New Pickup! Polypterus bichir lapradei

[Stump]

Got this big beast by mistake today.

Was supposed to be a Delhezi, but hell... This works too.

 

[devder1]

lol he looks like an oversized sen with a flat head
eating yet?

 

[Stump]

You should see his teeth... Wow.

Not eating yet... I dropped some shrimp pellets, and growth pellets in, and he didn't seem interested yet... My sens gobbled them up though.

 

[Yanbbrox]

Nice pick up

 

[Stump]

Thanks!

This is my first lower jaw species.... Second species altogether.

 

[dbcb314]

be nice to see what he looks like when he colors up

 

[Stump]

Definitely.... I almost thought bichir bichir when I first saw it, but I noticed some faded markings I couldn't quite make out (that, and I know i'm not that lucky)...

I measured it, and it's actually 8 1/2 - 9". I'm pretty sure it's a female now.

 

[WHITECJ2OW]

i like the first picture, it dwarfs the picture in the background

 

[Stump]

Yeah, that's her next to one of my 4-5" Senegals.

Thank you.

 

[Angler]

Lower jaw is the way to go fo sho