Price on different gars

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djr83

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I would like prices on these gars at about 10":

Cuban gar
Tropical gar
Longnose gar
Xanthic gar (any kind)
Platinum gar (any kind)
Some kind of hybrid, like Crocodile gar

I wont buy them directly from the US so the prices will probably not be correct for me, but at least I can get something to compare to.
 
Cuban gars and tropical gars will probably be cheaper for you than in the U.S. although the sizes you want will probably make them the about same price as a smaller one here. I know that the tropical gars that Stones Aquarium in Singapore brought in last year were way cheaper than the ones that were brought in to the U.S. a little bit after that; they also typically have Cuban gars for at least half of what we would pay here.

Longnose gars haven't been commonly offered for sale in the U.S. for a little bit now as the only supplier that I know of went out of business. I ordered some through an LFS last year, and they unfortunately turned out to be Florida gars.

I have only come across a few morph gars for sale here in the U.S. in the past few years, and they've sold in the upper hundreds to lower thousands (USD) depending on their size & morph. Most morphs available are in Florida gars & alligator gars, but morph longnose gars & tropical gars are out there, too. The tropical gar farm that I know of has had white tropical gars for sale for the past few seasons.

Good luck on hybrid gars considering that they're nonexistent in today's market to my knowledge. If you do manage to find one, it will probably be a Croc III (longnose gar x alligator gar). You might get lucky and find a mislabeled one for sale, but that's going to be a one in at least a billion chance.

All in all, your best bet is to check out the prices in some other country such as Singapore in order to get a better idea as to what you're looking at as far as gar prices outside of the U.S. go.
 
But how much do a cuban and a tropical (about 10") go for in the US? Need that for comparison.

I would take any morph I could get, but optimal would probably be a white tropical. What would they go for?

Is it easy to find any of these fishes in Singapore? Would you know a specific farm? I'm getting a few fishes from there in a few months.
 
But how much do a cuban and a tropical (about 10") go for in the US? Need that for comparison.

I would take any morph I could get, but optimal would probably be a white tropical. What would they go for?

Is it easy to find any of these fishes in Singapore? Would you know a specific farm? I'm getting a few fishes from there in a few months.

Cubans have been sold in the $300-500 range depending on who you got them from and what size they were; tropical gars were going for $250+ the last time that I checked. PM me on the white tropical gar.

I do not know of specific farms and such in Singapore; I just know that their prices are typically far less than the prices in the U.S., and the more interesting morphs pop up far more often. From my understanding, gars are farmed far more extensively in Asia than in the U.S., and the prices reflect that trend.
 
Cuban gars and tropical gars will probably be cheaper for you than in the U.S. although the sizes you want will probably make them the about same price as a smaller one here. I know that the tropical gars that Stones Aquarium in Singapore brought in last year were way cheaper than the ones that were brought in to the U.S. a little bit after that; they also typically have Cuban gars for at least half of what we would pay here.

Longnose gars haven't been commonly offered for sale in the U.S. for a little bit now as the only supplier that I know of went out of business. I ordered some through an LFS last year, and they unfortunately turned out to be Florida gars.

I have only come across a few morph gars for sale here in the U.S. in the past few years, and they've sold in the upper hundreds to lower thousands (USD) depending on their size & morph. Most morphs available are in Florida gars & alligator gars, but morph longnose gars & tropical gars are out there, too. The tropical gar farm that I know of has had white tropical gars for sale for the past few seasons.

Good luck on hybrid gars considering that they're nonexistent in today's market to my knowledge. If you do manage to find one, it will probably be a Croc III (longnose gar x alligator gar). You might get lucky and find a mislabeled one for sale, but that's going to be a one in at least a billion chance.

All in all, your best bet is to check out the prices in some other country such as Singapore in order to get a better idea as to what you're looking at as far as gar prices outside of the U.S. go.

RE: hybrids - if you did find one (and this is highly unlikely), it would be a Croc I, not a Croc III...the only Croc III's we know of exist in the wild and also at Shedd Aquarium from a captive spawning event (no hormones used). Croc I (SNG x ALG) were produced around 2003-2004 and very very few are still alive...one of the last i knew of was going to be purchased by me in 2009, but it died shortly before transport (still took the specimen though - on ice).

good luck--
--solomon
 
RE: hybrids - if you did find one (and this is highly unlikely), it would be a Croc I, not a Croc III...the only Croc III's we know of exist in the wild and also at Shedd Aquarium from a captive spawning event (no hormones used). Croc I (SNG x ALG) were produced around 2003-2004 and very very few are still alive...one of the last i knew of was going to be purchased by me in 2009, but it died shortly before transport (still took the specimen though - on ice).

good luck--
--solomon

Wouldn't the Croc III's would be the most easily obtainable ones at this point, though, considering that they occur naturally throughout their range? Someone has to have collected some, or maybe they have tried breeding them here or in Asia, right? Or are hybrids pretty much a nonexistent thing for farms nowadays? Maybe I'm overly focusing on the apparent ease of making such a hybrid naturally, though...
 
Wouldn't the Croc III's would be the most easily obtainable ones at this point, though, considering that they occur naturally throughout their range? Someone has to have collected some, or maybe they have tried breeding them here or in Asia, right? Or are hybrids pretty much a nonexistent thing for farms nowadays? Maybe I'm overly focusing on the apparent ease of making such a hybrid naturally, though...

no hybrid is easily obtainable, as you know, so it's all relative. but in terms of ones that are obtainable, the Croc I is still the only one we know that is out there in the trade (or at least was)...NO ONE has a croc III outside of Shedd, and they aren't found "throughout their range"...i.e. just because gators and longnose coexist doesn't mean that there are Croc III's there; they actually have a pretty limited known range.

like any other hybrid, they could be produced, but no one is doing it and there isn't really a market for them. so hybrids are practically non-existent in the trade at this time--
--solomon
 
no hybrid is easily obtainable, as you know, so it's all relative. but in terms of ones that are obtainable, the Croc I is still the only one we know that is out there in the trade (or at least was)...NO ONE has a croc III outside of Shedd, and they aren't found "throughout their range"...i.e. just because gators and longnose coexist doesn't mean that there are Croc III's there; they actually have a pretty limited known range.

like any other hybrid, they could be produced, but no one is doing it and there isn't really a market for them. so hybrids are practically non-existent in the trade at this time--
--solomon

Ah, okay. I thought that the Croc III's were somewhat common on account of the seemingly high frequency of them being caught by fisherman; then again, these websites are probably just highlighting the fact that people are catching these oddballs in order to get business.

Speaking of Shedd, didn't they lose most of their Croc III's at a young age as a result of cannibalism?
 
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