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amiidae

19-08-2017 03:28 PM

Rare import - My ALL-NEW Gilled African Lungfish fm Kenya

YouTube Video

https://youtu.be/_Pa2grRZ2Ls

tuajia

19-08-2017 03:52 PM

Wow bro, very beautiful specimen. Who did you get to import in for you?

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amiidae

19-08-2017 04:15 PM

Iwarna farm brought in a few recently.

Aro77

19-08-2017 07:45 PM

Truly Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Btw what are you feeding the guy?

Ong88

19-08-2017 08:25 PM

Congrats

Are the external gills resorped as it grows older?

amiidae

19-08-2017 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aro77 (Post 9998185)

Truly Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Btw what are you feeding the guy?

Sinking pellets and mp.

amiidae

19-08-2017 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ong88 (Post 9998193)

Congrats

Are the external gills resorped as it grows older?

Nope. The ext gills is permanent for this species. Hence, called gilled lungfish.

amiidae

19-08-2017 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by amiidae (Post 9998209)

Nope. The ext gills is permanent for this species. Hence, called gilled lungfish.

Sorry. Need to verify this. But i think thats what i can remember.

Ong88

19-08-2017 09:50 PM

Yes, it be different variant if external gills permanent.

All lung fishes have external gills when young but this specimen look quite big.
After about 7 inches they usually resorp.

amiidae

19-08-2017 10:55 PM

This lung is abt 10inch at the moment.

This is the smallest in the group. Max under 2ft.

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