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Old 11-10-2011, 12:29 AM   #61
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I guess its a sp dabola because of the racing stripes on the head of the bichir.
Just a wild guess only...
Koliba.
I checked with Daniel of AH, he said if I dont have any guinea endi then it's a koliba.
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Old 11-10-2011, 12:41 AM   #62
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Just to share my newly bought ansorgii. Hope to seek some comments frm seniors here as very new to bichirs.
Bro yr ansorgi needs more frenz of it's own kind..
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Old 11-10-2011, 01:01 AM   #63
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Koliba.
I checked with Daniel of AH, he said if I dont have any guinea endi then it's a koliba.
Erratum.
Dabola. My bad
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Old 11-10-2011, 02:15 AM   #64
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Just a newbie asking a silly question.
May i know how many types of polypterus bichir lapradei variants there is?
Many thanks in advance to all the sifus who can enlighten.
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Old 11-10-2011, 09:43 AM   #65
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Just a newbie asking a silly question.
May i know how many types of polypterus bichir lapradei variants there is?
Many thanks in advance to all the sifus who can enlighten.
I'm no sifu but here's what I can share. Generally, there is 2 main variants namely from Nigeria and Guinea. However, from the Guinea variant, there seems to be further divisions.

Although some may say that the following are individual species, the main school of thought is that they are just different types of Guinea laps due to the difference in headshape, patterns and colour. Currently, there are:

1) Tinkisso Guinea
2) Koliba
3) Koloton
4) 'Sankarani' from the the Sankarani river in Mali, Guinea

Hope this helps
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Old 11-10-2011, 10:16 AM   #66
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I'm no sifu but here's what I can share. Generally, there is 2 main variants namely from Nigeria and Guinea. However, from the Guinea variant, there seems to be further divisions.

Although some may say that the following are individual species, the main school of thought is that they are just different types of Guinea laps due to the difference in headshape, patterns and colour. Currently, there are:

1) Tinkisso Guinea
2) Koliba
3) Koloton
4) 'Sankarani' from the the Sankarani river in Mali, Guinea

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there a great insight for me as im still learning. Thanks bro, so there only 5 variant in total for lap?
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Old 11-10-2011, 10:20 AM   #67
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Well Dabola sp. is also from Guinea. However, many think that they are a natural hybrid of the Guinea lap and the Guinea endli. Others say they are a species on their own. This is hard to determine given the lack of resources and study done on them
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Old 11-10-2011, 10:41 AM   #68
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wow, nice delhezi there...

anyway, my guinea endi is not coloring up after so long.. recently turning pale even though it's been in my red quartz sand tank for so long... still eating normally with no signs of sickness. weird
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Old 11-10-2011, 10:58 AM   #69
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wow, nice delhezi there...

anyway, my guinea endi is not coloring up after so long.. recently turning pale even though it's been in my red quartz sand tank for so long... still eating normally with no signs of sickness. weird
Perhaps its a light tone base guinea endi. So long its eating well should be good bro.
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Old 11-10-2011, 01:26 PM   #70
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Just to clarify every of this we referring to in biological term are all fall under the polypterus genus and futher break down into species of :-

Polypterus ansorgii
Polypterus bichir
- Polypterus bichir bichir
- Polypterus bichir katangae
- Polypterus bichir lapradei
Polypterus delhezi
Polypterus endlicheri
- Polypterus endlicheri congicus
- Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri
Polypterus mokelembembe
Polypterus ornatipinnis
Polypterus palmas
- Polypterus palmas buettikoferi
- Polypterus palmas palmas
- Polypterus palmas polli
Polypterus retropinnis
Polypterus senegalus
- Polypterus senegalus meridionalis
- Polypterus senegalus senegalus
Polypterus teugelsi
Polypterus weeksii

Other variant due to sources location, biological (hybrid cross, albino, leusistic) are not being properly classifed and should fall into these classes. Sellers can quote a new variants due to commercial reasons but we hobbyist should know what we are buying, into a breed or just a variants of a breed. A varaints of just reason of rarity (due to reason of WC or remote sources) could cost multiple times. In actual fact we are merely buying the same breed of lap.
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