My new WC Polypterus senwgalus TURKANA and Sp.ONIGO

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I will try to breed senegalus with this Turkana one in next year!
I will keep update
Amazing pick up and quite the trip going there.

Thank you for sharing this. Awesome for this site to have a member with these rare bichirs. We are all living vicariously through you on these so no holding back on pictures.
 
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Amazing pick up and quite the trip going there.

Thank you for sharing this. Awesome for this site to have a member with these rare bichirs. We are all living vicariously through you on these so no holding back on pictures.
Hopefully this will be like the wild caught sengalus that Hendre Hendre has and we will drool over them for a couple months then toyin will get them in
 
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This is interesting, I've never seen sens like that before. Certainly bulky and big, these should end up thicker. The Niger fish I own is much more slender than a captive bred fish of a similar size. And this Turkana fish appears to be bigger than tank raised or Niger Senegal bichirs, the largest Niger import size was 30-35cm. So obviously these are a good bit bigger, I'd love to see pics!

T thefredpit maybe he's stalking me haha. I've found the growth on the WC to be a bit slower than my CB, but it's growing bit by bit.

giseok jung giseok jung what do you feed your bichirs? :)
 

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That's awesome these are almost impossible to find in the hobby. So, i really hope you keep us updated on this guy. Also, the PBB as well.
I will try to breed senegalus with this Turkana one in next year!
I will keep updateㄷ
This is interesting, I've never seen sens like that before. Certainly bulky and big, these should end up thicker. The Niger fish I own is much more slender than a captive bred fish of a similar size. And this Turkana fish appears to be bigger than tank raised or Niger Senegal bichirs, the largest Niger import size was 30-35cm. So obviously these are a good bit bigger, I'd love to see pics!

T thefredpit maybe he's stalking me haha. I've found the growth on the WC to be a bit slower than my CB, but it's growing bit by bit.

giseok jung giseok jung what do you feed your bichirs? :)
I feed frozen roach fish, hikari sinking pellet and frozen cow heart!
And sometimes with vitamins
 

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This is interesting, I've never seen sens like that before. Certainly bulky and big, these should end up thicker. The Niger fish I own is much more slender than a captive bred fish of a similar size. And this Turkana fish appears to be bigger than tank raised or Niger Senegal bichirs, the largest Niger import size was 30-35cm. So obviously these are a good bit bigger, I'd love to see pics!

T thefredpit maybe he's stalking me haha. I've found the growth on the WC to be a bit slower than my CB, but it's growing bit by bit.

giseok jung giseok jung what do you feed your bichirs? :)

Hendre Hendre Im not sure if you have seen this but the turkana senegals are giants.

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/we-need-more-of-these.478225/#post-5766390

check out this post
 

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So where these brought in by toyin for Japan?
 
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