TSN update

[jerzyperson]

this is my bute, got him back in march, grown almost 110% its orginal size. got it at around 3" now nearing the 8" mark.

anyone know why his head is so... domed like that?had the typical shovelnose up to about 7" then his head just popped up like that.

 

[Cichla dude]

Nice tsn.... IDK about the head, he may just have a deformity or was injured at some point.

 

[kevinfleming21]

might have smashed his nose into the tank at some point. Definitely should be more elongated snout.

 

[dirtbikerider]

Looks like some sort of injury to me, is he still eating and everything like normal? I got my tsn a few months back at 3" and he is now pushing the 11" mark and mine still has the typicalshovelnose. Not real sure about that head but the tsn looks good otherwise.

 

[jerzyperson]

eats like a pig, shrimp, pellets, talapia fillets, flake, never live.

 

[Cichla dude]

Taken from Planet catfish,...
''you see that often; when a TSN suffers from stunted growth due to being kept in a tiny tank, it developes a rounded head with a bent down horselike headshape instead of a flat wide duckbeaklike headshape; it also developes a hunchbacked spine, sometimes severe, most often just a slight bend.''

this poor little creature got an extreme case of "horse head nose" (i'm making up the name, but you'll get it)

a healthy wellshaped TSN should look like this:

a very slim fish that looks like a speeddemon with the beak pointed forwards and the lower jaw visible

it will keep the shape when properly housed


even huge TSNs have a straight head and a flat back without a bend or hump as seen here

 

[jerzyperson]

he's only inches and is in my 125 gallon growout.. how is that to small? a couple of weeks ago he was a sleek looking beaut. now has this bump nose. the fish hardly moves, rarely mose since it was 3" always hid, grew it out in a 30 gallon to about 4", then moved him to the 125 for a little more expanded growout.

could it be his hiding spot how cramped it ma be? he is not the only one that hides there. i could re-arrange, but he hides under a large peice of driftwood, and no matter where i put it, he's gunna hide under it. would giving him more room help elongate his nose?

 

[scriving]

a lot of them get this i dont think its from your tank.

 

[aquaculture]

Probably form poor genetics. Inbreeding or something down the ancestry line.

 

[jerzyperson]

ok, will i have to deal with this for the rest of his life? or do you think he may outgrow it?