A question about gator gars teeth?

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the reason i asked i once saw a picture of a large gator gar someone had caught and you could see alot of rows of new smaller teeth coming in . it was a massive gator gar too
 
I think no! but the broken teeth will grow back like in other fish and Alligator!
 
pharmaecopia said:
Wrong. All gars have 2 rows of teeth. The second row is more prominent in the atractosteus genus gars.
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yeah, i wasn't sure if ultimatejay was joking about that or not...he's been around the forum long enough to know the genus rule with the two prominent rows...

getting to the OP - richard and i have noticed plenty of interesting stuff with gar teeth over the years...i'll post some pics of some new skulls i have been dry-preserving over the past few weeks. anyway, i believe they will grow back, but they don't come in smaller-to-larger rows that work in successive replacement like in sharks. those smaller rows of teeth (and there are other terms for the very small teeth) don't grow into large teeth. if you look carefully at a gar skull you will see the prominent single row in LEP genus and two in ATRAC genus, but both genera have multiple rows of smaller teeth.

wild gars tend to have much larger and sharper (in multiple planes) teeth than captive gars, more or less a plastic effect. furthermore, we have caught spotted gars that had such large lower jaw teeth that they grew through the upper jaw, punctured it, and protrude through the top of the snout. we called this the "crocodile effect" in gars. never really see it in captive fish--
--solomon
 
E_americanus said:
yeah, i wasn't sure if ultimatejay was joking about that or not...he's been around the forum long enough to know the genus rule with the two prominent rows...

getting to the OP - richard and i have noticed plenty of interesting stuff with gar teeth over the years...i'll post some pics of some new skulls i have been dry-preserving over the past few weeks. anyway, i believe they will grow back, but they don't come in smaller-to-larger rows that work in successive replacement like in sharks. those smaller rows of teeth (and there are other terms for the very small teeth) don't grow into large teeth. if you look carefully at a gar skull you will see the prominent single row in LEP genus and two in ATRAC genus, but both genera have multiple rows of smaller teeth.

wild gars tend to have much larger and sharper (in multiple planes) teeth than captive gars, more or less a plastic effect. furthermore, we have caught spotted gars that had such large lower jaw teeth that they grew through the upper jaw, punctured it, and protrude through the top of the snout. we called this the "crocodile effect" in gars. never really see it in captive fish--
--solomon
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I think wild gar eat more live fish which giving them more calcium than most of us feed pellets, shrimps,... I also noticed that if I feed fish with teeth like cichild more live feeder, shrimps, they will grow teeth more than when I feed them more pellets.
 
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