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Farahna Endli "Dabola type"..... that's what I remember them being sold as. Looks like one I got from toyin in 2013/2014.
I've read so many threads and this is what I've always concluded to be, therefore, I just called it a Faranah Dabola. Here's one of your famous post. Which I thought would be linked to this piece. :)

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Here's another pic in mid swim. Plus, the finlets does not resemble most endlis. Which are usually pretty short.
Mine is same type on the hard and soft finlets resembling my nigerian type ansorgii.

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I think this is a polypterus sp. Dabola or sp. Faranah. (same thing).
All of these "Faranah" bichirs: endli,laps and sp.Dabola come from the same area in Faranah. Toyin said "we used to tag them Dabola because we thought that was where they came from based on earlier supplier info".
 
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I think this is a polypterus sp. Dabola.
All of these "Faranah" bichirs: endli,laps and sp.Dabola come from the same area in Faranah. Toyin said "we used to tag them Dabola because we thought that was where they came from based on earlier supplier info".
Hao, thanks for giving us your opinion. Have u seen one with this light color. It's white with a shade of silver/gray tones towards the front? Of course, when I had her on pool filter sand. It was ghostly white.
 

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If this had the typical Dabola head marks and it was more green. I'd be like yah... 'Dabola!' The body markings ive seen resmbles dabola but it's just so light!
 

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Hao, thanks for giving us your opinion. Have u seen one with this light color. It's white with a shade of silver/gray tones towards the front? Of course, when I had her on pool filter sand. It was ghostly white.
I have seen light color Dabola. I'm trying to look for a photo but so far no luck. Did this one always looked like this? Have you tried a different substrate for it?
 

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It's always been whitw. Been in all type of substrate. I just never had black. U know how that goes. It's on red rught now which brings out the markings as much as possible.
 

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It's always been whitw. Been in all type of substrate. I just never had black. U know how that goes. It's on red rught now which brings out the markings as much as possible.
That's not always the case. IME red doesn't always bring out the markings on every poly. BUT for most it does. I've had a handful of Polys that never seem to fully settle down. Always look dark/washed out even tho it was on red sand. It seems like some bichirs just need a different color substrate to pop. My friend had a sp. Dabola on light color(beige/tan) sand but the fish was still really dark(almost black)!
 
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