Catfish with one eye!

[FlareBettaGuy]

A catfish my friend has, has only one eye. Is that bad? Really bad? Do they use their eyes a lot? Do they really need two eyes?

Also, do catfish like to hang out in groups? (and no, my friend's catfish is not a cory, i'm not sure what species it is. It's currently just a baby, a few inches in length. We were told that they grow over a foot in length)

 

[Alien Anna]

I now have two one eyed fish (thanks to "Trouble in my betta tank" - see Tropical Emergencies). One of them is a rummynosed tetra I bought that way and I've had him a couple of years now. The other is a cherry barb I'm going to call Long John Silver because he's also missing a tail from an earlier incident.

Anyway, one eyed fish are fine. They rely more on taste and smell to get around anyway, and a mysterious sense involving their lateral line, resembling sonar.

 

[CFC]

AA is right (nice to se youve woken up now Anna ), catfish can get on quite well with one eye, even being completly blind dosent bother them too much as a member of this site found to his horror, he had bought a blind tiger shovelnose catfish because he felt sorry for it, that was until it ate some of his fish one night

 

[Inchworm]

Hi FlareBettaGuy

Your friend's handicapped fish will undoubtably become a special pet of his. It's amazing how living things adapt to such problems.

Life is a precious thing.

 

[Sea_Monster87]

) It should be ok, it'll just be very special