New Fish...

[E_americanus]

here's a shot of one of our new additions from a recent field trip/conference. Richard, myself, and another friend of ours road-tripped it down to Louisiana for the 3rd International Meeting on Lepisosteid Research & Management, where i presented on the recent experiments we have been running.

will likely add more pics as i am able to process them. the meeting was a blast; plenty of talks on gar management and aquaculture, and we also we able to eat some alligator gar (great stuff).

 

[gazelle]

sorry dont personally keep gars so what kind is it?

it looks great btw

 

[E_americanus]

not sure why the thread was moved before discussion could be started...the whole media lounge concept is generally obstructive and annoying. thanks for inquiring about it first mods.--

 

[benzjamin13]

Unless I see a discussion off the bat, I only see pictures.

 

[E_americanus]

Unless I see a discussion off the bat, I only see pictures.

sometimes it takes time for a discussion to form, in many cases a preemptive move to the media lounge impedes this. that and i've been on forum long enough to know the general format of the threads...if i was just going to post pics with nothing else i would have just put it in the media lounge.

patience with moving threads can be useful in forum management--
--solomon

 

[xander]

so whats special about this new fish? sounds like you guys had fun, im still wanting to try gator gar!

ps: where are pics of the old fish??

 

[Madding]

What a tiny little snout!

 

[E_americanus]

What a tiny little snout!

the snout does start out quite small, but gets progressively longer as the fish develops (and it does this pretty fast). you can gauge how soon cannibalism is coming by tracking snout length.

xander - the new fish is from a special population that we are tracking...unfortunately there is more than one species present there, so we really don't know what the exact species is on this bad boy...yet.--
--solomon

 

[Red Devil]

He is a cool fish...

 

[Jakob]

Very nice Sol. Always nice to see pics from you.