New Poly, Deal Maybe?

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Bought as an XL Senegal for $40 bucks. I'm pretty sure its a lapradei (Confirm/ID plz), which makes me extremely happy because we are very short of bichirs around here....I mean, I get super excited when I see a delhezi for sale. Heres some pics, but they don't give it justice, it is super thick haha.

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Yup, the head doesn't look like a Senegal. By the way, what's the difference between a Lap and a Palmas? Hope somebody shares photos of Palmas, because a LFS here is selling a 5" poly labelled as Palmas for $9. I just wanna make sure it's worth it.
 
picture#1.P.bichir lapradei
picture#2.P.palmas polli

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Hartzell;921943; said:
Yup, the head doesn't look like a Senegal. By the way, what's the difference between a Lap and a Palmas? Hope somebody shares photos of Palmas, because a LFS here is selling a 5" poly labelled as Palmas for $9. I just wanna make sure it's worth it.
your 'palmas' at the lfs could in fact be a senegalus since i've seen them mislabeled as such as well. palmas polli (what anne posted) has a sorta marbling pattern, and senegalus is patternless.
 
yep it's a lap, senegals and polli's are upper jaw species and lap's are lower jaw. makes it pretty easy to distinguish!
 
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