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I was looking around in a fish store on Beechnut in Chinatown, and found these guys for sale. The tank called them "gar" which I seriously doubt they are. They *kind of* look like a wrestling halfbeak or a pike livebearer, which I've only seen in pictures, but not sure.
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They look like Pike Killifish to me
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they look like spotted Gar fry to meNothing Kills Evil Like a Sharp Stick...Comment
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they are spotted gar fry according to troung, bu they are pike charachins to be accurateELOS 120 - Retroculus Xinguensis, Geogphagus Neambi
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Wow, three different people, three different answers, makes me feel better about not being able to identify them at first glance. I looked up "pike killifish" and it is the same species as "pike livebearer", Belonesox belizanus. And "killifish" seems to be a misnomer, as the males have a gonopodium like their fellow Poecillids. I don't remember seeing any gonopodia on any fish in the tank, and don't see any in the picture, but that doesn't mean they aren't pike livebearers, maybe they were just mostly females. I'm leaning heavily toward thinking they are pike livebearers, as they look a lot more like that than they do the pictures of pike characins. I'm pretty sure they are not juvenile gars. Since I see from the scientific name they are from Belize, where my wife and I honeymooned, and they can handle brackish, I might put them in my brackish tank. Reading up on them, they sound peaceful enough.Comment
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Big fish is right.Nothing Kills Evil Like a Sharp Stick...Comment
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Ok, I can find one picture of a pike characin that does look like these guys, but all the other pictures look quite different. Are there several species?Originally posted by troy tucker View Post
As for it being a "spotted gar", It's obviously not a member of the Lepisosteidae family, and I think that is a misnomer that we as fish hobbyists should be trying to dispell.Last edited by Reefmonkey; 07-15-2015, 05:35 PM.Comment
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no, just one species, but they grow very large very quickly so most pics online are of semi adults when they begin turning to the greenish adult background color.
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Ctenolucius hujetaELOS 120 - Retroculus Xinguensis, Geogphagus Neambi
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OK, you convinced me, that pic definitely looks like these guys. Looks like it won't be good in my brackish tank.Originally posted by BIG FISH View PostComment
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