World first breeding report of Polypterus mokelembembe

[giseok jung]

first male, 27cm



second male, 24cm



female, 30cm

Spawning video.



Spawned egg.
It's successfully fertlized now.

Finally i succeed breeding of Polypterus mokelembembe.
Most of the eggs are fertlized and divising now.

By my breeding experience of other polypterus species, there will be no problem to make them hatch and raise to sub adult size.



I will update about growing of frys soon

 

[Hendre]

That's honestly amazing! Well done

 

[MrsE88]

Congratulations! Do you have more pictures of the eggs?

 

[Tom the bomb]

is that a bichir u bred but WOW I can't belive u did that. UNLIKELY like winning the lottery. It's harder than breeding arowanas I bet but hey has anyone bred feshwater stingrays or saltwater sharks?

 

[kno4te]

Congrats!

 

[kingthedog]

cool

 

[Hendre]

is that a bichir u bred but WOW I can't belive u did that. UNLIKELY like winning the lottery. It's harder than breeding arowanas I bet but hey has anyone bred feshwater stingrays or saltwater sharks?

Plenty on both sides. Go check out the rays forum

giseok jung has bred many bichirs by this point.

 

[twentyleagues]

is that a bichir u bred but WOW I can't belive u did that. UNLIKELY like winning the lottery. It's harder than breeding arowanas I bet but hey has anyone bred feshwater stingrays or saltwater sharks?

Yeah rays and sharks seem to breed at the drop of a hat.
Polypterids are very difficult to breed.

 

[Hendre]

Yeah rays and sharks seem to breed at the drop of a hat.
Polypterids are very difficult to breed.

I don't think they are difficult per se, but rather there is a long maturation time needed and most of our poly tanks are not kitted for breeding polys. As you can see Giseok uses a breeding mop mat to catch the eggs. A previous member in Europe had 6 large lapradei and often found eggs in the filter mats in the sump without any additional effort..

 

[Tom the bomb]

what about puffers. I heard they were hard to breed and clown loaches?
just wondering, has anyone bred inverts or mollusks before?