Arofanatics Fish Talk Forums  

Go Back   Arofanatics Fish Talk Forums > General Aquatic Forums > General Freshwater Forum

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 19-08-2017, 03:28 PM   #1
amiidae
Moderator
 
amiidae's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 7,140
Talking Rare import - My ALL-NEW Gilled African Lungfish fm Kenya

YouTube Video
ERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed.

https://youtu.be/_Pa2grRZ2Ls
__________________
MY ALL-NEW --> AMIIDAE.COM BLOG

amiidae is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 03:52 PM   #2
tuajia
Arofanatic
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 133
Default

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

Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk
tuajia is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 04:15 PM   #3
amiidae
Moderator
 
amiidae's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 7,140
Default

Iwarna farm brought in a few recently.
__________________
MY ALL-NEW --> AMIIDAE.COM BLOG

amiidae is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 07:45 PM   #4
Aro77
Dragon
 
Aro77's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 778
Default

Truly Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Btw what are you feeding the guy?
Aro77 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 08:25 PM   #5
Ong88

Prof SK Ong
 
Ong88's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 10,641
Thumbs up

Congrats

Are the external gills resorped as it grows older?
__________________



Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it won't be a good time.
Use imgur for your photos sharing
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...m.imgur.mobile
Ong88 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 09:26 PM   #6
amiidae
Moderator
 
amiidae's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 7,140
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aro77 View Post
Truly Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Btw what are you feeding the guy?
Sinking pellets and mp.
__________________
MY ALL-NEW --> AMIIDAE.COM BLOG

amiidae is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 09:27 PM   #7
amiidae
Moderator
 
amiidae's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 7,140
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ong88 View Post
Congrats

Are the external gills resorped as it grows older?
Nope. The ext gills is permanent for this species. Hence, called gilled lungfish.
__________________
MY ALL-NEW --> AMIIDAE.COM BLOG

amiidae is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 09:45 PM   #8
amiidae
Moderator
 
amiidae's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 7,140
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by amiidae View Post
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.
__________________
MY ALL-NEW --> AMIIDAE.COM BLOG

amiidae is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 09:50 PM   #9
Ong88

Prof SK Ong
 
Ong88's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 10,641
Default

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.
__________________



Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it won't be a good time.
Use imgur for your photos sharing
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...m.imgur.mobile
Ong88 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 19-08-2017, 10:55 PM   #10
amiidae
Moderator
 
amiidae's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 7,140
Default

This lung is abt 10inch at the moment.

This is the smallest in the group. Max under 2ft.
__________________
MY ALL-NEW --> AMIIDAE.COM BLOG

amiidae is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +9. The time now is 10:41 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Copyright © 2000-2008 Arofanatics.com (Since 30th August 2000)