Butterfly Asian Arowana

[DwarfCichlidLvr]

I don't care for that. It's cool to look at but I wouldn't want to keep it.
It looks like a huge betta. Not my thing.

 

[audiction]

freakin' gorgeous...thanks for sharing this OP. this reminded me of that 1 of 1 fancy long finned pygo ternetzi of pedro.

 

[krichardson]

I can imagine the pricetag on that bad boy.

 

[Justepic]

Saw another one of these on insta today,
http://instagr.am/p/CAax4XnJCcX/ This one looks better to me.

On the contrary, it is not the fact that they do not appear in the wild because many beautiful normal-looking fish such as longfin bristlenose, Barb's and tetras look spectacular and don't appear in the wild. It was just because the 2 different "Betta fins", the caudal and pectoral, were drastically different colours as well as size and not fitting in with the size of the body. Maybe when that arowana is full grown, the fins would match. I love normal Asian aros as well.

 

[Eclipse390]

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Definitely not my thing. I hate all the "long fin" varieties of things. Long fin Oscars get me the worst though.

 

[DwarfCichlidLvr]

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Definitely not my thing. I hate all the "long fin" varieties of things. Long fin Oscars get me the worst though.

I hate most too!
Super veil angels with PERFECT fins are nice though.
LFOs are awful.

 

[Giwrgos1991]

Just a personal opinion. How is it natural? If this mutation were to occur in nature, that individual fry would be the first one caught and eaten and would never survive to adulthood. Natural selection, weeding out the individuals least suited to survive. Evolution in action.

Here, we have an individual fish hand selected by a breeder to survive, likely while its siblings would be culled. We have created a totally artificial situation in which a trait that would be the kiss of death in nature is instead a positive survival trait. Devolution in action. Some people, like myself, find it unappealing.

Edited to add: I totally agree with BIG-G on other "abominations" like Flowerhorns, Superfancy Goldfish, Parrots...and go so far as to include overly-bred critters like some Bulldogs or Persian Cats. Fish that can barely swim...cats that can barely breathe...dogs that need to be artificially inseminated because they can't...well, you get the picture. Ugh.

i think this is the most contradictory opinion...human is by himself a devolution...in nature you probably wouldn;t survive a day...but our civilization gives you the opportunity...why not give it to this arowana too? just saying!

p.s. i don't like this long fin variety too

 

[Leo Messi]

Looks decent on a SA Arowana but absolutely disgusting on an Asian Aro. Just my opinion though and I really don't like the selective breeding of such "deformities". Same goes for Shortbodies imo... it occurs every now and then, sure, but I find it abnormal to breed for such traits.

 

[qldmick]

While I like some longfin varieties (breed albino longfin bristlenose and zebra danios myself) I don't like these guys at all. I'd take my southern Saratoga, Scleropages leichardti any day, he just needs to hurry up and grow so he can go into the big tank.

 

[Leo Messi]

What a lot of people don't know is, that this isn't just something that naturally occurs and those fish get sold to hobbyists that want them, hell no, there is a market for such "deformities" and some breeders use hormones and such things to create more of them...