Albino Golden Florida Gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) Keychain helps it to navigate

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Juvenile coloration fades into a more subdued adult look

Why We Love Them

This is a very colorful and hardy South American cichlid

Locals dry these fish and use them for firewood

Albino Golden Florida Gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) Keychain helps it to navigateThis is a rare albino color morph. This is the newest color morph available. The eyes are translucent pink and the body is slight shiny yellow. Gars are relatively passive, seemingly sluggish solitary fish, but voracious ambush predators. They are opportunistic night predators and are primarily piscivores, but they will also ambush and eat water fowl and small mammals that may be floating on the surface.