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Marble gar food.
The name lepisosteus is greek for bony scale.
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Gars are piscivores fish eaters sometimes it is best to raise live bearing fish to produce live food source for gar and proven to be cheaper long term as pet store quality feeder fish can transfer disease to your gar.
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Using small teeth the gar grabs the victim and chews it a bit before swallowing.
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The spotted gar lepisosteus oculatus is a freshwater fish native to north america that has an abundance of dark spots on its head fins and dart like body.
Marble gar boulengerella maculata 19 99 29 99 a unique predatory characin found throughout much of the amazon basin the marble gar is commonly found in small groups at the surface of shallow water in the wild where they hunt for shoals of smaller fish and insects.
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The marble gar is an ambush predator relying on the spotted and striped pattern to blend into the background as he or she slowly maneuvers near the victim before he or she strikes.
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Your marble gar s skin is covered by a protective coat of hard diamond shaped scales making him impenetrable to predator fish.
It is one of the smallest of the seven species of gar found in north america growing 2 3 ft 0 61 0 91 m in length and weighing 4.
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These fish do well in shoals groups and tend to dwell on the upper levels of the tank.
With their long toothy snout marble gar are primarily piscivores or fish eating.
Spotted gar have an elongated mouth with many needle like teeth to catch other fish and crustaceans.
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Marbled gar boulengerella maculata other common names for this fish.
Spotted gar or spotted pike characin.
