Bichir

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madscientist;3049737; said:
I am actually going for wild caught ones
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Wild caught bichirs are more expensive and dun sell well in Singapore. That why you see mostly farm breed bichirs and the prices below SGD$40 for small ones.

Hope the market are more open to wild species before you are able to see them more often.
 
madscientist;3070465; said:
Hmm, wonder why is wild caught more expensive since it is more likely not to survive in captivity than farmed
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Not true, farmed breed bichirs also has death rate, but freight and local authority clearance, quarantine period are the main causes for the wild caught bichirs being more expensive.

Which is more expensive? Shipping a few boxes of bichirs from indonesia or bichir from country of original(ie africa). The shorter the distance, the cheaper is the freight cost. Hope you know why now.

Happy searching for wild bichirs in your country. ;)
 
razinski82;3063884; said:
hey maddy,

well aquastar is at yishun ring rd, blk934. Nice place and lots of accessories. Friendly staffs working there.
As for the serangoon north, it's just that I never tried buying from there. Ever I tried enquiring about the polypterus, the shopkeeper refer the endi, ornate and albino as "tiger, flower and red eye dragons" respectively. Plus some of the polys I see are either non active or have cloudy eyes. But that's just me being skeptical...

It's all entirely up to you where u prefer. We as customers or consumers have e right to choose....rite? I enjoy cruising on my bike so traveling here and there checking out LFS on a sunny afternoon is like a therapy to me...
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Hi Razi, I go to sgn north quite often just to recce and look-see, that's my therapy too haha.. There's 1 shop that sell decent stuff, along the stretch opposite the cc next to the vet there. Go inside and you will find all sorts of funny and exotic fishes. They have snakeheads, fire eels, pangasius, even baby arapaima haha. Don't know how they got such exotic species, but I assume it's all legal. Their bichirs are quite nice and big too, not too expensive either. I saw some really fat endis about 1ft long. You might wana check it out.

As for the names, I think it's okay lah cos the chinese name for ornate is "mei hua long" (plum flower dragon) referring to the mottled colour ("hua" in chinese also means "mottled" in a sense). But I have never heard of anyone calling endis "tigers". The chinese name for them, believe it or not, is "kong long wang" (dinosaur king)!!
 
madscientist;3074007; said:
Dear Kohaku,

Farmed fish are more adapted to captive life than wild caught, :D
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That is not true, If you do your study well before you keep any wild caught fish, you can be sucessfully keep them too.

I have many wild caught bichirs at home and they adapt to tank life very fast. I have kept them for many years now and most are doing fine.
 
Dear Kohaku,

Wild caught specimens are more susceptible to poor husbandry issues and need to be wean on commercial feeds. Farm raised specimens have less of such issues. I am not saying it is not possible to keep wild caught specimens successfully. Your chances are higher with farm raised specimens, especially so for new aquarists.

Cheers
 
madscientist;3078761; said:
Dear Kohaku,

Wild caught specimens are more susceptible to poor husbandry issues and need to be wean on commercial feeds. Farm raised specimens have less of such issues. I am not saying it is not possible to keep wild caught specimens successfully. Your chances are higher with farm raised specimens, especially so for new aquarists.

Cheers
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I do have such problem with 1 or 2 of the wild bichirs, but i can say i also encounter this problem with farm breed del, endy and polli too. It is a matter of training your fish to take whatever you feed them and providing them with a balance diet with both commercial feeds, live feeder etc.

It takes time to slowly convert them but that si the fun of keeping fishes. :) Good luck with your bichirs
 
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