OMG! You gotta see this! :O

[lass31]

Weird! Never seen anything like that before! :ssuprised:


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[barney]

I never even thought you could get Siamese twins in fish, joined in that way.

[waack]

1. I cant believe it has survived like that, the bottom part anyway.
2. That looks like a fairly simple seperation why hasnt it been done and if its not simple shouldnt both or one been culled a long time ago?

[kurly]

Never seen anything like that before. I feel sorry for them, especially the fish on the bottom.

[Jeddi]

I believe someone else posted this once before... Not sure about you guys, but I'd probably cull it as a baby.

[kurly]

If it were me, I would too Jeddi.

[waack]

i agree no offence but never should have been allowed to live

[hockeyhead019]

Agreed I definitely would have culled it :/ kinda sad...

[Rue]

I agree...that should have been culled.

[CrazedMichael]

Definately.... Also if one wanted to cull it now, i don't think it would work, maybe they share the same swim bladder

[Rue]

I meant the entire twinned fish should have been culled...not just one of them.

It's not worth the effort to separate siamese fish...

[CrazedMichael]

Aye, but how soon can one tell that a fry is in fact Siamese? Are Arowanas big at birth?

[Rue]

You might not notice the moment they're born (although I'm guessing you probably can see it) - but as soon as you do - cull. Two fish 'stuck' together should be obviously fairly quickly.

[CrazedMichael]

Most people add plants or anything that adds shelter and never see their fry for days, maybe even weeks. Granted, once seen it should be culled

[DrNic]

I've seen this vid pop up in a few places. Unfortunately it's generally believed that this is not a naturally occuring fish and that instead it's actually two fish that have been sewn together. I know that sounds really gross but if you look toward the end of the video you can see where the skin from the top fish actually overlaps the one on the bottom and on some of the higher quality vids you can see what look like surgery marks from the stitches.

Unless I'm mistaken this couldn't have happened naturally anyway. To the best of my knowledge fish eggs never generate two embryos due to the nature of the way the eggs develop. Thus you never see 2 fry come out of a single egg. I could be wrong though.

[vegas2k]

that's one sick xxxxxxx if that person sutured them together...cruel.

[Lady Hobbs]

That's been posted before but it's a darned shame those fish were not culled when first born. It's disgraceful to put these fish thru this for amusement.

[HeatherB]

I would have culled it..

It also must be a pain- you probably have to hand feed the bottom fish!

[lotus flower]

I am of the belief that those fish have been sewn together. If you look at it, it's very plain to see that while the top fish has been split along his ventral surface and forced to overlap the bottom fish, the bottom fish's skin does not in any way come to meet or join the top fish--its body is purely "inside" the other fish's skin. And you can see the outline of where the sutures were--the indentations in the skin of the top fish where it was sewn to the bottom one.

In nature, if this were real Siamese twins, then one of the eggs would have incompletely divided and would have been fertilized, creating a zygote with incomplete division into 2 separate animals. This is not incomplete division--the fish were obviously 2 separate fish, that were then joined together. Otherwise, the flesh joining them would be smooth and connect the two of them.

It's tragic and sickening...

[smaug]

Not busting anyones chops about this ,but,the best way to assure stuff like this doesnt get posted so much is to stop posting links to cruel happenings such as it. If it were sowed together ,it was done by some sick bast%$# so he could get attention for it by putting it on the web.We shouldnt be giving him/her what they want.

[Pleco380]

Poor guys. It's amazing they survived!

Edit: I agree it does look sewn together. Awful! But I agree with smaug, if it was sewn together we shouldn't give this person popularity.

[lotus flower]

I agree that this shouldn't be fed into, but I think the primary reason for him (or her) doing this was to draw people into whatever store it was where they shot the footage. You can hear a lot of people in the background, and it was such a large tank, it seemed to me that it was probably in the middle of some store somewhere. They sounded like they were speaking a language that was not English.

Really, I don't think clicking the link is earning this guy any money, so no one needs to feel guilty. Just don't buy anything from this guy's store, and it's a good idea to not post the link on other forums...