What should i do with disordered fish in my batch?

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masood

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hi everybody. I just got a batch of 50 box silk fhs from a lfs. he said they were came from Malaysia. I'm not sure that they are pure silks but they have great blue pearls. they are less than 1 inch. Some have physical disorders as one eye smaller than the other and beak like mouth that don't show them great. What should I have to do? What can I do? Don't be shy and post your replays. thank you.
 
Cull them, unless you want to keep them or someone else wants to take em off your hands.

BTW I've had an srd fry with the same eye deformity you described, grew it from an inch to around 2.5 inches, just to see what would happen, stayed pretty much the same, one eye normal, one that never caught up, had to cull it.
 
I want to select some breeders from these fhs, some show great coloring. Can these deformities pass to their fry? What do you think about disorders cause originate from?
 
masood said:
I want to select some breeders from these fhs, some show great coloring. Can these deformities pass to their fry? What do you think about disorders cause originate from?
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There is always a chance they can. If it is in the genetics then it can carry forward. I actually have a friend who has an amazing kok line. However, from every batch there is always some deformed ones...

Some even have great kok, great shape...but a slight deformity... I believe they can carry down from the parents.
 
That is why all fish keepers need a garter snake:)
Haha but seriously, whenever I have guppies or mollies (I've been breeding them for the last 3 years) that are deformed, I feed them to something. Before the snake it was my Oscar, then the bearded dragon and now the garter snake. I just fed him a beautiful bright yellow super cobra guppy, but it had a crooked spine and one pectoral was tiny.


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Any pictures of the beaked ones?
 
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