Two headed fish !!!! (with pic)

[shuhu]

if you manage to raise it, keep us posted on the progress (with pics)

 

[Fishy411]

dont sel it or breed it but raising it would be cool.

 

[Erised]

I'd try and keep it alive for a while, see if it adapts ... if it starts acting like a normal fry, eating normally, swimming normally ... then give it the live it deserves.
If, say ... 2 weeks from now, it's still not swimming properly, cull it. No need for the little thing to have a lifetime worth of struggling, right?

About it being rare, it's more common than babies with 2 heads, which isn't even that uncommon anymore.

For the oddball lovers underneath us, how about some 2 headed arowanas?

source:Arowana.com.sg

--Edit--

There's more pictures of more 2 headed arowanas (yes, they had it happen more than once) on that website as well.

 

[chishnfips]

dont kill it, two heads are better than one. lol

Get intouch with some research company.

 

[guppys]

have you killed it yet, if not dont kill it may be fine after a couple of weeks, and if you havent killed it can we have more pics please.

 

[Undawada]

I thought deformities were common with fish, since they have so many offspring? Surely it isn't that rare...

personally I'd cull it

 

[DeepSeaFishin]

Stick the thing out its pain and feed it to your cichlids as you said earlier...

 

[CatLover]

I would try to raise it. Since it's in captivity, it does have a chance of survival. Can you tell if the bigger head is the only one alive? The second smaller head on the side could be just a dead growth, which would boost its chance for survival. Hundreds of specimens from different species go through a full life having dead growths on and in them that just didnt fully absorb while they were an embryo.
If one day you can see that it is struggling way too much, then I would kill it.

But whatever you do, DON'T breed it!

 

[modernhamlet]

Two heads, two tails, curved spines, and other massively debilitating mutations are not at all uncommon in fish. It is nature's way. For every "good" genetic mutation (i.e. evolutionary improvement), there must be thousands of "bad" ones. This poor specimen is one of them. In nature it would have been eaten almost immediately. Even in the safety of an aquarium, I highly doubt it will live much longer. Keeping it alive by taking extraordinary steps would be cruel and unnatural.

Do the right thing.

 

[IMCL85]

woah 2 headed arowana. I want it

 

[BigC]

I have only ever experienced this twin headed phenomenon once with a nothobranchius fry. I disguarded it straight away as it was not a viable fish to keep as regards to breeding.

 

[Tetramad]

It was still alive when I got home from work today, but there is no way this fish is going to be able to feed or lead any sort of normal life, so in the next few minutes or so it will be in fishy heaven.

Mark.

 

[WILDER]

R.I.P. little fishie.

 

[Opcn]

I would think it to be fishies, a two headed animal is really more two animals with one head.

 

[MrMashashin]

be sure to pickle the body!