Dyed and shocked

[steelhealr]

Hi...I was at the 2 lfs's the other day and at one store, I was amazed at all the different colors and fluorescences of 'painted glassfish'. At the next store, I was wondering why I had not seen a 'blue botia' in the fish books I've been reading. Then I found this post:
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...23&hl=glassfish

Pretty shocking. Is this pinned somewhere for all 'newbies' to see? SH

 

[Cheese Specialist]

Yeah, painting and dyeing is a terrible part of the hobby although I must say that the blue botia is legit. Also known as the orange finned loach is memory serves.

Yup, here you go... http/www.loaches.com/species_pages/botia_modesta.html

 

[jacblades]

just make sure you let the managers of those stores know that you will not buy from them until they stop selling dyed fish. often these people dont even know the fish are dyed.
if i see a dyed fish on aquabid, i always email the seller my complaints...like this one: http/www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auc...fish&1107161654

 

[steelhealr]

Man...to dye a corydoras....that's cruel. SH

 

[the caretaker]

I stumped up the courage to tell the manager of a lfs in the midlands area of the uk I told him that I am a member of an aquatics forum that would send a message all over the country in a matter of minutes and there would be a boycott of his shop! he said "I've been thinking of stopping ok I will"! I was shocked out of my boots

 

[wetwetwet]

good on you caretaker



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[tara spooner]

soo sad to dye fish...i refuse to buy painted fish although they are pretty...but at what cost?

 

[abe]

Speaking of dyed fish... is this normal or natural???

http/www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auc...rers&1107160857

Theyre somewhere between really nifty looking & creepy looking to me But something just isn't right there, am I wrong?

 

[Synirr]

Those swordtails don't look dyed to me.... just freaky!

 

[SirMinion]

Looks like the use of a colour filter on the camera lens or they've increased the colour saturation in photoshop.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Yes it does look like a photo shop job... And it confuzzled me a bit with the ruby red ALBINO bit.... Hmmm

 

[magwitch]

Some time ago my other half (who is not fish-orientated) bought some 'pink' widows and 'blue' widows for our aquarium (I already have black widows). It seems these are actually white skirt tetras which have been injected with dye. No doubt the people who did it thought they needed brightening up, and upped the price while they were at it!

The problem is, these fish are not happy. They constantly nip each other, and the black ones nip them too, and several of them have sustained damage, like missing pectoral fins or a missing eye. Fortunately, I have plenty of room in the tank, so they can keep away from each other most of the time. I assume that, since fish communicate by colour, each of these poor fish sees the others as some kind of alien, so instead of shoaling peacefully they're all afraid of each other!

I am very tempted to euthanise the lot of them, because although they're not suffering physically as far as I can see, they must be suffering mentally. I really think that dyed fish should be made illegal, and the people who sell them prosecuted. Surely fish should be protected by the RSPCA against this kind of cruelty?