Do you buy deformed or crippled fish?

[kevinfleming21]

LOL Chomper, that's awesome....never seen that before.

 

[Lupin]

I wouldn't have believed it got chomped anyway. Can't see it surviving without the spine but I can understand if it's genetic defect.

 

[AQUAMONSTER]

I think some deformed fish are cool heres my gold sev. His upper lip is sucked in. Its funny to listen to him eat.

 

[teohha]

mamapuff >> Nice... I don't think its a birth defect though, definitely chomped.

 

[mshill90]

I think its actually a birth defect. I found that type common in Angel fish, but not these guys. First I have seen.

So, birth defect, or bite? Because you have said both..

#48

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=306413&highlight=mamapuff&page=5

"...I have a little powder blue Gourami that was bit literally 1 mm above his spine. The size of the chunk missing is the size of a quarter sliced down the middle...."

 

[cockroach]

I don't buy them because it means the continuation of bad and weak genes. If no one bought them wholesalers would stop putting them in shipments. I also think it is good money after bad.

 

[mshill90]

I don't buy them because it means the continuation of bad and weak genes. If no one bought them wholesalers would stop putting them in shipments. I also think it is good money after bad.

Deformed fish don't always mean bad genes.

Bad water conditions, and such also play a role.

For example: Koi can get mouth rot and ulcers from being in too crowded conditions, which leave them deformed from the damage is caused.

Bad genes? No. Bad fish keepers.

Here is a koi that is perfectly healthy, but because the keeper didn't clean the pond properly before winter came along, it developed mouth rot, and permanently deformed it's mouth. I now have this koi, and he's as healthy as a horse.

 

[aidenb]

Even if it was the genes, who cares, just don't breed them and their deformity will end with them, I do find that deformed fish have a better personality.

 

[teohha]

My deformed Calvus... manage to get him for half price. Still pretty pricey.

 

[Industrial]

I do not buy deformed or crippled fish. I like the way fish look when I buy them. To me, buying a deformed fish (unless I liked the deformity), is like buying a fish that is not the one I wanted.

At work though I remember these guys bought this African cichlid that was missing it's tailfin and most of it's dorsal fin. It was a birth defect. I only charged them for half as well.

Now all my fish that become deformed I keep. One of my halfbeaks swam into the glass really hard and snapped off his bottom beak and rolled his one eye halfway back. He also developed a spine curvature. I am not going to get rid of him because of it.

lol ok. Everyone.... meet Chomper

Did you ever consider trying to breed Chomper?