spotted gar OR flordia gar???

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well tell you what, what you see if a fish that specifically ordered in for the royal saskatchewan museum and is 10 years old and I can assure you it is not a florida gar as the museum was very precise in getting exactly what they display. I would suppose the museum staff know the difference between a florida and a spotted gar I just wish I knew how to spell the title of the museum staffer who built this wing of the r.s.m. I just don't want to mispell it lololol

i have seen fish that are mislabeled at public aquarium, and they aren't even as hard to distinguish or as similar looking as florida and spotted gars. it's probably not a common occurrence, but it does happen.

not saying whether your museum is correct or not, but just because it labels it as spotted doesn't automatically mean they are correct. i've been to aquariums where they have 'spotted' gars, but chances are they're probably florida from what i learn, as most can't tell the two species apart, and automatically call them 'spotted' because they have spots.

 

[chefjamesscott]

FOUR WORDS

FIELD COLLECTED CANADIAN SPECIMEN wned:

all in good humour of course

and since I find it hard to believe that someone from florida was up here I am pretty sure the museum got a native canadian specimen for their troubles when they brought it in from eastern canada

 

[Gar keeper]

I am growing out the two baby gars that I dont know if they are spotted or florida.

Trust me when I say they are Floridas. Solomon has taught me that there are no Spotted Gar. Everything is a Florida.

 

[chefjamesscott]

ummmm that is not true my friend the gar in eastern canada may be rare and few and far between but I assure you they are not florida gar

though very well the ones I just bought to grow out most probably are because they come from the pet trade, but the 10 year old museum specimen did not come from the pet trade

anyways a gar is a gar is a gar and they rock

 

[chefjamesscott]

AH it's vewwy vewwy vewwy quiet YOU GUY'S ARE HUNTING WABBITS ARN'T YOU

 

[Gar keeper]

anyways a gar is a gar is a gar and they rock

Except for the Alligator Gar, they are in a category all to themselves.

 

[chefjamesscott]

as the mouse in your avatar so found out eh

 

[Gar keeper]

as the mouse in your avatar so found out eh

A wide variety of gods creatures have felt the wrath of the great, powerful and majestic Gator Gar

I can't wait till he's bigger so I can feed him kittens and guinea pigs.
Then one day I can finally feed him my neighbors chihuahua

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

chef, urs is museum orderd. i was refuring to store bought spotted gars. most of the ones in home aquaria are floridas. unless wild caught
and gar keeper.....
im leaving this one alone. ur in ur own little world

 

[Tom500]

patterns rarely help with iding a gar of this species. they vary so greatly and r so closly alike. unless urs is wil caught and u can provide were i can almost guarentee that it is a florida. urs and this one. lus this does not look like a spotted. 99% sure its not

I agree i bought an aligator gar as a florida because it had the markings of a florida and i didnt know much about gas then so didnt see the very obvious snout of a gator!