You shouldn't blindly believe scientific studies, they are sometimes inaccurate. I trust mike w/ bichir info, hes probably one of the only specialty polypterus vendors in the US. CB is CB, most farms don't bother about stopping inbreeding, it would only take a year or 2 of the farm being operational for the polys to be completely messed up inbreeding wise. BUT as you say, the initial care for the spawn has to do with it too. I believe the combination of both is a double header for CB being weak. My albino senegal is CB and its doing great, IME and it seems many, many others concur that its the luck of the draw with CB polypterus. Of course every death isn't a direct cause of it being CB, it is for sure a contributing factor though. Weaker animals are weaker animals, if humans were inbred like that 20 generations in they would be horrid, sickly beings.
If someone was to buy baby WC endlis, grow them in the same room for side by side comparison to farmed CB endlis in another tank, I gurantee the CB will have more long term health issues then the WC.
That's all we have been saying, and I was hoping for the response I got on my Ornate, again thanks for the nice comments and input!!! I had figured it wouldn't display those since it was a hobbyist spawn and not a farm, and it was the first generation (F1) but I figured just to be safe I'd post it up and see what others had to say.
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