there is another difficult way to identify senegal and delhezi bichirs, does not matter if they are albino or natural colouration.
But it's really hard for me to describe that in English
, hope you can understand;
You must compare backfins and breastfins (don't know if it's the right name for that in English).
The End of the breastfins is nearer at the first backfin by a delhezi bichir. So there is no distance, first backfin is nearlly on the top of the breastfins, example:
http://raubfische.net/forum/sonstiges/polypterus/Polypterus_delhezi.jpg
Distance between breastfins and first backfins by a senegal bichir is a little bit more, for example:
http://www.drpez.org/albums/Polypterus-senegalus-fotos/aae.jpg
So the differences aren't very big, but they exist
And as you allready said, you can count the backfins. If he has 8 or 9 backfins, it's a senegal.
So make some better pics now
But it's really hard for me to describe that in English
, hope you can understand;You must compare backfins and breastfins (don't know if it's the right name for that in English).
The End of the breastfins is nearer at the first backfin by a delhezi bichir. So there is no distance, first backfin is nearlly on the top of the breastfins, example:
http://raubfische.net/forum/sonstiges/polypterus/Polypterus_delhezi.jpg
Distance between breastfins and first backfins by a senegal bichir is a little bit more, for example:
http://www.drpez.org/albums/Polypterus-senegalus-fotos/aae.jpg
So the differences aren't very big, but they exist
And as you allready said, you can count the backfins. If he has 8 or 9 backfins, it's a senegal.
So make some better pics now
:j/k:
