where in the hell is your tail

[rockinthe40ounce]

recently at my LFS im seeing all these fish without tails! one was an african cichlid in a tank with a bunch of smaller ones, but it didnt have a tail and it looked perfectly healed and was swimming fine, then i look and see a manguaneese and he didnt have a tail either (both fish were in tanks with smaller fish of the same kind)

 

[rockinthe40ounce]

no one has an answer? its kinda weird seeing like 10 fish like this

 

[twitchynose]

if the tank is small and there are lots of africans in one tank, they will bite the tails of each other. If seen it a lot.

 

[rallysman]

Hard to tell without a pic. Sometimes fish have their tails cut off to look "better" (which I think is disgusting)

 

[Demon_fish]

idk but i thought i read something about people doing this in asia. some surgical thingy.

 

[repair]

Here is one of mine that has had the tail removed.... he is a midas and he is prob around 9 or 10"

I read an artical talking about how they did it but I can't find it right now.

 

[Lil_Stinker]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57686

 

[repair]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57686

Thanks

BTW I found this fish like this at the size it is now..... I won't buy a small one becaus eI don't want to encourage the people that are doing this to fish...... it won't stop them but at least they won't get my money.

 

[missyme06]

we get some in at my store some times, i think it just comes from pet shop breeders, they don't really care for taking the time to breed out mutations like that, they just want to breed fast to make a buck.

 

[Zeppelin3k]

eww that is gross. why would you even think of doing that. not only is it wrong but it also looks like crap.