My new pick up - Cuban Gar

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Here's a very nice tropical gar. It's an adult so the coloration is in full bloom but the tail has a very nice patter to it. A bit different than an adult cuban but as a juvi it is very close.

scan1.jpg
 
hey how was slanted to supposed to know. its not his fault for having a crappy pix. also say you just picked him up then why are you showing older pics? why not show some new ones instead -_-
 
rumble: awesome cuban! i would love to have one if only they don't get that big :( well i guess im happy with my tropicals LOL which is my fave species, followed very closely by cubans :) good luck with the gar and the cobra sh. i hope the snakehead doesn't give you trouble.

it seems even as juvenile, cubans are pretty much patternless except for the lateral stripes. but juv tropicals do tend to have dotted pattern on the back.
 
I didn't want to detract from rumble's thread by posting the picture. Point of fact, the pic is of an adult tropical gar, not an alligator gar. The top pic is a juvi tropical gar, the bottom( the one pictured) is an adult tropical gar. I was trying to show the similarities in the tail between the cuban and tropical gar and I thought posting one of the pictures of a tropical gar in Kodera's book would do nicely. At any rate, I think next time I will just say "nice gar" like everybody else. . . .
 
MonsterFishKeepers.com