Bichirs: Introduction

[jebus]

From lake chad
looks very much like those from nigeria to me
excet lower lip not as "thick"

[jebus]

from ginia
stripes are not very distinct and "fuzzy"
got the normal brown scales within the black bars
eyes really look stark with the whitish colouration surrounding the pupil

[jebus]

from ghana
base colour mixes into the black pattern
bars seem to be thicker for such endlicheris

[jebus]

there are also other locality of collection for endlicheri
but it seems that volta which was commonly described as a place to collect yield little good looking pictures
if u have a volta endli pic
do share

[jebus]

some jappy bred endlicheri





and some indon bred

[jebus]

my indon bred endlicheri
very first few batch
now big !

notice that the new batch of indon endlicheri are inferior

[Tustar]

just a link which show sizes of diff bichir

http://www.polypterus.info/keeping_polypterus.htm

[amiidae]

"Finally I could shoot some shots of true 'bichir bichir' recently

Here are some.
There are about 60-70 real 'Poly bichir bichir' in Japan. But this variant are only one of Two in Japan.
This guy shows this crazy pattern all time and we call this var 'full color bichir bichir'
"

permission granted by Seiichi Hamada to post his pic here.. a 2 footer specimen

The true P. Bichir bichir

[amiidae]

"Here are two pics of another one collected at the same time about 2 month ago" by Seiichi

[amiidae]

"Finally true Polypterus ansorgii were imported to Japan.
I got an opportunity to take photos. Japanese most famous magazine is going to introduce this fish on the next issue." by Seiichi

P.ansorgii was about 12.5".