Albino annectens ?

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Very cool fish. I looked for years for an albino annectens, because of their shorter snouts and shorter thick bodies, but I had no luck. It is very unique indeed. But how do you know for sure it's an annectens at this size, hope it is, and please keep us updated with he growth.

Great find!
 
Very cool fish. I looked for years for an albino annectens, because of their shorter snouts and shorter thick bodies, but I had no luck. It is very unique indeed. But how do you know for sure it's an annectens at this size, hope it is, and please keep us updated with he growth.

Great find!
 
I think it is annectens because its front flippers are very short, its body shape looks exactly like my others annectens, it has about two feet nd is very peaceful with other fish, its behaviour very similar to my other annectens (including a female of three feet and twelve years) and totally different do aethiopicus, but really just lets make sure it stops growinig with 2,5- 3 feet.
 
Would love to see more pics of different angles, and even pics of your 12 year old female, if possible. This is very exciting. Please tell me more about why you think it's a female and not a male too.
 
pola said:
I think it is annectens because its front flippers are very short, its body shape looks exactly like my others annectens, it has about two feet nd is very peaceful with other fish, its behaviour very similar to my other annectens (including a female of three feet and twelve years) and totally different do aethiopicus, but really just lets make sure it stops growinig with 2,5- 3 feet.
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Sorry to derail but Did I read correctly, your Annectens is peaceful? I haven’t been able to keep my annectens with anything. They slowly eat all their tankmates. And I have the opposite experience with the aethiopicus. I have the Aethiopicus with angels, datnoids, bichirs etc no problem. I even keep a breeding colony of mosquito fish in another aethiopicus tank and the colony is slowly growing.

Back on topic. They do look similar when smaller and like u said only way to tell 100% is to see if it stops growing lol. But seeing as how you have so many it sounds like you might have a pretty good idea of how to Id it. When I had the two species I thought it was pretty clear that the annectens was thicker, shorter snout, and the snout pointed downwards rather than upwards...but then again my lungfish experience is only 5 lungfish and only 2 species.

Samaka said:
Would love to see more pics of different angles, and even pics of your 12 year old female, if possible. This is very exciting. Please tell me more about why you think it's a female and not a male too.
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Plus one on this. Would love to sex my lungfish and maybe try my hand at breeding them...so far haven’t seen any videos of pairs or anyone breeding them naturally outside of African fisheries online.
 
I create protopterus has a long time, these photo are of some of them, like the female annectens (much bigger and with roe) and the dolloi albino.... also i put a photo of the leucistic SAL
 
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