Twin headed Arowana WTF

[jjohnwm]

Move over, parrots and bubble-eyes and short-bodies and all you other malformed mutant monsters; we are looking at the The Next Big Thing in aquarium fish.

Personally, I would wait for the hi-fin glo-fish version of this, but that's just me.

Now, if some enterprising breeder could just produce a two-headed version that has one head at each end, we'd really have something. Think of it: you could jam a two-foot-long thing like that into a 15-gallon tank. No need to worry about the fish having space to swim or turn around; whenever it tried to swim it would just hover motionless in place as the two ends tried going in opposite directions.

 

[jjohnwm]

...I've never seen a functioning head hanging off the lower part of the fish's body, with only a thin thing of flesh and skin connecting the two.

Who said it's functional? I think this appendage is entirely cosmetic, with no or very little brain tissue and probably no muscle tissue to even open/close the mouth.

It's an essentially inert mass that contributes nothing to the function of the complete organism; it'll likely fit in nicely with the collection of similarly non-functional noggins that are an integral component of MFK...

I'll say this: if I saw that thing in a tank and one of those extra eyeballs swivelled to take a look at me...I would be totally creeped out...

 

[Fallen_Leaves16]

Who said it's functional? I think this appendage is entirely cosmetic, with no or very little brain tissue and probably no muscle tissue to even open/close the mouth.

It's an essentially inert mass that contributes nothing to the function of the complete organism; it'll likely fit in nicely with the collection of similarly non-functional noggins that are an integral component of MFK...

I'll say this: if I saw that thing in a tank and one of those extra eyeballs swivelled to take a look at me...I would be totally creeped out...

My bad- I meant "functioning" as in able to at least breathe and seemingly appear "alive" in some crude sense. I found the video of it after looking around online; the weird horror of a head's gills flap, and its eyes move, too. Apparently, it's not that uncommon, either- a Google search yields a few other images of arowanas with similar deformities.

Still an abject abomination, though. If I ever saw a fish hatch/born with any sort of deformity like that, it would be promptly killed/euthanised.

 

[phreeflow]

My curiosity got the better of me and I found the video…big mistake. Absolutely disgusting how it twitches its eyes and pumps its gills