World first breeding report of Polypterus senegalus "Lake Turkana"

[giseok jung]

The female one that spawned this time



The pair



Spawned Eggs


Fertilized eggs, you can see the embryos are developing.


World first breeding report of Polypterus senegalus "Lake Turkana" from my friend "Healing Aqua" in Korea.

By their breeding report, Polypterus senegalus "Lake Turkana" has much bigger eggs than regular senegalus from west africa and spawn just a little number of eggs at once.
The size of egg are about 1.5 times bigger than the eggs of Nigerian senegalus egg which is almost same size with Polypterus bichir eggs.

The female that spawn this time was about 39cm but lay only about 100 eggs at once and this is not usual for senegalus.
There was a breeding report of Nigerian senegalus about 25cm that spawn about 1500 eggs at once by Healing aqua more than 10 years ago.

The fertilization are confirmed now so i'm very excited to see how these F1's will grow and try to breed my pair too.

 

[KMS]

holy moly

 

[neko1]

so cool. can we get some parameters? and did this dude make use of dropping temperatures?
Or how did they start breeding? (does it have to be influenced by rain or drying up or..)

 

[beau1990]

And giseok jung strikes again! Good job buddy

 

[NCStateFisher]

so cool. can we get some parameters? and did this dude make use of dropping temperatures?
Or how did they start breeding? (does it have to be influenced by rain or drying up or..)

If he's the only one that's done it I doubt he's sharing parameters for a while until he's made good money haha

 

[Caveden]

And giseok jung strikes again! Good job buddy

His friend bred the polypterus not him, still a huge achievement though

 

[giseok jung]

And giseok jung strikes again! Good job buddy

My friend done it for this time
Maybe i can be the next one.

 

[giseok jung]

so cool. can we get some parameters? and did this dude make use of dropping temperatures?
Or how did they start breeding? (does it have to be influenced by rain or drying up or..)

I don't have any date about breeding of this species either unless it's very difficult.

 

[giseok jung]

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