Congenital abnormality, FISH BEAK!!

[dogofwar]

It could also be a result of physical trauma... but it does happen in wild fish. I have a wild Gymnogeo. with a deformed mouth / head. It is what it is...

Matt

 

[lach]

its definitely a genetic mutation i think its the bmp4 gene or something.. which affects beak size and width in birds and causes the mutation in fish that gives this result... just did a lecture on it at uni

 

[John Rambo]

its definitely a genetic mutation i think its the bmp4 gene or something.. which affects beak size and width in birds and causes the mutation in fish that gives this result... just did a lecture on it at uni

interesting

 

[miles44]

Haven't seen this before on a festae

Maybe not to that extent but we've seen this guy...
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277537
...and that's F1 per owner.

 

[peathenster]

Maybe not to that extent but we've seen this guy...
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277537
...and that's F1 per owner.

Those look pretty nice to me....I guess I've only seen a few festae in person.

 

[miles44]

Those look pretty nice to me....I guess I've only seen a few festae in person.

The female's nice. The male has some obvious "beakage" going on. Simply unattractive IMO.

 

[lateraldisposition]

umm looks like an average festae to me I see no beak just an exceptional male festae that's to miles the other one definitly looks like he has some blood parrot in him LOL