Spotted Marble Amazon Gar (Boulengerella maculata) Stingray Décor: Minimal heavy structure

Décor: Minimal heavy structure

May refuse non-live food

Ambush predator—prefers hiding spots and structure

Best kept with fish that can hold their own without constant aggression

Spotted Marble Amazon Gar (Boulengerella maculata) Stingray Décor: Minimal heavy structureWhen is a gar not a gar? When its really more of a tetra like with the Marbled Gar. Though it shares a comparable body shape with the true gars, this is the result of these two unrelated fishes having a similarly predatory lifestyle. Both skulk about slowly near the surface of the water, picking off any unwary fish that ventures too closely. But, while the true gars are of an ancient evolutionary stock, Boulengerella is actually a characiform and thus