Just a Theory

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Dr.Gonzo4

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As primitive as polys are, me and my friend had jokingly suggested that if you created a proper enviroment, and bred them in the same enviroment over a long period of time, lowering the water levels while giving them incentive to come out of the water slightly, if they could evolve some kind of primitive legs or more leg like fins. Just a random theory, anyone think it could work? it would probably take a long time but it might
 
:) give it a few million years.

Actually, dogs evolved from wolves in a very short period of time...if you look at captive bred fish you can selectively breed them for specific traits.
 
yeah as far as ive seen with domesticated foxes it only took about 4 or 5 generations to make a really docile fox but the thing was like black and white stripe, their color mutated and varied greatly, if i did seriously attempt this then yes i would be picking the bichirs that are moving more strongly on land to breed out, I may seriously be doing this. just put the food near where the water turns to land in the tank so it makes em go in shallow water, breed out the strongest of those, keep going as long as possible. Im going to college for fisheries, so i may very well be able to get some kind of funding for this other then my own pocket.
 
Haha creating an evolutionary link is Never going to work, in captivity especially... invest your time in trying to line breed a platinum/albino variant that has not been seen before. Much more likely, even though it's highly unlikely for any success as it's mostly luck from mass breeding. Have you had any success breeding polys? If not, not sure where the idea even came from.


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Nim Dibbley said:
Actually, dogs evolved from wolves in a very short period of time...if you look at captive bred fish you can selectively breed them for specific traits.
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I acctually recently watched a documentry about how dogs are more or less wolves that don't mature. Interesting stuff.

Anyways, more or less it could work, but it'd just take a few million years lol


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We've already got banded-less bichirs, long finned, platinum, spoon head, albino, what more are you asking for? Put some radio-active material and you would get godzilla out of a bichir.
 
I got this from the notion that bichirs can use there pectorals to move on land/mud while being at my buddies house talking about his mexican salamander (aoxotl sp?) and how similar they look to baby bichirs with the external gills, I'm not thinking real legs, maybe just a more developed pectoral muscle so you can get them to come out of water sometimes in tank. That would be pretty cool, its not like they don't do it in nature. Hell my first bichir (petsmart senegal) was prone to hopping up on his in tank filter, a fluval, and he'd just sit n chill for a good 10 seconds then hop back in. Has anyone here ever given a bichir the option to get in and out of water easily in tank?

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E.C. said:
We've already got banded-less bichirs, long finned, platinum, spoon head, albino, what more are you asking for? Put some radio-active material and you would get godzilla out of a bichir.
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The only variety you listed above that I can even somewhat easily get is an albino Senegal. Plus those are all just color morphs, I would like to get a behavioural morph going

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