Polypterus delhezi breeding

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I just got a new poly, (delhezy). This is the first real poly I've had besides the more common senegal that I first bought from petsmart a few years back when I was still very uneducated about fish in general. Back then I tried to put the poor guy in a 55g with JDs and feed him coked turkey and lunch meet...I know its hard to believe he made it this far. I am not saying I'm an expert now but I have learned a lot in the past years and want to explore the hobby farther. So far I have been successful spawning africans, BNs, a pair ofJDs, and parachromis friedrichsthalii "yellow heads". I have also kept Cryptoheros Nanoluteus and am hoping once my females grow large enough I can breed one of them with my male. I know that this isn't too impressive but I'm working with limited resources and space.
Any way to get to the point I have been looking for something else to try to breed and nothing has come to me until I started asking about my polys in another recent post. my lfs has recently purchased 5x 6-7" of these delhezy and I was wandering if it is possible to sex these fish at there size and if so can they be successfully bred?
 
I mean, you could try.. but I think more likely than not it wont happen. Maybe if you had a big natural pond typed thing.. but still probably not.

Also how do they get young Delz? Are they captive bred or wild?
 
pookie;5121921; said:
I mean, you could try.. but I think more likely than not it wont happen. Maybe if you had a big natural pond typed thing.. but still probably not.

Also how do they get young Delz? Are they captive bred or wild?
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If they are small, young they are most likely CB.

The market is flooded with CB these days.
 
tokyogasmask;5122546; said:
If they are small, young they are most likely CB.

The market is flooded with CB these days.
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Well they were about 5-6inches long.. How do they CB them if no one else can manage to breed them? Like in big ass ponds or something?

I would love to get a big pond and have a few in there... Im kind of obsessive with Dels now :D
 
The store had to special order and the guy I worked with, (I've worked with him before), said the retailer had them listed as wild caught Congo.
 
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