kind of looks cool as long as it can eat well it would be interesting to see what it looks like when it gets older i hope its not bad thats a really cool fish
Hump on Tiger Shovelnose's Head
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def. not a cross bro sorry.... It's either a birth defect or like I said he rearranged his little face on the glass... But that's def. a tsn
im going with birth defect i don't see how it could of done that by hiting the glass its nose isn't turned up that far and it hasn't broken what bones could make a shape like that from some kind of trama and if it is from hitting the wall he must of really got some speed goingAwolAngler;828915; said:
definitely cranial deformity from birth. There are large numbers of TSN with birth defects of the skull, and fins. I have one with a downturned snout. I bought him at 2 1/2 inches, and he had this. I have a lima that crushed his snout on the glass and had an upturned beak, but it healed back normal. It was turned up almost 90 degrees to his skull. There is very little curvature of his skull now. Considering he almost broke his beak of his skull I don't see this being a fracture. It's too severe to be from a single, or even multiple glass strike. Plus tsn have a much stronger skull than do limas. Here's a pic of my tsn for you to see. I am also including a pic of my normal tsn as a baby, he's about 4" right now had him for a week. There's a pic of my abnormal one at 3", and currently at 13", and my lima that broke his snout currently, notice the very slight upturn.
