People selling dyed fish

[Cheese Specialist]

I was just browsing aquabid and found this listing, there are at least three of them. Dyed Parrot Fish

 

[Loupe]

Ugh, thats horrible. AT least nobody's bid yet.

 

[pendragon]

I think it's awful that aquabid allows auctions for dyed/painted fish at all. There have been complaints made, but no action has been taken to my knowledge.

Write them at [email protected] and post in their suggestion forum; ask them to prohibit (or at least condemn, if not remove) these auctions.

pendragon!

 

[Dwarfs]

That's a lot a $$$ for a fish with a very short life span, I would buy 1 that wasn't dyed.Die/dye, very simialar

 

[Annastasia]

That's AWFUL!

 

[Sang72]

I'm curious as to how they dye them? Do they inject them, dip them or just feed them lots o food coloring? Not that I'd ever buy one tho.

 

[silver]

When the whole fish is dyed like those they dump them all in tank with sort of an acid-type of water that takes there natural slime coat off. Then they dunk them for seconds in a tank that is dye water. Then dunk them into another tank that is suppose to produce rapid slime coat recovery.

Pretty sick I know.

I bought one over a year ago. Just one, and he's almost all natural color now. Part of me wants to buy all those poor fish and give them a good home, but I know that's wrong and I must not buy another dyed fish. I don't know WHY they dye blood parrots...............WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY They are beautiful in their natural coloring. WHY?? WHY?? WHY



Silver

 

[iloveyou]

are you sure they are dyed like that..... cause when parrot fish are young then start as a black.. and can grow into many colors... i dont think they are dyed but im not 100% sure... i just remember a pet store where i used to work .. they started black and ended up going yellow then red... no dye.... i donno

 

[Cheese Specialist]

are you sure they are dyed like that..... cause when parrot fish are young then start as a black.. and can grow into many colors... i dont think they are dyed but im not 100% sure... i just remember a pet store where i used to work .. they started black and ended up going yellow then red... no dye.... i donno

They are definatley died. Parrots are not meant to be that colour.

Look at Death by Dyeing for info.

 

[ryan]

They are died, thats for sure. The poor things. They look ugly, fluroscent and ugly. I would like to know who is going to pay sixty dollars for them.

 

[Angel03]

omg thats so awful , they must go through pain , how the hell did they put pink spots on that poor kissing fish

 

[Samage]

The pink spots were added to kissing fish by way of a big needle full of pink stuff...


And the parrots are dyed via a gruelling 3-stage dipping process.
STAGE 1 - this is a mildy corrosive dip, which removes their slime coating.
STAGE 2 - the colour dip. Chemical dyes are added to the fish.
STAGE 3 - an irritant dip which stimulates regrowth of the slime, to seal the dye in.


It's not as a simple as dipping em in food colouring as many think...it's much more gruelling and painful than that

 

[SirMinion]

are you sure they are dyed like that..... cause when parrot fish are young then start as a black.. and can grow into many colors... i dont think they are dyed but im not 100% sure... i just remember a pet store where i used to work .. they started black and ended up going yellow then red... no dye....

Start black then go yellow, then red.. Yes, that's natuaral coulouring

But not purple, green and blue, and not the deep red of a dyed fish... That's not natural

 

[FrankSlapperinni]

parrots...............WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY They are beautiful in their natural coloring. WHY?? WHY?? WHY

Not to start an argument here, but Parrots have no natural coloring because they are not natural fish. They are a hybrid (the parents being a red devil and a severm, the dyed variety have a little convict blood in them too, to make them a little more "resilient" and have a lower mortality rate from the dye.) These fish usually live very miserable lives with kinked spines and crooked jaws, they also suffer from irregular swim bladder issues, which creates that "cute" swimming pattern.
Buying any form of these fish, dyed or undyed, will help support the factories, I mean breeders ( ) who create these fish.