Spotted gar after 11 weeks of growth

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E_americanus said:
great looking gars, and thanks for posting the updated pics! all that being said, they have quite the interesting pattern...i'll see what Richard thinks of this too. they look pretty atypical of spotted gars we have seen in IL and other locations...do you know what river system/watershed you got them from? that would help with a bit of a mystery.

along those lines, xander, i would be wary of using the photos as representative of the species just yet if i were you--

--solomon
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I've seen that pattern in a spotted gar in a Cabela's near me, they have a tank (about 6000 gallon) with a shortnose, 2 longnose and 5 spotted.
 
These guys are from The Big Muddy River in Union County near Wolf Lake, IL.

The cat in one of the pics was bought as one of the first tank raised Synodontis Granulosis 6-8 years ago. Unfortunately, the ones I got never developed jet black coloration or white tipped fins, and would have to assume they are hybrids. They look nothing like my wild specimen.

Thanks for all the gar comments!!
 
Nice. I havent been able to get down south to fish in years. Always wanted to catch my own Gar.
 
joe00 said:
These guys are from The Big Muddy River in Union County near Wolf Lake, IL.

The cat in one of the pics was bought as one of the first tank raised Synodontis Granulosis 6-8 years ago. Unfortunately, the ones I got never developed jet black coloration or white tipped fins, and would have to assume they are hybrids. They look nothing like my wild specimen.

Thanks for all the gar comments!!
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very interesting, thanks for the info. i'm in the process of discussing this with Richard as we have some thoughts on at least some of the gars...we were sampling down in that region about a year ago and made some collections, which is why some of yours match up with our collections...but there are a few other details/clarifications we will likely make soon. nice fishes reGARdless!--
--solomon
 
richard and i chatted about this - throughout the series on these gars there have been multiple shots of multiple individuals, but not necessarily consistently represented through all the threads. at least one (if not more) of the fish we are seeing here is most likely a shortnose gar (matches up with SNGs we brought back from the same region) --
--solomon
 
There are 10 gar in the tank and as you have noticed, I have just been shooting pics of any fish towards the front of the tank seeming photogenic at the time. Any chance of the 2 slower growing fish with an appearance of having a much more striped pattern being the Shortnose? Where these were collected we saw Spotted, Shortnose, and Longnose all living together.
 
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