Catch locations/variants

[shookONES]

I've seen so much variation between wild caught, locale specific bichers that I don't give it much weight nowadays.

 

[Dr.B]

Substrate plays a significant role for skin pettern we see on these bichirs. I think its kind if a defensive mechanism to be safe from predators.

camoflauge? Lol

 

[HumanBean]

camoflauge? Lol

Lol not camoflague but dark or light tones specially in lower jaw species.

 

[Dr.B]

One question I have is are these being used as food? Are they being transplanted to other pets of the river for such a thing? Years of this lead to different groups? To be easily harvested. Just wondering.

they are used as food, but I doubt that the people transport them to another part of a river system for them to establish and create a food source.

 

[Dr.B]

Thought i would start a threat regarding the topic instead of derailing dr.b's thread. At the very least we could just share our thoughts on the subject. Me personally its more of a curiousity think as i find cb's attractive too.





Maybe we can all update the lap endli sticky with more info. See we dont know if the conditions where they are born could sustain adults... kind of like sharks that are born in lagoons then head out to sea when they are grown.




Thats kind of how i see it too. I kind of the think the names we go by for the lap and endlis are sort of b.s ?

Not talking about sp. Dabola or any of the sp koliba, sp.kokotons to me those are less confusing

Sp. Koloton and Sp. Koliba fall under the same boat as endlicheri sp. dabola. They are a catch variant just as the Faranah laps and endlis.

 

[tlindsey]

Substrate plays a significant role for skin pettern we see on these bichirs. I think its kind if a defensive mechanism to be safe from predators.

This holds true not only for fish, but entire animal world.

 

[Champagne Papi]

Sadly I hear they are a delicious.-___-. I believe a Bichir can move to a different pond (by a person or just swimming) and adapt to that area. There's also a large variation of colors in the wild. Water conditions might play a role also, like if the water tends to have more plants the Bichir will get some greenish look in color as an adaptation to hunt. But another pond are maybe very murky brown or black which makes them darker in color. Maybe there's different predators to avoid in each environment which some patterns have better chances of living. I think personally it's like dogs there will have some that's a pure color, some spotted and some striped. I've never had a Bichir breed in my tank but I will look at the results.

 

[Dr.B]

Sadly I hear they are a delicious.-___-. I believe a Bichir can move to a different pond (by a person or just swimming) and adapt to that area. There's also a large variation of colors in the wild. Water conditions might play a role also, like if the water tends to have more plants the Bichir will get some greenish look in color as an adaptation to hunt. But another pond are maybe very murky brown or black which makes them darker in color. Maybe there's different predators to avoid in each environment which some patterns have better chances of living. I think personally it's like dogs there will have some that's a pure color, some spotted and some striped. I've never had a Bichir breed in my tank but I will look at the results.

sadly there will be almost no visual effects from a homebred poly. Compared to the CB Polys they've been bred down countless lines and have been mass bred so many times that there's small visual effects that are visible. In home aquariums it's possible, but it'll take years upon years of work.

 

[HumanBean]

Sadly I hear they are a delicious.-___-. I believe a Bichir can move to a different pond (by a person or just swimming) and adapt to that area. There's also a large variation of colors in the wild. Water conditions might play a role also, like if the water tends to have more plants the Bichir will get some greenish look in color as an adaptation to hunt. But another pond are maybe very murky brown or black which makes them darker in color. Maybe there's different predators to avoid in each environment which some patterns have better chances of living. I think personally it's like dogs there will have some that's a pure color, some spotted and some striped. I've never had a Bichir breed in my tank but I will look at the results.

+1 for deliciousness

 

[DMD123]

I hear they batter them in a corn batter, deep fry them and sell them at the mall. They call them 'Bichir on a stick'.... No not really