why do i have runty looking fish ?

[evilbunny]

it seems that in every small group of 3 or more fish i have one fish that isn't quite like the others

i have one extremely small tetra and it's kinda umm twitchy and nervous all the time ( like all the small nervous, twitchy characters in movies, u know the ones that have done something wrong and terrible, like rons rat in harrypotter and it turns into a person - that's what my tetra reminds me off)

i have one small bala shark that is waaay smaller than the other two

and the same with my angels, but i do have another one with what looks like a defect on it's dorsal fin, the top part of it bent over, kinda like free willy (i cant' remember the whales name ) but not bent side ways but backwards

i just wanted to ask why ?

 

[sylvia]

The whale from 'free willy' is called 'willy' lol.

I notice this sort of thing in my fish too... not necessarily that they are smaller or twichy but that each one has a unique characteristic that distinguishes it from the rest (in appearance - character-wise they are all very very different).

Only thing is, I don't know why...

 

[evilbunny]

lol

not free willy, but isn't the actual whales name like shamoo or something along those lines ??

 

[newfishies]

i think his name is keiko...

 

[evilbunny]

ohh keiko that sounds familiar too, so where did i get shamoo from ??
hmmm....

 

[BEAR81]

i am just back from florida wher free willy stayed and was trained, and the family is calle shamoo!! they realesed willy or what ever his name was!!

 

[emo]

Keiko was the whale in free willy...

However keiko died last december after years of coaxing it back into open sea from captivity.

 

[clutterydrawer]

I dunno why but i have a runt tetra aswell, its a proper loner and jsut sits behind the same leaf all day, comes out to eat, tehn goes back to the same leaf again. weird. i guess some fish are jsut..small.