i know it goes a bit off topic but i figured i would respond (and keep the thread going) - yeah, i knew the amphibius expired, it actually died many years ago...2006 i believe. it had developed some problems with (likely) a protozoan infection and oddball and i did the best we could to treat the little guy, but it didn't pan out. apparently the species is prone to some susceptibilities to water quality that most other lungfishes are not, but this is just blurb information from the Jurassic Fishes book (which is quite outdated with a lot of its info - great book still).Wiggles92;4740973; said:Thanks, Solomon.
Unfortunately that P. amphibius isn't alive any more as we found out earlier in the thread, so I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there are few, if any, left in the U.S.
--Ah, that's the one you told me about before that you sent to Oddball when you decided to split up your lungfish collection.E_americanus;4742751; said:i know it goes a bit off topic but i figured i would respond (and keep the thread going) - yeah, i knew the amphibius expired, it actually died many years ago...2006 i believe. it had developed some problems with (likely) a protozoan infection and oddball and i did the best we could to treat the little guy, but it didn't pan out. apparently the species is prone to some susceptibilities to water quality that most other lungfishes are not, but this is just blurb information from the Jurassic Fishes book (which is quite outdated with a lot of its info - great book still).
the photos on primitivefishes.com in the amphibius lungfish section are all of this particular specimen in question. was pretty active when small for an African lungfish! hopefully we will see more in the future, definitely a species i would like to get a hold of again. it's path to me was: Africa - Japan - Singapore - USA
--solomon
