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>.> we think Bubbles might have gills on only one sid
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:23 am
by Pandora114
Gunsmoke came up to me a while ago and said "Umm I dont think Bubbles will live the full 15 years, it looks like he only has gills on one side"
I'm like WHAT???
how is it possible?
I'm sad......
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:28 am
by Phaedrus
picture?
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:30 am
by Pandora114
Hang on I'll get batteries in the camera
It's hard to get a good pic of it..I'll try my best
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:39 am
by Pandora114
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/p ... IM0731.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/p ... IM0734.jpg
It's the best I could do...
Hyperlinked for the loadingly challenged.
He was too busy begging for food to get a good focus on him...
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:45 am
by GunSmoke78
It's really hard to tell from the pics, little bugger won't sit still if we're in the room. His left side has a very large gill "vent" just before his side fin (pardon the lack of terminology). I can see clearly into it from a rear-left angle, and it looks pinkish red in there. On his right side it's almost imperceptible, but there's a fine white slit just before his side fin, and it doesn't move as he breathes. Looks to me like Bubbles is a "mutie" lol. He might not live to be 15, but I'll try my best to give him a good comfortable life.
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:19 am
by Pufferpunk
Gill flukes?
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:19 am
by Phaedrus
He looks pretty big right now. What size? He may already be a couple years old. If all other behaviour is normal and he seems healthy, his mutation mustn't be harming him that badly.
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:23 am
by Pandora114
No, he's not that big, he's only about an inch and a half long.
I had the camera on a nice tight zoom...
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:01 am
by Boxermom
Anything is possible. I have a Jack Dempsey that it appears was born without an eye. We thought at first that he lost it in a fight but it appears as though he never had it. There's not even an eye socket, its just completely smooth where his eye should be. And I recently saw a picture of a critter without an eye or nose on one side. Mutations happen in animals just like they do in humans.
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:01 am
by Pandora114
Well from what I'm guessing, if he was wild caught, and the estuaries of India aren't really the cleanest most pristine waters of the world...that's probably the heart of the matter.
You know, how some people have noticed some very horrific mutations coming out of the Great Lakes (Fish mutations that is...of course some of my former two legged friends used to go swimming in Hamilton Harbour...yich)
I'm not an ecogeek by any means but we'll be seeing more and more of these mutations in our aquatic pals I have a feeling..poor fishies...
At least I know that despite being in a glass box, their water quality, is much better than what they'd be getting in the wild...
And grammar I do have it, just not on my first cup of coffee
