I'm shocked

[E_americanus]

you can see that fish is way too fat...

i agree, way too fat for a typical P.a.aethiopicus, so i would almost question the subspecies as well. regardless, if they opened it up it probably has massive fat bodies surrounding the internal organs. looks very fat and could be stunted too, given it's very stout appearance for a normally elongate lungfish species. definitely sucks that the fish is dead though--
--solomon

 

[GriF]

Yes... the fish deffinetly looks stunned..(and was way to fat)..it was housed in a 180x45x60 high
I think most people could see this comming..it realy is a shame..here is a pic (for people who have not seen it) of the fish when it was in a better shape and the proportions were better...(please tell me if I post to many pics I'm just a bit of a wh*re for pics)

 

[Druu]

Yes... the fish deffinetly looks stunned..(and was way to fat)..it was housed in a 8x2x2..
I think most people could see this comming..it realy is a shame..here is a pic (for people who have not seen it) of the fish when it was in a better shape and the proportions were better...(please tell me if I post to many pics I'm just a bit of a wh*re for pics)

Thanks for the pic- a great comparison. I thought he looked like a chubby bratwurst in the first pic. No worries about being a pic wh-re, we love wh-res. Keep them coming- how about some of your albino LFs?

 

[GriF]

Thanks for the pic- a great comparison. I thought he looked like a chubby bratwurst in the first pic. No worries about being a pic wh-re, we love wh-res. Keep them coming- how about some of your albino LFs?

hahaha thanx Druu .... but I think there are enough pics of my 2- lungs in this forum.........but I will update when there are some new developments or something like that.....

 

[E_americanus]

albinos always make the ID difficult, but from that earlier pic (the one where it looked "normal") i would say (mainly based on the dorsal fin insertion) that it looks more like an annectens than a P. aethiopicus...that and at 3' an aethiopicus should have more of the characteristic "spooned" head...just my opinion based on observations of the species--
--solomon

 

[Oddball]

Is that snowy?

Snowy is an australian lungfish.

 

[GriF]

albinos always make the ID difficult, but from that earlier pic (the one where it looked "normal") i would say (mainly based on the dorsal fin insertion) that it looks more like an annectens than a P. aethiopicus...that and at 3' an aethiopicus should have more of the characteristic "spooned" head...just my opinion based on observations of the species--
--solomon

Yup I'm with you it is deffinetley difficult to id albinos.
And I can see where you are comming from..when we are talking about the insertion of the dorsal fin and the spoon head....In my oppinion I go for P Aethiopicus Aethiopicus I have notised there is a lot of difference in fysical apparence when we look at.
just look at these.

Greetings the pic wh*re.

p.s. excuse my crappy english..I can explain it better in Dutch


In the first pic you can see his Aethiopicus has no spoon head either.

In the second pic you see an aethiopicus who has it's dorsal fin placed more near the head than we are used to...but does have the nice spoonhead we are talking about.

 

[GriF]

here is another example

when we look at the dorsla fin..(maybe a better one because this is a P.A.A. instead of an P.A.C. like the second pic in the previous post)

 

[E_americanus]

good examples, and i see what you are saying...those reference shots are much more informative than the photos of the albino, i think the angles of the shots in the albino shots (ones where its in the tank) throw things off. i'm not fully convinced, but given the reference shots i would lean more towards P.a.a. than before...that and we don't see many albino annectens for some reason either --
--solomon

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Oh man thats horrible at least it wasn't yours.