Flowerhorn Fin Splitting & Shaping: Grow & Strengthen The Fins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 เม.ย. 2018
- This is kind of an old school method of grooming your Flowerhorns. By slicing the webbing between the fins it allows the fins to grow back wider and stronger.
Done properly this does not hard the fish at all and often they grow back the fins within a few days.
I like the thinking behind this. Can you please do a follow up video to this after the tail has healed.
Cool video as always, thanks for sharing the knowledge!!!
Great video, New sub. Will definitely be watching more of your videos, great job on the video and fish as well💪🐠🤙
This is awesome
That fish is awesome
Hey Dan, my Blue Texas had his fin nibbled to just the bones and I quickly quarantined him and he has since healed and is doing fine but his fin never grew back the same it doesn’t fan out or have near the width it did before. Was wondering if this technique could be used to try and regrow his fin to fan it out and widen it back to normal?
What is the cut for?
Very interesting.
From how many inches we can do tail trim
Cool video..after watch this video, i immediately trim my flowerhorn fin..thanks..keep it update..
Whats the size of that tank?
Do you like bass fishing? Seen some megabass stickers and tackel warehouse stickers on your tank stands.
A buddy of mine is huge into bass fishing. Those tanks I got from him. Me personally I enjoy fishing but not like he is
Update??
A little bit controversial, but i liked it. Nice Fish!
I debated on even releasing it but thought hey, its best to just do what I do
Yes, and i agree with you about what you think
Do an update on the guy plz
yespacito
Superb looking fish
Thanks bro
No pain LMAO
Should do some scientific research about if fish are capiable of consciously feeling pain! I think you'll be surprised - Dan
hi dan!
before i get into this, i just want to say that i by no means am intended to attack or criticise. i'm a big fan of the channel and your fish are *incredible*. being able to watch you work with and enjoy your fish is very cool.
i'm not drawing any moral conclusions, just sharing what i've come to learn recently.
so with regards to whether fish do or don't feel pain... there's an ongoing discourse that goes back centuries! in more modern times, from the 70s up to the early 2000s, the science generally agreed with those historical beliefs that fish didn't feel pain.
but in the last decade i feel like we're starting to come to a place where a consensus is forming that fish do indeed feel pain.
the smithsonian magazine website has a really interesting article on it from january 8th 2018 titled "It’s Official: Fish Feel Pain"
here's a little snippet:
"At the anatomical level, fish have neurons known as nociceptors, which detect potential harm, such as high temperatures, intense pressure, and caustic chemicals. Fish produce the same opioids-the body’s innate painkillers-that mammals do. And their brain activity during injury is analogous to that in terrestrial vertebrates: sticking a pin into goldfish or rainbow trout, just behind their gills, stimulates nociceptors and a cascade of electrical activity that surges toward brain regions essential for conscious sensory perceptions (such as the cerebellum, tectum, and telencephalon), not just the hindbrain and brainstem, which are responsible for reflexes and impulses."
the article though goes on to say:
"Fish also behave in ways that indicate they consciously experience pain. In one study, researchers dropped clusters of brightly colored Lego blocks into tanks containing rainbow trout. Trout typically avoid an unfamiliar object suddenly introduced to their environment in case it’s dangerous. But when scientists gave the rainbow trout a painful injection of acetic acid, they were much less likely to exhibit these defensive behaviors, presumably because they were distracted by their own suffering. In contrast, fish injected with both acid and morphine maintained their usual caution. Like all analgesics, morphine dulls the experience of pain, but does nothing to remove the source of pain itself, suggesting that the fish’s behavior reflected their mental state, not mere physiology. If the fish were reflexively responding to the presence of caustic acid, as opposed to consciously experiencing pain, then the morphine should not have made a difference."
the biology combined with the behaviour point to a conscious experience of pain.
*however*
having said all of that, i've heard (but haven't researched much) that the end part of a fish's fins are very much like our finger nails, i.e. they can be trimmed and snipped without causing pain. if you cut too far though i imagine you might hurt the fish.
as i said earlier though, what moral conclusions can we draw? after all, we're a society that mass produces animal protein and breeds extreme pets like bubble eye goldfish that can barely swim and english bulldogs that can barely breathe... it's not quite black and white, is it? i eat meat like crazy but feel bad about the idea of animals jam packed into small spaces with no life at all... i suppose i'm not very principled.
anyway sorry for the long comment.
i'm a big fan.
thanks for all your videos and efforts.
Very cool info. I'll look into it.
Yeah I believe regardless the webbing doesnt have feeling and the fish do fine.
That’s not natural and shouldn’t be done
Flowerhorns aren't even natural, what a shame...