WTF is Drop Eye????????

[frnchjeep]

I 'm sure there are rare cases, but if the aro cannot recover from the DE, in the wild it will die.

This is a good point. In captivity, drop eye isn't a life threatening condition. In the wild this gene would be killed off. In captivity, it is multiplied to the point of almost all of them having it. Does this mean that we are keeping a deformity alive that would have otherwise been stopped through natural selection?

 

[jphillips2020]

This is a good point. In captivity, drop eye isn't a life threatening condition. In the wild this gene would be killed off. In captivity, it is multiplied to the point of almost all of them having it. Does this mean that we are keeping a deformity alive that would have otherwise been stopped through natural selection?

I certainly don't have any of the answers. But I think what you just said is exactly what I believe, that it was a genetic deformity that would and probably does not exsist in the wild.

 

[fishman646]

Its cuz in the wild they naturally have to look up! for food! Put them in a pond or black sides on the tank and the DE will be gone!

 

[selki]

Its cuz in the wild they naturally have to look up! for food! Put them in a pond or black sides on the tank and the DE will be gone!

exactly but space does matter!

 

[CeD_^]

i noticed that when i switch off the lights, the eyes of my arow go back to normal. since i put my aro in a 5', he began to get a little DE. could it be that too much exposure or strong light could made him look down? for now im leaving my lights on for 1h with intervals and its looking good.