I swear this is the first clown loach i have ever bought...

[Alan Russell]

Short-bodied ones are not easy to come by. You've seen by now short-bodied polypterus, jellybean parrots, balloon rams, balloon mollies and plenty others with rather short body in comparison to the normal ones. I'd still stick with the normal ones though.

Finally! Thanks.

 

[dogofwar]

They're not easy to come by because they're deformed and would most likely die in the wild.

 

[JD_MAN]

I wouldn't class it as a "cull" or a "dream fish".

Its a unique little fish that looks cool... nothing more nothing less

I keep hoping to find a short body of any kind and have had no luck for almost 3 years now. All I ever find are oddball patterns.

 

[moespeaking]

looks like a parrot cichlid

 

[Aussienative]

They're not easy to come by because they're deformed and would most likely die in the wild.

Obviously a fan...

Clown loaches are captive bred in huge numbers now.

Because there is less off him, there is less for a pred to grab... so he would survive

 

[headbanger_jib]

i did not see one post of EWURM
i think something bad has happened to him and that is the reason he hasn't posted here
(j/k)

 

[Aussienative]

i did not see one post of EWURM
i think something bad has happened to him and that is the reason he hasn't posted here
(j/k)

pretty sure he prefers his pattern morphs rather than body morphs

 

[snickers]

Short-bodied ones are not easy to come by. You've seen by now short-bodied polypterus, jellybean parrots, balloon rams, balloon mollies and plenty others with rather short body in comparison to the normal ones. I'd still stick with the normal ones though.

I had a turtle that turned a normal molly into a short bodied version once - but he was only short on one end. He wasn't short for long either. Before long he wasn't at all.

BTW: for all the tch tch-ers, I gave the molly to the turtle because it ate the eyes out of my breeding bristlenose. We tried to give the bristlenose a decent farewell, but the molly didn't deserve it.