Polypterus endlicheri photo thread
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i wouldnt lol plus only way for you to know its dabola is if its coming from a trusted source and even then i wouldnt bet my life on it..... been debated before but most of these areas are connected via water ways
Plus Ive heard the local people are huge practical jokers and catch polys from one area and release them in another so that us hobbyist think we are getting one catch location when really it comes from somewhere else.
Realized that about some of the recent batches toyin has brought in. They have more of a lap head, where as some of the ones from a couple of years ago that Jurassic aquatics and aquatic daycare were selling had endli heads (pretty sure they got them from toyin though). It's really an interesting topic and something I really want to see science Unearth in the future.
WC Lapen are like one of the holy grail to poly keeping in my opinion. They're so few that are caught, and presumably an uncommon occurance. Fetched at a hefty price tag when available.
Based on some of the reads. Even the captive bred are hard to come by. Only because it's conducted by Japanese breeders such as Dory-k and others.
Based on some of the reads. Even the captive bred are hard to come by. Only because it's conducted by Japanese breeders such as Dory-k and others.
See and this is what I think us on the US side of things needs to adopt. Usually if you ask people what a WC Hybrid is called, they'll call it a Dabola, when the term sp. Dabola only specifies where it is caught. Where as Lapen describes what the species is alleged to be. So you can have a WC Lapen caught in Dabola, or somewhere else. However you begin to get confusion when you have the CB lapxend which is supposedly the same fish, but different quality.
