Hello, this is my first post. If this has been discussed frequently before, excuse my ignorance. A fish caught my eye the other day on h2oaquatics, called a white tropical gar. It looked awesome.. anyway I was informed that they didn't grow very large and were quite pricey. Any personal information on them??
White tropical gar
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because they are excessively "pampered" on the farms when they are discovered, they tend to develop an unusually high amount of fat bodies which make them more prone to idiopathic (unexplained) death. this was further supported when a few died several years ago and we did a necropsy on one (others were in same condition based on external observation).
captive gars tend to develop quite a bit of fat compared to wild (which is to be expected), but these unusual color patterns are often babied even moreso, which can lead to an even more sensitive fish. cool fish if you can afford the price tag, although i do tend to prefer most of the natural patterns of these fish.--
--solomon
captive gars tend to develop quite a bit of fat compared to wild (which is to be expected), but these unusual color patterns are often babied even moreso, which can lead to an even more sensitive fish. cool fish if you can afford the price tag, although i do tend to prefer most of the natural patterns of these fish.--
--solomon
Those two white tropicals are long since sold, by the way. I have not seen any surface in the hobby in years. Platinum gator gars, on the other hand, are now being bred in Indonesia and entering the hobby at a more mainstream level.
the white tropicals are regularly available from farms in Mexico, it's just a matter of importation fees, etc etc. their base price is usually around $3500-5000 --
--solomon
--solomon
Lepisosteus platyrhincus;4234841; said:
It took me about a year to complete the transaction for the golden gar. There is no harm in beginning to look for the next conquest now - I couldn't dream of affording it for another year at best.
