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bobVillanueva

bobVillanueva

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hey guys, bout a year ago, i asked to id this guy... i bought him as a senegal years ago.. and when i got him id-ed here, most of the peeps told me he was a lap with poor coloration due to stress :(

but a year after, he still is pretty much the same color... perhaps he just don't have the "markings"/colors of a laperdei?

he he was a year ago.
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this is him now

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lap xD
 
lap>i had both dark and light looking laps on both light and dark gravel,its really just the color of the lap,I call them blonds.
 
That's because it's been in that substrates for so long. I have my first lap and it never have any patterns because it stayed in river pebbles substrates for 2 years. Now his in my red substrates and still no color.

I actually have an experiment on 2 laps 3 months ago that once they stayed in lighter substrates or river pebbles for more than a year, even putting them to tan, black, substrates, it won't color up anymore. While my other lap only stay in pebbles substrates for 3 months and it started to color up when I moved it to red sand. This only happened to captive breed lap and not the wild laps. Wild lap will always shows it's patterns.
 
King-eL;2727840; said:
That's because it's been in that substrates for so long. I have my first lap and it never have any patterns because it stayed in river pebbles substrates for 2 years. Now his in my red substrates and still no color.

I actually have an experiment on 2 laps 3 months ago that once they stayed in lighter substrates or river pebbles for more than a year, even putting them to tan, black, substrates, it won't color up anymore. While my other lap only stay in pebbles substrates for 3 months and it started to color up when I moved it to red sand. This only happened to captive breed lap and not the wild laps. Wild lap will always shows it's patterns.
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I have to disagree about the wild laps. I got one from a local fish store that a friend had traded in. I know that this fish was wild caught from Toyin. The fish was completely pale with just the dark spots that laps get showing. I had him for almost 4 months and then added some Ansorgiis. He darkened up and started displaying a really bold pattern. I will find a pic and post it in a few.
 
tezr;2727961; said:
I have to disagree about the wild laps. I got one from a local fish store that a friend had traded in. I know that this fish was wild caught from Toyin. The fish was completely pale with just the dark spots that laps get showing. I had him for almost 4 months and then added some Ansorgiis. He darkened up and started displaying a really bold pattern. I will find a pic and post it in a few.
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I said, "This only happened to captive breed lap and NOT the wild laps. Wild lap will always shows it's patterns."

Just use your common sense that most bichirs are pale when newly introduced and laps are the longest bichir to make the patterns to make it stable.
 
King-eL;2727973; said:
I said, "This only happened to captive breed lap and NOT the wild laps. Wild lap will always shows it's patterns."

Just use your common sense that most bichirs are pale when newly introduced and laps are the longest bichir to make the patterns to make it stable.
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sir, noticed ur avatar. haha anyway, it was sold to me as a "dragon fin" (senegal) as they usually call it here in our country. i guess i got lucky considering there aren't a lot of laps here. looks like i got a lap for the price of a senegal. . . 50 pesos!
 
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