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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

The fish in question


Overhead view


Little closer


Behind


Beside the other horsies






Ashleigh

it's a deformity Ashleigh,

mick

mickthefish wrote:it's a deformity Ashleigh,

mick

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


Ashleigh

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