biggest polypterus I have seen

[Loubard]

i haven't seen mine eat for over a year now!!!--
--solomon

Weird, mine are eating monsters, in the morning, afternoon, night...they don't care. There are out eating all the other bichir and growing like there's no tomorrow.

 

[MonsterFishKeeper2007]

Wow =O thats one giant polypterus!! lol xD So is that the biggest poly out their? And whats the range of these polys lenght? or how long do they get?

 

[Cohazard]

Andri,
here ya go -Anne
Species and sizes
maximum known sizes often smaller in captivity
Upper Jaw Species-Upper jaw protrudes past lower jaw
P. palmas palmas ('palmas' bichir)- 13"
(subspecies)P. palmas polli ('marbled bichir)- 14"
(subspecies) P. palmas buettikoferi ('buettikoferi' bichir)- 13"
P. ornatipinnis ('ornate' bichir)- 27"
P. delhezi ('armoured' or 'delhez's' bichir)- 14"
P. senegalus senegalus ('Senegal' or 'Cuiver's' bichir)- 12"
(possible subspecies)P. senegalus meridionalis- 12"+
There is, Also the possibility of a third member of the Polypterus senegalus
group that is found in the Nile River
P. retropinnis ('retropinnis' bichir)- 14"
P .mokelembembe
P. weeksi ('week's' bichir)- 20"
P.teugelsi (found only in the Cross river)-16.75''
E. calabaricus ('Ropefish')- 15"-30" (Closer to 15''-20'' in captivity)

Lower Jaw Species-Lower protrudes past upper jaw
P. endlicheri endlicheri ('saddled' or 'red' bichir)- 32", possibly more
(subspecies)P. endlicheri congicus ('giant' or 'congo' bichir)- 39"
P. Bichir lapradei ('Lapradei' bichir)- 24"
P. bichir bichir-30+ ''
P.ansorgii

Are these SL sizes?

Because Toyin has 18-20" tegelsi's, but I don't know if he's using SL or TL

 

[Infblue]

i think toyin's measurement is TL. reason numbers are different is because of the small number of specimens captured to date, we can only guesstimate and base its size on the largest specimen seen so far. and probably when anne put that list together, the largest was 16.75" +/-

 

[Loubard]

2 of mine are 20" for shure.

 

[MonsterFishKeeper2007]

wow thats Huge!!!... Man that has to be like over 240 gallon at least maybe 300 or more lol 0.0

 

[endi]

thats a monster.. how old is it? and what is it eating ...lol

 

[silverknight]

that is huge even if the asian people are little bitty.

 

[odalisay]

i actually like the color/pattern (or lack of) of this congicus a lot. i've always wanted a yellowish congicus with very faint to nonexistent stripes.

I actually have 2 of these type of congicus. Will get some pics up.

 

[arosvios]

Thats got to be the biggest endy i have ever seen! Cos down here in s'pore, there was a place in geylang, a monster fishes collectors shop, housed a few big endies! Biggest ard 2.5ft, but those black strips all faded off! Can only see the base colour of them!