Post your 2017 poly progress pics

[Alexkoj]

These photos were taken on Oct 17 and Jan 17 respectively.


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[Alexkoj]

Photo formatting issue. Here’s the endli 3 months later

Edit: I meant between Oct 17 and Jan 18 respectively - been a long day at work

 

[Hendre]

My turn! It's now been 8 months with my two aquatic sausages so here goes!

4 April: I bring this little critter home, so tiny! Maybe 3" here. I quickly named him Nibblet after his appetite became apparent.

21 April: Not satisfied at one I snagged a beautiful Nigerian WC sen, later named Toothless ( J jaws7777 may remember why), and the addiction was settled.


Their setup at the time was my newly refreshed 70, with a proper black background



29 April: Sand! Really got them colours out!


11 May: Disaster struck! Anchor worms!


26 May: Rescape, looking better and better

5 June: Just eating and growing, looking great guys. Plus more plants!


8 October: More rescapes and such. Polys look the same, just getting bigger by the day!


A Nigerian November:


Now Today, after 8 months I'm here with 2 fat lil Sausages! I love you all for pulling me into this

Hope you didn't mind the photo flood!

I wish you all good luck with your lovable little or large bichirs

 

[bottomdweller72]

My turn! It's now been 8 months with my two aquatic sausages so here goes!

4 April: I bring this little critter home, so tiny! Maybe 3" here. I quickly named him Nibblet after his appetite became apparent.View attachment 1291757

21 April: Not satisfied at one I snagged a beautiful Nigerian WC sen, later named Toothless ( J jaws7777 may remember why), and the addiction was settled.
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Their setup at the time was my newly refreshed 70, with a proper black background
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29 April: Sand! Really got them colours out!View attachment 1291763
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11 May: Disaster struck! Anchor worms!
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26 May: Rescape, looking better and better
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5 June: Just eating and growing, looking great guys. Plus more plants!
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8 October: More rescapes and such. Polys look the same, just getting bigger by the day!
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A Nigerian November:
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Now Today, after 8 months I'm here with 2 fat lil Sausages! I love you all for pulling me into this
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Hope you didn't mind the photo flood!

I wish you all good luck with your lovable little or large bichirs

Sausages lol love the pics! They are beautiful ❤

 

[Alexkoj]

Koliba after 2 weeks in the tank. It’s settled and colours are now showing

 

[clm08k]

thanks for all the love everybody. There are some really great pics on this thread! It's fantastic to see how everybody's polys have grown.

Some 2017ish pics.
Princess tianna the Endli when we 1st got her and when she tried to end it all.
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Now
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Teug snake eyes
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Now
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Mega-kolotron
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Now
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Kong the congicus
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Now
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Ghost Congi
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Now
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Zip the vulture
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Now.
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Not 2017 but found hulks baby pics lol thought they were cool.
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Wow! I totally forgot that Tianna was the one who jumped out. She looks great and made an excellent recovery. All the polys and the jags have put on some good size and colored back up nicely. Blonde Congi aka Ghost congi continues to surprise me.

Laughing at Hulk's baby pics. He was a little Hulk back then.

I've been lazy on pics so I'll do a chart

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Loving all the names! Magic Mike lmao. I bet Piglet and Pinky would be best friends, until they decided to fight over food lol. Still can't believe Tommy grew 2-3 inches that one month. Actually I really like the chart. It's a great comparison to see how fast and slow they grow. My moke also has only grown 1-1.5 inches.

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Forgot her before picture. The one and only actual photo I ever got of her. This was her first home, a 10g tank and she was just put in it. Love my Beamer

gosh Beamer is such a cutie! The poly forum is so wonderful. I started recently too and the folks here are a huge help.

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Ok so here we have Lucifer and the Polli. For reference the 2 pieces of pvc are 3/4" diameter and about 3" long. Tank is 9 gallons 5 /16/17.
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Polli on 11/15/17
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Lucifer on 10/8/17
About 10"

I <3 Lucifer. He's such a lovable scoundrel. They both got really big this year! Polli is phat with a p-h.

Okay so, I don’t currently have my tank set up as I still have to build the stand and I’m kinda waiting on things to warm up a tad before I do any work in the garage.

But anyway I do have some before and after pics of my old set up (god I wish I wouldn’t have sold all that...)

We will start with the teug.

When I first got him 3-4”
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And not long before I sold it all at about 8”
She was pushing 9” when I sold the tank
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And the pbb. I had him for one day short of a month before I found he took a dive out of the tank but he put on about 2” before then. for some reason I can’t find a lot of the pics I knew I took of him.
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Pics are sort of out of order because how they uploaded but I had another pbb as well but don’t have much on his growth but he’s still at the lfs I sold him too and he looks like he’s in bad shape as in not eating or growing
both the endlis I sold to them are growing fine and the one must have been sold

I’m going to start working there a couple hours on the weekends to help them start up some breeding programs and other stuff so I’m going to get this guy in shape and buy him again when my tank is ready to go.

sorry to hear about your PBB. Love the cute teug on the intake valve. Am very excited to hear you are going to be getting more teugs to grow out!

This is my favourite.
Before in March 2017
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I got this PBB a few weeks ago. I am really happy about it. There is something special about PBB's!
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Congi looks great! Looks almost like two different fish. Well done

I love threads like this and seeing the progress of the bichirs here. Great job all around

My 2017 grow outs
CB Congicus to 19.5" and 21"
CB endi to 20"

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PILK for sure. They are beautiful. Love the opaque white color. Absolutely love seeing the polys you grow out; they just seem so happy, healthy and majestic.Would call them monsters, but they are so much more than that

 

[clm08k]

Photo formatting issue. Here’s the endli 3 months later

Edit: I meant between Oct 17 and Jan 18 respectively - been a long day at work

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Alex, Your endli got huge! It is super cute. Does it have a name? It looks to be 2 feet now? P.S. the koliba lap is setting in nicely. The darker colors make it look like a vibrant PBB. Great pick up.

My turn! It's now been 8 months with my two aquatic sausages so here goes!

4 April: I bring this little critter home, so tiny! Maybe 3" here. I quickly named him Nibblet after his appetite became apparent.View attachment 1291757

21 April: Not satisfied at one I snagged a beautiful Nigerian WC sen, later named Toothless ( J jaws7777 may remember why), and the addiction was settled.
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Their setup at the time was my newly refreshed 70, with a proper black background
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29 April: Sand! Really got them colours out!View attachment 1291763
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11 May: Disaster struck! Anchor worms!
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26 May: Rescape, looking better and better
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5 June: Just eating and growing, looking great guys. Plus more plants!
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8 October: More rescapes and such. Polys look the same, just getting bigger by the day!
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A Nigerian November:
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Now Today, after 8 months I'm here with 2 fat lil Sausages! I love you all for pulling me into this
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Hope you didn't mind the photo flood!

I wish you all good luck with your lovable little or large bichirs

Love seeing your African wild sen and your CB. You had quite a challenge with the worms. Glad the polys are getting big. The plantscape looks awesome btw!

 

[Slayer2533]

Awesome progress pics guys loving it. I will have to get mine up soon. My polys have had some massive growth spurts

 

[Alexkoj]

clm08k cheers! yeah the koliba is a real gem the endli is 3 inches shy of a feet. It was about 3 inches when I got it back in Oct.