can they regrow their 'legs'?...i noticed that my SAL had one of its legs bitten to a nub and i was wondering if they grow back or will it forever be a tripod?
'legs'?
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It will grow back to normal. Doesn't matter how many times it will grow back no matter what. Even most of it's body parts will grow back as long as it lives. Had a baby SAL at 12" lost the tail all the way pass the anus and it grew back slowly to normal and it look like nothing happened. This what makes them very interesting as well.
from my experience a leg should grow back, but their have been times we have recieved them with piranha bites and the bites never regenerated back to normal.
snookn21;4234356; said:
interesting...i wonder if it has something to do with the stress of shipping and then by the time they are settled in the wound is to old to regenerate?
on a side note i am suprised at how a few months ago the little leech of a lungfish has become quite the little beasty at around 8-9"...it is really starting to put on some girth...
sbuse;4235250; said:
I agree with this observation. I had a very small SAL maybe 3". Just a little guy. He hung out in a heavily planted tank and stayed mostly in a pot at the surface so he could just lift his head for air lol. It couldn't even eat a whole earth worm. Then it seemed like over night it was pounding whole large shrimp and it was 18"
Honestly the growth was explosive. Your going to love it! Of course what goes in comes out, sometimes it seems like more comes out............just wait till it gets to 18" LOLEgon;4238687; said:I agree with this observation. I had a very small SAL maybe 3". Just a little guy. He hung out in a heavily planted tank and stayed mostly in a pot at the surface so he could just lift his head for air lol. It couldn't even eat a whole earth worm. Then it seemed like over night it was pounding whole large shrimp and it was 18"
thats why i said stingray/common pleco hybrid turds...lol...i see these mamoth turds in the tank and i am like no way the shrimp i gave you made these monsters...ya know like the kind that you think you have to break up to be able to flush
...i think that when it is bigger i'll just get a dog "pooper scooper" to remove them as i think at that size they will clog my syphon