kinda a grusome question

[wwestar2000]

It's not like i would do it. I wouldn't have the heart too. But talking like an experienced breeder maybe doing this. So i've heard of male bettas having there fins trimed and it being painless. Can someone cut off the gonopodum of the male? so it will not reproduce anymore? Just a thought

 

[DeepSeaFishin]

First of all, why would you do it? Thers no point in doing it, second, It would most likley get infected...If you dont want a male to reproduce, move it to another tank and just have all females...

 

[willtang3000]

why would you do that it would probably grow back anyway because thats just like a sperm bag and when they just make more sperm the fin will just grow back again so please don't put the fish in pain first hand

 

[wwestar2000]

First of all, why would you do it? Thers no point in doing it, second, It would most likley get infected...If you dont want a male to reproduce, move it to another tank and just have all females...

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I clearly sayed i wouldn't do it. I just was asking if it was possible. Why would it get infected. Its a fin. People trim there betta fins and other fish nip fins. I have fish with a little nipped fins and there super healthy. I've heard in researching bettas that if a fishes fins get niped far enough it wouldn't grow back. Not much diffrent from a guppy fin i suppose.
Im just saying if fish can be injected with dye and get there tails cut off can a male guppies gonopodum be cut off?
Don't post if it offendes you. It is just a question of curiosity.

 

[caspercanuck]

ew.

lorraina bobbit all over again

lmao

 

[wwestar2000]

uhhhh.... Don't know who that is but whatever.

 

[JackDemp528]

Any wound on any creature is open for infection, whether it be a fin on a betta or a cut on your leg. It's a wound. And wow that's the most horrible thing I've ever heard someone thinking about doing to a fish.

 

[DeepSeaFishin]

Exactly my point, any open wound has RISK for infection, in my opinion who would trim fins, just let them be........and secondly, im not offended, its just that even if you did trim the gonopodium, it may not function properly if it even grew back.

 

[Annastasia]

Um...The gonopodium isn't a fin, it's an organ. So it's not quite the same. Big difference there.

Also, If you wanted to do that, I'd expect you would have to tranquilize them, and figuring out how to do that would be another whole problem. The best is to just seperate females and males, if you don't want them to breed.

Now I've got to get gonopodiums off the brain....

 

[black angel]

obviously some thoughts should be kept private.
i know you wouldnt even think of doing something so nasty and cruel but it makes me wonder what goes through peoples brains sometimes.

 

[pnyklr3]

ew.

lorraina bobbit all over again

lmao

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uhhhh.... Don't know who that is but whatever.

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Doesn't this just date those of us who remember?

And guys, lighten up. I'm sure there has been a time in all our lives when we've had a strange question. Don't squash a curious mind....remember "There are no stupid questions; just stupid people." ~Mr. Garrison





Not at all implying that anyone here is stupid...please don't jump down my throat.

EDIT: I don't agree that this is "one of those types of questions" that shouldn't be vocalized. "I think I'm going to go and have sex with a goat"..THAT shouldn't be said aloud, but basically this was a question about the anatomy of a guppy. Wwestar said that it wasn't an intention, but a harmless question, and people are jumping all over that like it was a lifelong goal.

 

[DeepSeaFishin]

I didnt even know a gonopodium was an organ thanks for clarifying it anna

 

[pica_nuttalli]

legend has it that when fancy-strain guppies were first being developed in Asia, breeders used to snip the end of the gonopodium so that buyers couldn't start breeding their own. but they quit that once someone realized that most Americans are lazy suckers who are perfectly happy owning colorful mutts grown in a pond.

 

[DeepSeaFishin]

Americans are lazy suckers?

 

[Angry_Platy]

Male lyretail swordies have very long gonopodiums, often the length of their sword Due to this they cannot impregnate a female. I read an article once where they managed to get a lyretail male swordy to breed by "trimming" his gonopodium. Kinda weird if ya ask me.