Ok im new to the bichir life and i dont know the shortened names
Any1 know alot about bichers
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Oh! Just be careful and don't end up with an endlicheri. The lower jaw should terminate before the upper does. As for pattern and color they are close but faces are completely different.
We usually refer to bichirs by their scientific name, as it's more accurate than common names like armored bichir, marbled bichir, curvier bichir, etc...
When someone says they have a nile bichir, you have to think for a moment, or possibly even look up the scientific name to know what it is, but when they say they bought a pbb, then you know why they're using ramen as a size comparison.
A big part of entering the polypterus addiction is just memorizing scientific names. After that just a few other minor things, like the difference between uj and lj, compatibility, diet, tank size, etc... It's all pretty simple.
Yeah, right. I've been reading bichir threads for over a year and I still don't know what pbb actually stands for.
Then you're doing it wrong. A decent portion of the active poly member/addictsa have at least one Polypterus Bichir Bichir and talk about them on a semi regular basis.
One of the biggest reasons for the common names not carrying their weight in recent years is stores mis-labeling (weather on purpose for more profit, or on accident). Once you can match a name to a face, keeping and collecting gets much easier. I've gone into stores before and because of mis-labeling they'll have a $300 fish labeled and priced as a $50 fish. The more you can know about bichirs and identifying, the better of you'll be. I'd suggest just going through old threads with pics and names that identify them, you get to see differences from fish to fish and it's really enjoyable seeing just how different they can be.
This may help a bit. I used this to make sure all my choices would or should work together. ie final size. The pics aren't that great but descriptions are good.
http://www.polypterus.info/profiles.htm
http://www.polypterus.info/profiles.htm
