Spotted Marble Amazon Gar (Boulengerella maculata) Stingray Excellent ambush predator—will hover motionless

Excellent ambush predator—will hover motionless before striking

Generally calm but may eat very small tank mates

It seems to prefer peaty water with a rather low temperature for its tropical range

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

make them all white with black eyes

Spotted Marble Amazon Gar (Boulengerella maculata) Stingray Excellent ambush predator—will hover motionlessWhen 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