Don't let your bowfin gorge on borderline rotten fish...

[Hao]

Thank you guys for these visuals. This is great. Some bowfins have this pronounced reticulated cool pattern! I wonder if it is geography/genetics. Ours were like the two of the drabbest in the DrownedFish's pics above. The green is totally awesome but can't be aimed at or counted on as this is the breeding, transient color, it will not keep. Kind of the same as Chinese High Fin shark/loach get intense red/purple for the breeding, then back into the drab oblivion

Is Rehoboth Aquatics still owned and run by Toyin? The Africa specialist? (I bought fish from him back in 2015.) If so, when did he switch/augment with the USA natives?

Yeah Toyin still around. He also brings in South American fish as well as the usual African. He's been doing USA natives for awhile. But most of those are sent overseas.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

jpcampbells 8 year old passed: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/lost-my-bowfin-had-it-8-years.745432/

 

[DrownedFishonFire]

NANFA - North American Native Fishes Association | This is a video I took a couple years ago of a “massive” Bowfin | Facebook

This is a video I took a couple years ago of a “massive” Bowfin. At a wetland preservation, In Fort Wayne Indiana

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Testing to see if this link works as fort wayne ind is not far from where I am at this is the typical markings I see on our bowfin

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

The site and the video act a bit funny but both are viewable by me. Thank you. Cool specimen, pretty markings and the obviously green pectoral fins plus it is not afraid of humans gives away it is in heat, I presume.

 

[DrownedFishonFire]

Yup its the start of spawning colors