Short Bodied Fish?

**LethalResistanz** · 07-29-2009, 09:02 PM

Well I was looking around and came across this video on youtube.

It shows "short bodied Albino Bichirs" if you look closely you can see a painted blood parrot.

I never heard of this before so i searched it in youtube and saw this of short bodied Balas

What do you guys think of these kinds of these fish? Do they cause health hazards?

I don't plan on getting one or anything I was just kind of surprised(and slightly horrified) when i saw it.

**jackson17** · 07-29-2009, 09:15 PM

I've never seen any around me at any LFS. If it was one or two, I'd say just a genetic thing, but theres to many for that.

**Northernguy** · 07-29-2009, 09:15 PM

I have never heard of a short bodied bala before.
There is no info on them either.
The bodies seem to look short when they get bigger. lol
check out this one.http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...%3Den%26um%3D1

**invadertoast** · 07-29-2009, 09:49 PM

That kinda horrifies me... breeding for color is one thing and fine in IMO, but this looks like it could be very detrimental to the fishs' overall wellbeing. I saw balloon red eye tetras at a LFS and they just looked wrong. Then again I'm being kind of hippicritical as I'm a huge fan of fantail goldfish.... I dunno.