Dyed and Hybrid Fish..what we all should know

[wrs]

what makes those ballon livebearers ballons?

 

[silver]

Exactly WRS.....I had that in my initial post but I believe it was Chiclid Master who told me it was incorrect......so I took it off.........

I believe they breed them intentionally to get the "balloon" affect.....therefore, they are genetically altered also (but don't quote me until I go find proof ) )

 

[wrs]

ive never seen any baloon fish but mollies. Id love to see ballon guppies and platties. That would be so cool. What did you think made them ballon though?

 

[KribFreak]

I think it is very cruel to dye and dip fish.

 

[tear-scar]

Who on earth wants . . . a purple fish!?

I am unnerved that the blue dye on that albino cory makes it look disturbingly like the natural coloring for th tail spot on Corydoras similis. C. Gossei has a blue color like that narutally . . . wouldn't it be horrible if they could pass off dyed albinos as those more expensive and rare fish?

 

[Teelie]

I wouldn't mind a Purple fish, especially a Purple Tang, but that is of course a natural color, not dyed.

 

[MollyPlatyLuvr]

Am I the ONLY one who doesn't take offense to the Glo-Fish??

They were bred to detect pollutants in the water. They glow under uv light.

And yet so many people are taking offense to these fish. They are simply a genetically altered version of zebra danios, and I don't see why it's wrong to breed these hybrid fish and yet you NEVER see someone complaining about breeding guppies to get gorgeous tails, or mollies to get the nice black coloring, or bettas to get nice fins and tails.

I do object to injecting fish with dyes and painting them, but breeding them isn't a big deal to me. In fact, I wanted to get some Glo-Fish, but the only pet store locally that carries them, I would never buy fish from because they are a dump. Their tanks are nasty and overcrowded.

 

[wrs]

you NEVER see someone complaining about breeding guppies to get gorgeous tails, or mollies to get the nice black coloring, or bettas to get nice fins and tails.

So?Thats not being cruel. It doesnt hurt them.

 

[Teelie]

Neither does injecting the glow gene into glo-fish. I'm not against them but it seems to be a minority opinion around here.

 

[Opcn]

Where are legal implications of glofish danio2004?

And just for the record these glofish (there have been 20 different projects makeing flourescent or even glowing zebra danios) where made to study vertibrate development. I personaly like Glofish and want mine to breed but Rieros breed for life and her mate died so I may never be able to get my glofry.

 

[Phantom Thief]

you NEVER see someone complaining about breeding guppies to get gorgeous tails, or mollies to get the nice black coloring, or bettas to get nice fins and tails.

So?Thats not being cruel. It doesnt hurt them.

It doesnt hurt them? Do you have any idea what a pain it is to have such long tails? Have you heard of what some bettas do when they get tired? Do you know that it is so much extra finnage that you have to swim a lot harder, and put in more effort just to swim?

Edited because i forgot another point. they are also inbred so much, that they are now very weak and easily susceptible to numerous diseases. That doesnt hurt them?

P.T.

 

[mrV]

I must agree with PhantomThief. Long fins are bad. Fish physiology don't survive those extra part and you must have seen e.g. angels that have veil tail-fin and it seems only to trail.

 

[Vip]

Im with PT as well, they made a Oscar in Veil Tail form but it didnt last long, and from some sites that you read up on, the betta does better with short fins, even one site said its better to cut most of them off!

 

[clutterydrawer]

a veil tail oscar? that must have looked bizarre!!


I don't like droopy fish...they look sad...my friend's betta drags itself round the tank like it can't even be bothered moving, its fins are twice as big as its body. long finned danios annoy me aswell cos they're such fast streamlined fish, it seems a shame to spoil something so good.

 

[wrs]

well thats what you think. If the fish can swim with the big fins and lives long then there really is no problem. So many fish are inbreed, btw. Even in the wild. And alot of animals. And even some people. I dont see how being inbreed is really so bad in fish, if others, like the Amish, can be inbreed and be fine.