My two new bichirs

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mcblack said:
nice bichirs love the mokelembembe, are they farmed bred? whats the difference between mokelembembe and weeksii? looks kinda similar to me, have untrained eyes
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no they are not farm bred. not that I've searched extensively, but i haven't seen record yet of successful breeding of mokelembembe in captivity. P. mokelembembe is formerly known as P. retropinnis, but has recently been reclassified.

mokelembembe is much more narrow-bodied than weeksii, the head is much smaller and narrower than weeksii, which has really broad head. also mokelembembe has on average 6 dorsal finlets, weeksii has ~10. the first dorsal finlet of mokelembembe is situated very posteriorly (the first one starts very far back, in the rear half of the body), for weeksii, the first dorsal starts in the front half. also, mokelembembe has several broad saddle stripes whereas weeksii has more and narrower stripes in general
 
nice fish cdm! nice pics too as always. how big is that senegal?
 
nice senegal never seen one like that
 
mcblack, as Infblue stated, the mokelembembe, are not farmed bred, he also made a pretty clear comparison between both species (mokelembembe & weeksii). Infact, you won't mess up with both.

DrBranDo, thanks. I believe, you have more chance to get more varieties of species than we can do here.

XRAYZ, thanks. And, I sure will keep updating.

Magnus30, that long fin sengal is less seen, but, it's visible in SE asia market.

is300zx, its snout was hitten on the glass during netting it up from the tank in LFS, should be recovered in sometime.

Infblue, thanks for the comment and also thanks for the explanation.

PhullTank57, thanks bro. You are right about "P. mokelembembe is now the new proper given scientific name for P. retropinnis retropinnis"

cmersits, hehehe, "the long fin kinda looks like a 'betta-bichir' ", that is very true!! :grinyes:
 
Infblue said:
no they are not farm bred. not that I've searched extensively, but i haven't seen record yet of successful breeding of mokelembembe in captivity. P. mokelembembe is formerly known as P. retropinnis, but has recently been reclassified.

mokelembembe is much more narrow-bodied than weeksii, the head is much smaller and narrower than weeksii, which has really broad head. also mokelembembe has on average 6 dorsal finlets, weeksii has ~10. the first dorsal finlet of mokelembembe is situated very posteriorly (the first one starts very far back, in the rear half of the body), for weeksii, the first dorsal starts in the front half. also, mokelembembe has several broad saddle stripes whereas weeksii has more and narrower stripes in general
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thanks for that clarification, seems that i kinda mixed them in my mind, a follow up question if you don't mind, how to diffrentiate a mkelembembe from the other palmas complex
 
how much for the mokemble, the first two and how did you sex them?
 
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