man it's all good, i thank you for all the info and effort in taking time to explain and share the complexities of keeping a gar. nevertheless, i'll exert all effort to make my gar happy and safe even though i never expexted that it was an alligator gar.
I know this is gonna sound weird, but I could tell it was a Gator Gar by the eyes. I know this isn't a main way to tell, but im sure Sol knows what I am talking about. It seems to me that the actratacous species have like double ringed eyes or something. There is something about the eyes.
Spatula;3755661; said:
it's true; i won't try to type up an elaborate explanation right now, but the eyes do look different between the two genera. the pupils tend to be somewhat smaller in Atract and seem to fill out more of the eye in Lepisosteus. this is more easily seen in Cubans & gators than the tropicals, since the last of that group tends to have more pattern, and therefore may have that lateral stripe through the eye which looks more like Lepisosteus gars.--
--solomon
thats interesting. now i going to go look through a bunch of pictures untill i figure that little trick out. lol.
Lepisosteus platyrhincus;3755731; said:
head shots, photos, and illustrations on Lep.net have some good examples from which to observe these characters--
--solomon
