PIC of BABY ALLIGATOR GAR

[SumoNinja]

Kind of similar to what I was going to say.... These fish are not difficult to ID if you do a 20 second google Image search...

But for the hell of it these are fish in the range your talking about:

Copyright: Isreal Iracheta (TotheGars)

Coloration is variable so do not expect all of them to look exactly like this look at the Morphologic characteristics of the fish....

The image can't be viewed. I'm saying that I have 2 spotted gars (THESE ARE SPOTTED GARS RIGHT?? COMFIRM PLEASE). And I'm also saying that the one i saw looks different at 3". I'm already almost sure it's a gator but just wanted confirmation with a picture that's all.

Here's a couple pics of my spotteds, one is about 10" and one is about 7". When the 7" was about 3.5" it looked different from the supposed "gator" gar I just saw at the lfs

 

[KaraJo]

yes, those are both spotted/florida gar

 

[demjor19]

yes they are for sure florida/spotted gar.

get a picture and we will confirm it...otherwise we could show you pics all day and not know what it really is.

anyway...here is a link to a pretty small one from primitivefishes.com (hope you don't mind solomon).
http://www.primitivefishes.com/garabouttoeat.jpg

get a pic of the one you saw if you want a possitive id though.

 

[SumoNinja]

yes they are for sure florida/spotted gar.

get a picture and we will confirm it...otherwise we could show you pics all day and not know what it really is.

anyway...here is a link to a pretty small one from primitivefishes.com (hope you don't mind solomon).
http://www.primitivefishes.com/garabouttoeat.jpg

get a pic of the one you saw if you want a possitive id though.

yea, i gotta go get a pic, planning to go back to the lfs monday. was hoping someone one here would have a baby pic but it's cool. the head looks like the head of the picture you provided. again, i'm sure the baby I saw is a gator, just want to get a pic to comfirm it on here

 

[Polypterus]

yea, i gotta go get a pic, planning to go back to the lfs monday. was hoping someone one here would have a baby pic but it's cool. the head looks like the head of the picture you provided. again, i'm sure the baby I saw is a gator, just want to get a pic to comfirm it on here

Well I'm not sure why the pic I posted is not showing (even though it is showing on My computer.... Whatever).... but you can find the very same one here.. http://aquaticpredators.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18977 post 23 page 3....

 

[E_americanus]

yes they are for sure florida/spotted gar.

get a picture and we will confirm it...otherwise we could show you pics all day and not know what it really is.

anyway...here is a link to a pretty small one from primitivefishes.com (hope you don't mind solomon).
http://www.primitivefishes.com/garabouttoeat.jpg

get a pic of the one you saw if you want a possitive id though.

no problem jordan, feel free to post links/cited pics from the site; it's there to help in situations like these.

as for "baby" gator gars, you'll rarely see them smaller than the individuals that are pictured on the primitivefishes.com site (at least the juvenile pics that are up there that i had sent you) or the pics polypterus has posted here. they really look the same for the most part whether they are 3" long or 5" long at that stage.

if the fish doesn't look like what we've referenced, then it's not a gator gar. personally, i'd be surprised (not saying its out of the question) if gators that smaller were popping up, as i have never seen a 3" gator at any store, they were always about 5" min--
--solomon

 

[rednhot]

SVANG55 nice pics but be careful
my dog characin(Acestrorhynchus falcatus) was in with my spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) just like yours are. when the gar out grew the dog characin by meerly 2 inches it became lunch, and this was the day before it was to be picked up by a prospective buyer. the falcatus was 7 inches long.
you could still clearly see the outline of the meal in the gars stomach...i wanted to cry!

---Art

 

[xander]

if you had read up a bit on gars or asked anyone here you would have known it would be a bad idea

 

[demjor19]

SVANG55 nice pics but be careful
my dog characin(Acestrorhynchus falcatus) was in with my spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) just like yours are. when the gar out grew the dog characin by meerly 2 inches it became lunch, and this was the day before it was to be picked up by a prospective buyer. the falcatus was 7 inches long.
you could still clearly see the outline of the meal in the gars stomach...i wanted to cry!

---Art

mine did this to an 8 or 9 inch spotted pike characin... not a good mix. sadly enough i actually liked that fish. noob mistake.

 

[SumoNinja]

no problem jordan, feel free to post links/cited pics from the site; it's there to help in situations like these.

as for "baby" gator gars, you'll rarely see them smaller than the individuals that are pictured on the primitivefishes.com site (at least the juvenile pics that are up there that i had sent you) or the pics polypterus has posted here. they really look the same for the most part whether they are 3" long or 5" long at that stage.

if the fish doesn't look like what we've referenced, then it's not a gator gar. personally, i'd be surprised (not saying its out of the question) if gators that smaller were popping up, as i have never seen a 3" gator at any store, they were always about 5" min--
--solomon

In socal, 3" gator gar is not totally unusual. In socal, I've come to learn that nothing is unusual,............ illegal or not,............ just making a statement. That's just how it is down here,............ There's some kind of gar in every other store. Every 2-3 stores you find will have red belly pirhanas,............ anyways, i've said too much already,.........