Anyone have polypterus vids or pics in their natural habitat?

[ewurm]

My interest in these fish grows every day. I have seen piranhas, peacock bass, amazon catfish, but never any material regarding polypterus, or any West African fish for that matter, living in their natural home. Anybody got anything?

 

[beblondie]

I've never seen any ''in the wild'' video or pics.Its most likely due to the fact that Polypterids have only recently started to become popular-Anne

 

[robroy]

There was a 3 part BBC documentary called "CONGO" here in the UK. On one episode they had some amazing footage from Lake Tanganyika-incredible cichlids and lo and behold a 1-2 minute spread on a swimming Bichir. It looked damn big and to me possibly a P. polypterus? Really fascinating to watch it swimming out in the open above the bottom.

 

[ewurm]

There was a 3 part BBC documentary called "CONGO" here in the UK. On one episode they had some amazing footage from Lake Tanganyika-incredible cichlids and lo and behold a 1-2 minute spread on a swimming Bichir. It looked damn big and to me possibly a P. polypterus? Really fascinating to watch it swimming out in the open above the bottom.

I'll do a search, see if I can find that.

 

[Infblue]

There was a 3 part BBC documentary called "CONGO" here in the UK. On one episode they had some amazing footage from Lake Tanganyika-incredible cichlids and lo and behold a 1-2 minute spread on a swimming Bichir. It looked damn big and to me possibly a P. polypterus? Really fascinating to watch it swimming out in the open above the bottom.

that cool...hope they'll air it in the US some day.
theres no species called P. polypterus. if its lake tanganyika, thats probably a P. endlicheri congicus.

 

[robroy]

Sorry for my ignorance-its one of the big ones anyway. Definitely not Endli (I've one of those). Do look out for the series-it was very interesting. Alos had some Aba Aba feeding at night which was incredible

 

[killerfish]

sounds like blue planet they had some stuff on african cichlids breeding and it showed aba abas hunting at night which was really cool no bichirs though

 

[davo]

Theres a short segment on them in one of the first four episodes of Life on Earth I think. When I say it's short, it's very short (probably less than a min). I'll look into it.

 

[Infblue]

Sorry for my ignorance-its one of the big ones anyway. Definitely not Endli (I've one of those). Do look out for the series-it was very interesting. Alos had some Aba Aba feeding at night which was incredible

oh don't worry about it yeah P. endlicheri congicus is the largest species on record, although from anectodal sources, theres another specie thats larger (not from tanganyika). i'll definitely look out for the series! thanks for the heads up...

and thanks for the info too davo.

 

[SUNFLOWER]

I was going to write and say that I saw a special about man loking for water snakes in africa and they showed a P. Endlicheri swimming and laying on the bottom maybe 20 seconds worth.