KeeperOfFishyPeace
Fish Crazy
You dyed fish are bad? Well, it is bad, but this is worse.
There's this LFS that I don't usually go to because the quality isn't usually the best. Since I was in the area, I decided to check it out. I was strolling through the aisles of freshwater tanks and came across some fish named "Love cichlids", they looked exactly like parrot cichlids but something was odd, something was missing. Sure enough, the caudal fin (the one at the back) was somehow removed so the body looked like a heart. Yes, the fin was somehow ripped or amputated off! There were about 40-50 of them in the tank. Some were swimming erratically and others couldn't moved horizontally. Now that's just %&$#ed up! That's probably the worse kind of abuse against fish I've ever encountered in the hobby. There's also probably an enormous number that died and didn't make it to the store. Another thing, no serious fish keeper will buy a fish like this one. It's going to be some people who are like "Oh look! He looks likes a heart! Let's get him!" They'll put one em in a bowl and it'll die in the first month, probably week. Either way, this poor fish has no way to survive.
Stuff like this is what brings down a good day. RIP all those needlessly lost fishes!
There's this LFS that I don't usually go to because the quality isn't usually the best. Since I was in the area, I decided to check it out. I was strolling through the aisles of freshwater tanks and came across some fish named "Love cichlids", they looked exactly like parrot cichlids but something was odd, something was missing. Sure enough, the caudal fin (the one at the back) was somehow removed so the body looked like a heart. Yes, the fin was somehow ripped or amputated off! There were about 40-50 of them in the tank. Some were swimming erratically and others couldn't moved horizontally. Now that's just %&$#ed up! That's probably the worse kind of abuse against fish I've ever encountered in the hobby. There's also probably an enormous number that died and didn't make it to the store. Another thing, no serious fish keeper will buy a fish like this one. It's going to be some people who are like "Oh look! He looks likes a heart! Let's get him!" They'll put one em in a bowl and it'll die in the first month, probably week. Either way, this poor fish has no way to survive.
Stuff like this is what brings down a good day. RIP all those needlessly lost fishes!