are all species of bichirs have been bred in captivity? what is the rarest species of bichir in your opinion? excluding those short bodies, platinums and albino in form? just in species alone.
question out of curiousity
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I don't think all bichirs have been breed in captivity as I never heard or seen a captive breed polypterus palmas palmas, polypterus palmas buettikoferi, polypterus retropinnis, polypterus mokelembembe and polypterus teugelsi.
So most captive breed bichirs are found in Japan and Indonesia. They captive breed polypterus endlciheri endlicheri, polypterus endlicheri congicus, polypterus bichir bichir, polypterus bichir lapradei, polypterus ansorgii, polypterus weeksii, polypterus ornatipinnis, polypterus delhezi, polypterus palmas polli, polypterus senegalus senegalus and Erpetoichthys calabaricus.
The rarest wild bichir is the polypterus mokelembembe. Hard to find in the wild. That's why it got the name "mokelembembe". It was named from a cryptic creature that was thought to be a living dinosaur that still roam Central Africa.
As for the rarest captive breed bichir.... would be a plat lap or a plat weeksii IMO. No one sure what's the rarest bichirs yet as most of them are in Japan and they don't seems to show them off excpet if you buys some of those Japanese fish books. You'll see a lot of rare bichir variants in there.
So most captive breed bichirs are found in Japan and Indonesia. They captive breed polypterus endlciheri endlicheri, polypterus endlicheri congicus, polypterus bichir bichir, polypterus bichir lapradei, polypterus ansorgii, polypterus weeksii, polypterus ornatipinnis, polypterus delhezi, polypterus palmas polli, polypterus senegalus senegalus and Erpetoichthys calabaricus.
The rarest wild bichir is the polypterus mokelembembe. Hard to find in the wild. That's why it got the name "mokelembembe". It was named from a cryptic creature that was thought to be a living dinosaur that still roam Central Africa.
As for the rarest captive breed bichir.... would be a plat lap or a plat weeksii IMO. No one sure what's the rarest bichirs yet as most of them are in Japan and they don't seems to show them off excpet if you buys some of those Japanese fish books. You'll see a lot of rare bichir variants in there.
peewee;3416038; said:
I only have one mokelebembe. There are other members here as well that have them and they are not that expensive.
Andri Pogo;3416164; said:
They been captive breed in Asia many times already. Even Frank Schafer who published Aqualog book also manage to breed ropefish in captivity.
machine;3416817; said:
It's really hard to tell unless you ask the person who you brought it from. Probably only way to tell is that captive breed ropefish grow to max of 12-13 inches while wild caught have a chance to get up to 16-18 inches, but rarely in captive care.