Two headed fish !!!! (with pic)

[Amerce]

heres the pic!

Mark.

Hi just seen your piccy, what happened to the fish, I had so much fun reading this post that I was in hysterics.

 

[WILDER]

It's not rare, poor thing.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Don't quite see the point of comparing this poor fish (to whom I think you did the right thing, Mark) to human Siamese twins. Surely we all know that breeders cull deformed fry and that the fish we buy are the survivors, but nobody suggests that human babies should be culled in the same way.

Anyone who keeps an aquarium tacitly accepts the fact that some fish have to be killed to feed our pet fish (ever checked the label on a jar of tropical flakes or algae wafers?)- but not many people would accept the killing of humans for the same purpose. Which just goes to prove that we do not regard humans and fish in the same light. (though wasn't there something about the ancient Romans and moray eels...?)

If Mark's cichlids need to be fed a fish (as they clearly do), what fish would be better suited for the purpose than this poor thing whose chances of a successful life seemed relatively slim? The reason why fish have so many fry is so that a certain amount of culling can happen; in nature, this happens naturally; in the aquarium, it may need helping on its way. I quite happily practise survival of the fittest in my livebearers' tank- that's no less cruel than feeding this fish to the cichlids, but the result is the same. Doesn't mean I felt obliged to do the same to my own infants. (though if I'd given birth to 25 in one batch, I might have been tempted...)

 

[Bloo]

Hi just seen your piccy, what happened to the fish, I had so much fun reading this post that I was in hysterics.

You must have laughed so much, you missed this bit

I watched it for ages and it could not swim properly or the right way up, so there is no way it could swim up to food and eat it, so basically it would have starved to death, it has nothing to do with me being able to read the fishes mind, I just did the most humane thing so it ddin`t suffer starving to death.
Mark.

 

[Jules H-T]

You did the sensible and humane thing Tetramad, in my opinion. Good on you.

 

[prankster705]

I would try to raise it if I would think it had a chance, but as it didn't you did yhe right thing.
PS: Do you have any more pics??