Just Got 7 NEW DEFORMED Angels !!! Help

[ddyerfamily]

It is a difficult choice. I would honestly hate having to look at those every day but I also would not want to kill them unless they had a low quality of life. Not sure I would want to give them to other hobbyists. Last thing we need is a bunch of people breeding deformed angels and selling them back to the LFS.
Some don't look that bad, like the gold and calico in the 3rd picture. Some look awful like the ones missing fins and their mouths. Perhaps you should keep a select few you have space for and destroy the rest.

I agree ....

Really don't want any of them.

All are "should have been culled" angelfish.

Even the best looking one has deformed gills and fins.

I guess I would like to find another home for them.

Any Takers ??????

 

[Havey]

Don't give them away and risk keeping the bad genes in the hobby. You need to cull them.

Lastly, call the guy who sold them to you and chew him out for even selling them. There are too many people keeping deformed and inbred fish in the hobby. You see deformed angels and horrible blood line guppy's in the LFS all the time. Clean them out and don't waste your time or anyone else's raising them.

 

[melby1980]

I say a humane death would be best for them. It's sad that people don't cull fish like this.

 

[KRUNNCH540]

If a child is deformed and "retarded" do we kill them to prevent their likes from infecting our systems and lives? No. Simple as that. They are living creatures who keep getting passed on because of other people's incapacity to nurture them until they finally pass. You can flame me for my response, but it isn't meant to convey offense. I am simply stating that if we applied this thought process to children of the likes, then this would be a very very shallow world. If I lived close, I would purchase a tank just for them and give them a good home until they passed. However, I don't think that is possible.

 

[Jeox]

Well I don't think they are suffering......really
I can't afford to keep fish like these...plain and simple.
I would love to keep every fish I come across ,but I can't.
I have been given way more fish than I ever have bought.
I get them with tanks I buy and freebies from friends.

I really need to find them a home.

They are nice.....just odd.
All of them are deformed to different degrees.

I don't usually kill my fish...OK

I just don't think anyone will take them either.

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id totally take the if you were closer.
Im pretty sure the babys would be normal though. It looks like they're just stunted.

 

[ewok]

that's nasty looking
i would return them to your husband's 'friend'...

 

[ddyerfamily]

Thanks for all your opinions.

I am talking with a friend trying to get him to take them.
He is coming tomorrow to look at them.
Cross your fingers.

 

[Havey]

id totally take the if you were closer.
Im pretty sure the babys would be normal though. It looks like they're just stunted.

They aren't stunted. They didn't develop upper jaws and other issues. They are deformed.

 

[Havey]

If a child is deformed and "retarded" do we kill them to prevent their likes from infecting our systems and lives? No. Simple as that. They are living creatures who keep getting passed on because of other people's incapacity to nurture them until they finally pass. You can flame me for my response, but it isn't meant to convey offense. I am simply stating that if we applied this thought process to children of the likes, then this would be a very very shallow world. If I lived close, I would purchase a tank just for them and give them a good home until they passed. However, I don't think that is possible.

People inbreed angels to the point that they throw of tons of these deformed fish. They produce hundreds of fry. You should be culling for the best of the traits you are looking for when breeding the fish and culling the rest. Just because a fish produces five hundred fry in two months doesn't mean you have to raise five hundred babies. How is that like retarded children again? Do you raise all 500 fry until they pass...no. If you keep the ones that are predisposed to a genetic issue and breed them again, you help lock in those bad traits.

 

[ddyerfamily]