Green Tiger Barbs

[teknikz]

are green tiger barbs dyed? and apart from blood parrots. what other 'common' fish are dyed

its just, ive emailed a store and they were shocked to find out about dyed fish,so i'm going to give them a list of the commonly dyed fish as they do not agree with dying fishes

Thanx

 

[Lateral Line]

Oddly, I wrote this in another thread earlier today!

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"Green" tiger barbs are not a naturally occuring fish. There have always been a few tigers which had the odd dark scale in the wrong places between the stripes. What people did was selectively bred these to produce progressively more and more of these "faults" until they were basically covered with dark scales.
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>>> what other 'common' fish are dyed

Sadly, far too many, and the number is increasing every day.

Many albino forms are either injected with dyes, or have their slime coats stripped by caustic baths and are painted. There was a thread earlier today concerning albino Corys being coloured, Indian GlassFish were some of the first to suffer this. Listing them is pointless as by the time I've finished writing the list, the list is out of date.

If you see a fish that looks, (compared to book pictures), too brightly coloured to be true, then it probably is.