Are There Wild Caught Senegals?

[FishGoneWild]

The head looks exactly like that.

 

[Hao]

wow beautiful =D

 

[CTU2fan]

I had a bichir about 20 years ago, looked just like these, I assume wc senegalus. Mine was over 12" for sure.

 

[Hao]

lol thats a long ass time

 

[King-eL]

I had a bichir about 20 years ago, looked just like these, I assume wc senegalus. Mine was over 12" for sure.

Most bichir that were being sold from 12-20+ years ago are all wild caught. And yours was definitely a wild caught.

It's the massive farm breeding with hormones injection that's making them not to grow pass 12"+. Some do get beyond 12" but it's rare.

 

[CTU2fan]

Most bichir that were being sold from 12-20+ years ago are all wild caught. And yours was definitely a wild caught.

It's the massive farm breeding with hormones injection that's making them not to grow pass 12"+. Some do get beyond 12" but it's rare.

It was very long and not as thick as the common ones we see now. Or maybe as thick but longer, so it looked thinner. Much darker colored too, more olive green than the tan ones I see now...like in the pic.

 

[Cohazard]

It was very long and not as thick as the common ones we see now. Or maybe as thick but longer, so it looked thinner. Much darker colored too, more olive green than the tan ones I see now...like in the pic.

Those are the sens that made me fall in love with polypterus! The first one I had ever seen was at a walmart 10 years ago, and it was a beautiful light olive green color, the fins reminded me of a coelacanth!


A couple years later I got my first ornate, but by then, the senegalus were being farmed already and never found another green one like that ever again...

 

[Hao]

-sniff sniff- anybody got a tissue? this is so touching, this is like love with da fish

 

[Hao]

FGW wanna sell me 1 and a palmas palmas?

 

[Cohazard]

-sniff sniff- anybody got a tissue? this is so touching, this is like love with da fish

You're so hard