Head shape?

[machine]

seems lik WC upper jaw bichirs have flatter heads than CB 1s do is it jus me? or is it tru? if true wuts the reason 4 it?

 

[King-eL]

It would depend on which location it was caught from. Those CB ones came from Nigerian, Congo, Guinean and Chad WC parents and been mix together and bread ion mass numbers.

 

[machine]

do u kno if theres a reason 4 the diff head shapes? mayb digging or hiding idk y im wonder this but i am 4 sum reason

 

[iloveoscars702]

i think it just depends on the individual fish's genes.

 

[Aisle17AorE]

It would depend on which location it was caught from. Those CB ones came from Nigerian, Congo, Guinean and Chad WC parents and been mix together and bread ion mass numbers.

looks like the man knows his fish.

 

[Infblue]

another factor is that as the bichirs are bred in mass numbers, in the long run inbreeding/selective breeding/limited gene pool will all affect the looks of the fish, causing them to look different from (and in some cases worse than) WC ones.

Take CB endlis, since it's so popular and been bred/mixed so much, their head shape is generally quite different from WC ones, and sometimes weird looking. And if you look at platinum endli, the situation is even worse, there are way too many i've seen with abnormal head shape, no doubt due to the inbreeding to produce the platinum morph.

So what you notice may simply be a result of the mass breeding, in addition to different regions of fish being mixed.