droopy eye

[aquafan2001]

Through my experience, the drop eye in Silver Aros are genetics. I have had community tanks of silvers in the past and some aros will develope drop eye while others won't. It is just by luck that your silver will or will not devlope drop eye.

 

[ashdavid]

If it is genetics, why is it that wild caught silvers rairly have this problem???

 

[piranha45]

If it is genetics, why is it that wild caught silvers rairly have this problem???

because they aren't heavily inbred, or so the theory goes...

 

[ashdavid]

That goes back to my first post that I did,

Here in Japan we can get wild caught silvers and 95% of the time they develope turned down eyes.

How do you explain that? I pressume that there is no inbreeding in the wild. The biggest factor is most likely the enviroment that is provided.

 

[neoprodigy]

That goes back to my first post that I did,


How do you explain that? I pressume that there is no inbreeding in the wild. The biggest factor is most likely the enviroment that is provided.

in japan how they prove that this fish is "wild caught" wont it be cheaper to get silver from fish farm then wild caught?

 

[neoprodigy]

EYES OP

 

[redtailfool]

Love sucking on the juice . I hear it good luck.

 

[Cafe Iguana]

Maybe its just a matter of exercise to the eye muscles, like Ashdavid say, they also eat insects from above the surface. And the lack of excercise tends to acumulate fat behind the eye.... but like everything, thats just maybe.

 

[neoprodigy]

Maybe its just a matter of exercise to the eye muscles, like Ashdavid say, they also eat insects from above the surface. And the lack of excercise tends to acumulate fat behind the eye.... but like everything, thats just maybe.

i heard people feed crickets... and still the has the drop eyes...

 

[redtailfool]

i heard people feed crickets... and still the has the drop eyes...

You have to attribute it to genetics and living in a unnatural environment ( glass tanks )