Angelfish with no anal fin?

[Betta132]

I've read a couple of angelfish breeding guides that mention fry being born with no anal fins, often due to being the fry of probably-inbred chain store angelfish. Clearly you wouldn't want to breed those fry, and usually they're culled, but has anyone grown a few up just to see what they look like? Aside from the bad genes, I don't think a fish with no anal fin would have any issues, aside from maybe some minor difficulty keeping itself balanced, and I'm quite curious what a fully grown one would look like. Not curious enough to purposefully breed a batch of defective angels, though.
So has anyone ever grown one like that up? I'd think it might look sorta cool.

 

[Frank Castle]

I was kinda thinking along the same lines as you....balance would be the issue - all the fins seem to have their own function and I would guess the anal and dorsal to be important stabilizers. Angelfish are pretty weak swimmer to start, so I don't imagine many success stories for those missing fins.

 

[Oddball]

I've had missing-fin fry from my angels. But, since I was usually growing out several spawns at a time I never thought twice about trying to grow these defective fish out. They were culled to one predator tank or another before passing dime-size.

 

[Flowerhorntx]

I have a pic of one!!!!!!

 

[Flowerhorntx]

Saw him at petco I shoulda bought him !

 

[Flowerhorntx]

I thought it looked pretty cool deffently different and I could swim fine

 

[Finagain]

I have one nearly full grown. Looks kinda like a fancy Monodactylus. Bought online. I was sent additional fish later to compensate me for several defective ones and I just didn't have the heart to dispatch fish that were already bigger than quarter size. The other 2 had only 1 fin each and all 3 fish function just fine.

 

[Angel Lady]

I have one without ventral fins and one without a swim bladder (I don't think he has a swim bladder). The one without ventral fins is in my classroom tank at school and Nemo, the one without a swim bladder, has his own tank and is living quite well. I also have a very weird one...It was born without a dorsal fin. I suppose someone could have taken a bite when he was tiny but...I'm not sure. He lives quite comfortably with no issues. I would never breed him but as part of a community tank he does fine.

 

[davao]

Angelfish are so inbred, lots of deformity. It should be expected. I wish someone will take the effort of crossing back to the wild strain to in vigor the domestic varieties.