Thats definitly a captive breed, i would leave it on freshwater. 100% of the time fish store sells captive breed senegal bichirs, only a few store that ive seen sell wild caught since senegal bichirs are mass produced in asia and they are much cheaper and easier to get than wild ones.
1) hes the id specialist lol
Usually the head shape, most captive breed have this round head and snout usually more pointed down, wild caught have more flat head toward the top ans snout more square. Like J jaws7777 said usuallyyou can tell once they put on some size. Another thing you can tell is their body, CB have this belly and body looks short and oblong shape, while a WC have elongated body even when it just ate.
Lol, i just learned most of it from you guys
My senegal grew very slowly and he soon became a meal for my other bichir that was 2 inches larger, but with the oscars growth rate he’d be able to eat the bichir in no time.
The Oscar is about 10 inches atm he's in his own 75 but I have the Bichir in a Planted 10 gallon for Growout until he's big enough to drop into the 75 peacock setup, to which he will stay until I feel he put on enough length to live with the Oscar in his setup. Currently the Bichir is about 2.5 inches in length.
I hope that will work, some sen get stunned at 5”-8”, some will grow 9”-10” but rarely will grow 12”. If it even gets to 9” mark it will take years before hitting 11”-12”. Most people would go for Lower Jaw species when they want a oscar or peacock setup cause a LJ poly will have a huge size difference in growth compared to a senegal.
Also, lower jaws are absolute baaaaaaadasses.
