Angel Rams

[georgedv]

When I was at the lfs last week I saw what was labeled as Angel Rams. These fish have the coloration of regular Rams (blue, gold, red...), but their body shape resembles the body of the parrot fish. They are elongated from top to bottom, like an angle fish and I also noted that their mouth was like a parrot beak.

Anyways...what the heck...this has got to be a hybrid of some kind. I always believed nature provided us with plenty of beautiful things to see and experience....I guess that is not enough!!!

Just wanted to share this.

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[fishme.]

i agree with you.it is really stupid when there are so many beautifull fish to make fish that cannot swimm right,can't close their mouths etc.these fish in amazon would have been eaten from piranhas immediatly just because they are ill fish.
i try to have fish that have their naturall colours.the fish talk by changing their colours.they sow fear,if they are angry,if they want to breed.albino fish breed less just beacause of their speechless appearance

 

[Lisachromis]

These are not hybrids. They are rams. However, you may better know them as balloon rams. They are deliberately bred to have a curvature of the spine, just like balloon mollies. Whenever I go the petstore, they no longer seem to carry the normal rams, but these monstrosities. Heck, the last time I was in, it was long-finned balloon rams.

 

[georgedv]

You are right, these are not hybrids...wrong terminology..but you never know. Like the parrot fish, no one seems to know what they truly are.

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[bigbird]

Morning,

I feel sorry for these fish. As stated in nature they would have been eaten up straight away. That somebody can breed these fish is disgusting in itself, yet sell them. I believe that if a member goes to the LFS and sees these poor deformed creatures, that they state their dissatisfaction to the owner.
Makes me sick.

 

[fishgeek]

unfortunately so old that many of the links are dead

was here many moons ago
i think one of the initial pushes to make these fish acceptable
i remember the guy having rams breeding in large plastic ponds in his backyard

andrew

 

[lab]

No need to change this:

It even has a scar. Isn't that nice:wink:

I don't even think that it's necessary to argue about the ethics involved in producing these types of fishes. Frankly I don't need to know about it!

You can just look at it as a commercial product that is not produced for the sake of achieving "natural" beauty, but simply for the sake of selling. There are no other arguments for producing such creatures.