E_americanus;4396988; said:i would advise, however, and i think Richard and i will surely discuss this more in person next time we meet up, is that experimentation with gar setups at that (at this point theoretical) level would have to be species-specific (or at least sister-groups), therefore the "mish-mash" of gar species that most of us keep would not be ideal for experimentation...a Cuban reacts differently to some conditions than a spotted gar and differently than a shortnose gar.
unfortunately for most of us (from a hobbyist perspective), we like keeping many different species of gars together (and even then we sometime like to mix the assemblage up with other out-groups).
the benefits are that there may be more progress made to more captive spawning in species-specific tanks, and maybe some more about behavior (although captive behavioral observations with fish that are so large in the wild are often incomparable on most levels). the draw-backs are that we'd really need to start keeping a large tank of all-spotteds, or all shortnose or all Cubans to start to get at useful information.
that being said, if you want to participate, start saving up that money for the big species-only tanks and then we can have you do some of our work for us--
--solomon
i'll post more when im not slightly hungover...but i'm actually fine with converting my tank into an all cuban tank for this
