My Polypterus

[cohazard]

Here are some pics of my polypterus, I'm not sure if anyone on AC likes these (besides the AC users that came from MFK :D)


Polypterus lapradei
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/SoCalSunset/wideviewcongi.jpg

Polypterus senegalus (albino)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/SoCalSunset/DSC04411.jpg

Polypterus senegalus (albino SB)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/SoCalSunset/albino2.jpg

Polypterus delhezi
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/SoCalSunset/delthafunkypoly.jpg

Another shot of the Delhezi
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/SoCalSunset/delthafunkypoly2.jpg

Polypterus ornatipinnis
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/SoCalSunset/ornate.jpg

[Mgamer20o0]

looks crazy what size of tank and how big are they.

[Ghost_knife]

COOOL!

[StreetCypher]

Very nice collection of bichirs!

I too am a bichirfanatic

[BrkD]

wow awesome fish. i like the albino senegal bichar..too bad i dont have a tank big enough to house one properly

[Rbishop]

Very nice!

[Rallysman]

I love the ornate and delhezi!

[captaincaveman9]

Very nice, was that a rope fish tail I saw?

[fish_freak]

Nice fish!

[blackwolfXKAV]

awesome bichirs, love the albino and the ornate!

what are the specs?

[Dixon]

very nice polys

[Toirtis]

Nice fish.

As for me, I should hope I like them...I have about 70 of them. LOL

[cohazard]

Thanks for taking a look at my collection and your compliments; these are my pride and joy.


Nice fish.

As for me, I should hope I like them...I have about 70 of them. LOL

Wow! Got any pics you can share? Is that a juvie endli. endli. in your avatar?


Very nice, was that a rope fish tail I saw?

Yes it is, but I'm in the middle of a move right now, so I gave away a lot of my aquariums to my friends, and I gave the ropefish to one of them. I have oscars in my poly tank, and I didn't want the lil guy to get eaten.


what are the specs?

The tank is 180g (6x2x2), only 2 AC110's right now, but I'm working on getting an XP3 or 4 or an Eheim 2028 soon, and eventually a second one. Since all of them are under the 12" range, the filtration I have still holds up fine, but I'm fully aware I will need much much more filtration before these lil guys get full grown.

I do weekly 75% water changes, nitrates (last time I checked before WC) were at 10-15, PH is 7.8 (even with driftwood, our water is just stable like that).

Their staple diet is a floating pellet (it makes them swim around the top of the tank to feed which is cool to watch). Once a week they get minnows, shrimp, and guppies, and I've recently started to feed dwarf frogs but at $6 for 4, it aint a weekly thing until I find them wholesale somewhere lol


I too am a bichirfanatic

I recognize your handle from MFK, what's in your collection?


wow awesome fish. i like the albino senegal bichar..too bad i dont have a tank big enough to house one properly

Hey I know the feeling, once upon a time a 55g was my largest tank. Hopefully you'll have the room someday so your inner bichirfanatic can come out.

[Toirtis]

Wow! Got any pics you can share?

A few poor ones. I am getting a bit better at photography, so I will take a few more and find somewhere to host them, then post some links.


Is that a juvie endli. endli. in your avatar?

It is...by coincidence, I have 3 juvie endis right now.

My collection looks something like:

9 Polypterus senegalus senegalus
3 Polypterus senegalus senegalus (albino)
14 Polypterus ornatipinnis
12 Polypterus palmas polli
2 Polypterus palmas buettikoferi
5 Polypterus delhezi
7 Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri (Chad basin)
3 Polypterus bichir lapradei
2 Polypterus endlicheri congicus
3 Polypterus retropinnis retropinnis
1 Polypterus retropinnis lowei
4 Polypterus weeksi
8 Erpetoichthys calibaricus (ropefish/reedfish)

[StreetCypher]

I recognize your handle from MFK, what's in your collection?
I've been here much longer than MFK, just changed usernames to match up to other places.

I've got
5 X polypterus endlicheri endlicheri (3 guinea variants, 1 chad variant and 1 volta variant)
2 X polypterus bichir lapradei (both guinea variants)
2 X polypterus delhezi
1 X polypterus ornatipinnis
1 X polypterus retropinnis

[KingOfTheDeep]

awesome!

makes me want a delhezi even more now..

[wataugachicken]

i definitely like the delhezi, if i ever see one i'm going to get it. though there might be some thieving involved depending on my bank account. . .

[boofish2]

Very nice, was that a rope fish tail I saw?

That's what I was gonna ask too....
Nice bichirs BTW!!

[KingOfTheDeep]

i definitely like the delhezi, if i ever see one i'm going to get it. though there might be some thieving involved depending on my bank account. . .

my LFS has one about 12 inches for 35, i called them earlier and told them to hold it for me :D

[wataugachicken]

well, I can be there in 11 hours.

[cohazard]

Well, those are some very hefty collections, well done! I'll deff be waiting on those pics toirtis, and BTW, save some poly's for the other folks in your town heh j/k

StreetCypher, you're right, I've seen your posts around these boards waaay before I signed up on MFK, I didn't know you had such a great collection of poly's though.

[Toirtis]

and BTW, save some poly's for the other folks in your town heh j/k

I wish that I could say no...I was in a shop a couple of days ago, and limited myself to a single weeksi, even though there were two more as well as several palmas polli I would have liked to take (nevermind the tank full of $30 baby ornates), but cash, and more significantly, space, do have their limits.

[5Bettamom]

They are really cool looking. How big do they get and how big of a tank are they in? They kind of look like ancient water lizards..lol. Where did you get them?

[cohazard]

They are really cool looking. How big do they get and how big of a tank are they in? They kind of look like ancient water lizards..lol. Where did you get them?

They vary in adult size by species... My lap will grow the largest, maxing out at 30"; the ornate will reach around 24", the Del about 14" or so, and the senegals around 12".

I got them at different LFS's that I visit... The senegalus and ornate came from the store closest to me in the SGV that I get food from, the lap came from a different store in the SGV, and the Del came from a store in Long Beach run by a guy named Steve.

They do kind of look like lizards... my former roomates had some friends over once, and their friend thought I had an electric eel (the reedfish) lol.

[the Amazonian]

so prehistoricly cool

[Kamryn]

Very Nice!!:clap: