ID fish

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sprntswimm86

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Wish I had a digital camera to take a picture but I have 2 id sharks and an unknown. The id sharks are lighter and look very similair, the third is much darker on top. The third has the same stripes on him but they are much harder to see. The third one has always been my favorite (they are about 4 inches now) because he has always been an active swimmer and never runs or cowers like the others. Before I had always assumed that his eyes were just hard to see because of his darkened appereance, however today I felt like a closer examination. Where the other id sharks have very visible eyes and eye sockets the unknown third darker one has no visible eyes/sockets. After examining the web the closest picture I could find to him would be
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but without the visible eyes. Im worried the fish store aka Jacks has sold me a Paroon shark instead of an id like this one which looks much similiar to my others.
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I plan on grabbing a friends camera and snapping/posting a few pictures. But now I think the reason why he is so fearless is because he never "sees" anything to be afraid of!
 
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The pics you posted are both ID sharks.

Is his dorsal fin short and blunt like the pictures you put up, or is is long and streamy? If it is the latter of the two, then it is a paroon...

Genetic mutation causing lack of eyes is very likely in this situation regardless of if the fish is a paroon or ID shark. Lack of eyes is more common than one would think.

Also, you are concerned about his possible lack of eyes. I have always felt that blind fish/turtles are always more aware of their environment through their other senses, and are in someway more aware than normal fish/turtles.
 
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