Slightly deformed pectorals or completly normal

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Ashleigh
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Slightly deformed pectorals or completly normal

Post by Ashleigh » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:00 pm

Well my wonderful Fluval did a kerplunk today so I had a fun afternoon fishing out all tank inhabitants to move them to another tank till I get a replacement.
Although this did allow me to check up on my Acantopsis choirorhynchus which I hardly see anymore. Unfortunately they are a little skinner than I would like to see them, so I may have to reconsider my feeding in this tank.
Anyhow last yr I bought 2 Acantopsis choirorhynchus to join my other three, and one had pectoral fins that turned upwards at the ends-no bother as it looked healthy and I figured once in a tank in conditions that were more favourable that the little problem would right itself, and.... well it hasn't. My question is.... is this normal, I mean the fins are thickened at the front... could this be a possible sexual difference (the thickening, not the turning up) or is my little fish just an oddball :lol:

The fish in question
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Beside the other horsies
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Post by mickthefish » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:24 pm

it's a deformity Ashleigh,

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Post by Ashleigh » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:02 pm

mickthefish wrote:it's a deformity Ashleigh,

mick
Yea the curly look doesn't look right does it..... more like wings than fins :lol: pity it didn't right itself though :?


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Post by Bully » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:59 pm

Compared to the specimens that I saw recently in one of my lfs', yours are positively obese :P :P

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