What Is Your Favorite Gar? Bonus Choice: Bowfin

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Which Is Your Favorite?


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Nice to see that everything has gotten at least one vote. :D
 
Voted tropical gar myself. I prefer the atractosteus genus, and this gar has some of the most variable patterns. Gets to a good size yet the average monster aquarist can house one. Isn't as sensitive as a cuban. All around interesting fish, hope I can find one eventually.
 
Back when I kept a few gars I wasn't sure exactly which species I had as every store here seems to label all of them as alligator gars and I wasn't aware that there were so many different types available...I cast my vote for A.calva.
 
It HAS to be the cuban gar. They are one of the rarest and most beautiful of the gars. i love the creamy colour of it. it just stands out of all the black and silver markings of all the rest of the gar species. BTW, a bowfin isn't in the gar family.
 
It HAS to be the cuban gar. They are one of the rarest and most beautiful of the gars. i love the creamy colour of it. it just stands out of all the black and silver markings of all the rest of the gar species. BTW, a bowfin isn't in the gar family.

Not sure if you read the first post, but I know that. They are the closest living relative to the gar and were added just for fun.
 
The bowfin with its ability to eat things bigger than its own head, makes this fish too cool 'to' school!

Having raised one from a 4" 'fry' to a 15" monster fish that eats from my hand was definitely a rewarding fishkeeping experience! I just wish I had the monster tank to house him right. :irked:
 
Choice:GatorxSpotted hybrid. saw it on solomons web and straight away liked it
 
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