Wild caught Lapradei vs Captive bred Lapradei?

[batang_mcdo]

I noticed that Wild caught lapradeis being sold here always seem to have better marking tha n the captive bred ones available here.
The captive bred ones always seem to have the color of the senegals? can't see much marking?
Is it because of imn breeding? or why do the patterns disappear in captive bred ones?

 

[anarekist]

could be the hormones they use to induce breeding

 

[batang_mcdo]

could be the hormones they use to induce breeding

Thanks that could explain why captive bred ones look like senegalese , miss my old wild caught lap, sold it before it really had nice dark patterns, it's hard now to find wild caught ones here


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[HybridHerp]

I also feel like captive breed poly's stay noticeably smaller than wild caught ones
like wild sense that are 14" with captive breed ones being around 8"
I notice that my endli has decided to stay 15", and I don't think its because he is in a 75, cause he's been that size for a long time now, though he still grows a little little bit

 

[batang_mcdo]

I also feel like captive breed poly's stay noticeably smaller than wild caught ones
like wild sense that are 14" with captive breed ones being around 8"
I notice that my endli has decided to stay 15", and I don't think its because he is in a 75, cause he's been that size for a long time now, though he still grows a little little bit

Yup also read wild caught endless seem to grow bigger than captive bred ones. Could it be due to hormones used?


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[kevinfleming21]

Inbreeding, and over inbreeding usually cause recessive genes (usually bad characteristics) to become expressed when in the wild they would remain recessive.