Spotted gar after 11 weeks of growth

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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.

Shortnose gars generally have very fast growth rates in comparison to the other Lepisosteus gars, so I'd wager that the shortnose gar(s) that you have are some of the larger ones. Solomon and Richard can definitely provide way more input on the matter, though.

Maybe if you're lucky you'll have some hybrids, but at this point that's purely speculation fueled by the presence of those three gar species living together.
 
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