Short-bodied fish are addictive.

[pshtex]

why dose this puking face shoot puke out of its eye??? does it have a really bad deviated septum and the other thing where people shoot milk out their eyes???

oh and btw nice fish.....deformed but nice if u like that sort of thing

i can't wait till i see the thread title "check out my new short bodied baby girl, or boy (so as not to be a sexist) "........ maybe that was a bit inappropriate

 

[Yellow_Perch]

cool but how can you tell if you even got a short body..

 

[fishmamma]

cool but how can you tell if you even got a short body..

Cause it's short bodied.

 

[aclockworkorange]

Nothing personal against you guys that like them, I just don't care for it personally.

As a fishkeeper, I enjoy biotope-ish setups with species you would likely see together in the wild (not insanely strict on this, but I like keeping SA fish with SA, CA with CA, etc), setting up a tank to replicate the way that habitat might look, and observing behavior. I don't usually name my fish and I don't keep fish that are "man made."
I like looking at my tanks and thinking that might be what it would look like if I went and stuck my head in a river down in ________.

I keep my furry pets as "pets," my fish are different.

 

[knifegill]

What's the matter,aren't the fish in their natural state good enough?

I'm a huge fan of wild fish staying just the way they are. I am also opposed to mutilated, dyed and most hybrid fish. But when an individual crops up that is by all rights a natural inclusion, why not celebrate it? Sure, in the wild this guy would have been too slow to evade capture by predators. And I wouldn't condone the spawning of SB fish in order to create more deformed fish. But if they happen as a matter of fish production, I just don't feel a need to be opposed to their existence.

You don't have to like them. I'll do it for you.

I am also a biotope fan and have made efforts toward setting some up. But my plants always die, so I end up with sand and rocks.

To everybody else- thanks for appreciating the cuteness!

 

[619aquaponics]

I just fell in love with that firemouth

 

[fishmamma]

Nothing personal against you guys that like them, I just don't care for it personally.

As a fishkeeper, I enjoy biotope-ish setups with species you would likely see together in the wild (not insanely strict on this, but I like keeping SA fish with SA, CA with CA, etc), setting up a tank to replicate the way that habitat might look, and observing behavior. I don't usually name my fish and I don't keep fish that are "man made."
I like looking at my tanks and thinking that might be what it would look like if I went and stuck my head in a river down in ________.

I keep my furry pets as "pets," my fish are different.

Don't make me bust out a picture of mine... !!!!

 

[Allan01230]

To each his own I personally don't care for them but if someone likes them cool.

 

[knifegill]

Exactly! I'm not enthralled by every category of fish, either. HUGE doradid and pleco fan, but loaches bore me. Go fig.

 

[MonsterMinis]

They are cute.. as far as mutants go. not a fan of hybrids.. man-made test tube babies.. or mutations in general. But I give you Credit for keeping them but not attempting to breed them.