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The famous japanese Albino Lungfish Died..
This fish was the trigger that made me look for albino lungfishes.
I had to look for 2 years before I got my first...and than another year to get the second one....still looking for the third. but back to the point.
I think it was my fav fish in the whole world. I'm not chocked ferry easy..but I hate to see this fish dead...it ended up 12 KG and 110CM.
R.I.P.
MrGuyPerson
11-07-2007, 9:22 AM
Its fins look messed up. Do you know how/why it died?
beeline
11-07-2007, 9:35 AM
Sorry for your loss dude. :cry: That really sucks. I'm sure he had a cool personality as well. I hope you can find another one.
navygirl76
11-07-2007, 9:54 AM
wow-sorry for your loss! in the pic with the dog you can just see how big he really was..
so what happened?
OW it's not mine....it belonged to this japanese GUY it's the fish from the famous lungfish and dog photo.
and TED I don't know how and why it died....but you can tell it did not die on the ground.
It died in it's tank...
but it sure is a shame it did..I think it was unique in it's own kind...I did never see a pic of another lungfish wich even came close...I do believe there is another big albino P Aethiopicus Aethiopicus in the Tokyo tower.
dark_aLLeY
11-07-2007, 10:36 AM
GriF, any idea what lungfish is that ? It's a pity that the lungfish died at such a size. :(
GriF, any idea what lungfish is that ? It's a pity that the lungfish died at such a size. :(
It was a Protopterus Aethiopicus Aethiopicus. (Albino)
neoprodigy
11-14-2007, 12:12 PM
no
you can see that fish is way too fat...
E_americanus
11-14-2007, 1:10 PM
you can see that fish is way too fat...
i agree, way too fat for a typical P.a.aethiopicus, so i would almost question the subspecies as well. regardless, if they opened it up it probably has massive fat bodies surrounding the internal organs. looks very fat and could be stunted too, given it's very stout appearance for a normally elongate lungfish species. definitely sucks that the fish is dead though--
--solomon
Yes... the fish deffinetly looks stunned..(and was way to fat)..it was housed in a 180x45x60 high
I think most people could see this comming..it realy is a shame..here is a pic (for people who have not seen it) of the fish when it was in a better shape and the proportions were better...(please tell me if I post to many pics I'm just a bit of a wh*re for pics)
Yes... the fish deffinetly looks stunned..(and was way to fat)..it was housed in a 8x2x2..
I think most people could see this comming..it realy is a shame..here is a pic (for people who have not seen it) of the fish when it was in a better shape and the proportions were better...(please tell me if I post to many pics I'm just a bit of a wh*re for pics)
Thanks for the pic- a great comparison. I thought he looked like a chubby bratwurst in the first pic. No worries about being a pic wh-re, we love wh-res. Keep them coming- how about some of your albino LFs?
Thanks for the pic- a great comparison. I thought he looked like a chubby bratwurst in the first pic. No worries about being a pic wh-re, we love wh-res. Keep them coming- how about some of your albino LFs?
hahaha thanx Druu .:D... but I think there are enough pics of my 2- lungs in this forum.........but I will update when there are some new developments or something like that.....
E_americanus
11-15-2007, 12:57 AM
albinos always make the ID difficult, but from that earlier pic (the one where it looked "normal") i would say (mainly based on the dorsal fin insertion) that it looks more like an annectens than a P. aethiopicus...that and at 3' an aethiopicus should have more of the characteristic "spooned" head...just my opinion based on observations of the species--
--solomon
Oddball
11-15-2007, 1:15 AM
Is that snowy?
Snowy is an australian lungfish.
albinos always make the ID difficult, but from that earlier pic (the one where it looked "normal") i would say (mainly based on the dorsal fin insertion) that it looks more like an annectens than a P. aethiopicus...that and at 3' an aethiopicus should have more of the characteristic "spooned" head...just my opinion based on observations of the species--
--solomon
Yup I'm with you it is deffinetley difficult to id albinos.
And I can see where you are comming from..when we are talking about the insertion of the dorsal fin and the spoon head....In my oppinion I go for P Aethiopicus Aethiopicus I have notised there is a lot of difference in fysical apparence when we look at.
just look at these.
Greetings the pic wh*re.
p.s. excuse my crappy english..I can explain it better in Dutch
In the first pic you can see his Aethiopicus has no spoon head either.
In the second pic you see an aethiopicus who has it's dorsal fin placed more near the head than we are used to...but does have the nice spoonhead we are talking about.
here is another example
when we look at the dorsla fin..(maybe a better one because this is a P.A.A. instead of an P.A.C. like the second pic in the previous post)
E_americanus
11-15-2007, 10:25 AM
good examples, and i see what you are saying...those reference shots are much more informative than the photos of the albino, i think the angles of the shots in the albino shots (ones where its in the tank) throw things off. i'm not fully convinced, but given the reference shots i would lean more towards P.a.a. than before...that and we don't see many albino annectens for some reason either :) --
--solomon
Bogwoodbruce
11-15-2007, 10:52 AM
Oh man thats horrible at least it wasn't yours.
THANK YOU FOR THIS. IVE JUST ORDERED SOME AETHOPIANS,AND IM SURE ITS THE 2ND EXAMPLE.
sauroid
11-26-2007, 6:18 AM
do albino african lungfish occur in the wild? (i dont know if they are being bred commercially)
do albino african lungfish occur in the wild? (i dont know if they are being bred commercially)
Noop they are not bred commercially..as far as I know all african lungfish come from the wild....I never heard of anyone who is breading them in captivity..
sauroid
11-26-2007, 6:43 AM
so Protopterus species are one of the very few fish that have both albino and normal forms in the wild?
pirarucu319
11-26-2007, 1:16 PM
seriously what a waste..sorry..:(