true bichir bichir ?!

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tilo@meyer

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Hey guys
i have found this* video on youtube , and ask me is this a true bichir ?
Frank Schäfer (aqualog) says:
-juvenils are richly colored contrasting

-Most keep they her coloring up to 16" (plain gray with longitudinal washy towels and stains)

-from 16" by lapradei difficult to distinguish
Bichir have never vertical bandages on the front ther body

-Bichir, has spots on the back body part ( like the video )

so Frank Schäfer describes P.bichir.bichir

So the video show a true bichir ?






*http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=b0yt4.../index.php?act=post&do=reply_post&f=13&t=1667
 
freshwaterz;2456055; said:
here is mine, i just got him a week ago. he's bout 6" long.
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Although nice, yours seems to be a P.senegalus.
What the other people are talking about is P.bichir.bichir.
Although yours is a bichir, this thread is referring to the species, subspecies name (which is bichir bichir).
Make sense? Confusing I know.
;)
 
vanimate;2456078; said:
Although nice, yours seems to be a P.senegalus.
What the other people are talking about is P.bichir.bichir.
Although yours is a bichir, this thread is referring to the species, subspecies name (which is bichir bichir).
Make sense? Confusing I know.
;)
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in my first post i stated that i wasnt sure if mine fit into the bichir bichir category or not. plus i was just showin him off:grinno:
i wasnt confused at all.
 
aspear;2456101; said:
ya. there is only 4 bichir bichir in the US
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4?
I'm only aware of two in the U.S:
thefishguy7 and infblue.
ashdavid also has one, but I believe he's overseas.
 
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