Dye injection?!?!?

[camber1981]

So, I was at my local *store edited* the other day looking at their recently re-added fish display tanks, and I saw that they had Parrot cichlids. I thought, "Hey, that's pretty cool, they're starting to diversify their stock a little...."

And then I LOOKED. :eek:

It was HORRIFYING. The poor things were injected with neon dyes. They looked terrible, and the worst part was that you could tell that whoever did the dye job did just a terrible job, it looked like it had leached from the injection site and spread in uneven, blotchy patches through 60-70% of their visible flesh.

Practices like this should be extremely illegal and harshly punished.

[jpappy789]

It's a widely discussed/debated practice, but unfortunately it's a hard thing to stop. Fish are often viewed as disposable creatures who are a novelty item, rather than a pet. As long as people are willing to buy them companies have the incentive to sell them.

[edh]

I am horrified whenever I enter *store edited*.

And the overall treatment of fish at most of the local stores around here is terrible too.

[bitbot]

I can't believe people buy injected fish - to me they look so tacky and wrong.

[gt1009]

I hate dyed fish!!!! I also hate blood parrots!!! I don't even want to think about the dyed blood parrots!

[Donna Cucheran]

One of the LFS's in my area sells tattooed Blood Parrots. There was one once that looked like Argyle socks. Another had red and blue stars, and one was given a dark red mohawk stripe.

[Jaykit]

I've seen this before and it is quite common here at my lfs(s). They also carry a range of x-ray fish with neon dye injected into the spines. Sometimes there is also various other fish too with extra coloring added. Pretty crazy to think that someone could actually do that.

[beabroca]

before i decided wether i think this is "cruel" i need to know a few more facts


is this dye painful or is it like a little needle and no pain involved besides?

is this dye bother the fish? cause more disease?

if there is not much pain and it is like a coloring but does not cause a constant burning sensation, then why the problem? i can see that the poorness of doing it would be sad because it causes the fish pain for no reason.

but such as a "new hair do" or "tattoo" or new nail color, its just a way to make the fish unique and stand out more and fit to ones personality.

i think.

[krytan]

before i decided wether i think this is "cruel" i need to know a few more facts


is this dye painful or is it like a little needle and no pain involved besides?

is this dye bother the fish? cause more disease?

if there is not much pain and it is like a coloring but does not cause a constant burning sensation, then why the problem? i can see that the poorness of doing it would be sad because it causes the fish pain for no reason.

but such as a "new hair do" or "tattoo" or new nail color, its just a way to make the fish unique and stand out more and fit to ones personality.

i think.
Dying fish is VERY stressful on the fish involved, first they dip them in a caustic solution to strip their outer slime coat then the fish are dipped in dye or they repeatedly inject the fish with the dye. This process has a very high mortality rate.
Dyed fish won't keep their dyed for long.

[Fish-Addict]

before i decided wether i think this is "cruel" i need to know a few more facts


is this dye painful or is it like a little needle and no pain involved besides?

is this dye bother the fish? cause more disease?

if there is not much pain and it is like a coloring but does not cause a constant burning sensation, then why the problem? i can see that the poorness of doing it would be sad because it causes the fish pain for no reason.

but such as a "new hair do" or "tattoo" or new nail color, its just a way to make the fish unique and stand out more and fit to ones personality.

i think.

Do not be decieved by store assistants that there is no pain involved, BECAUSE THERE IS.
Fish feel pain like all animals and so should be treated with the respect they deserve.
The vast majority of dyed fish die not long after the process.

[beabroca]

omg im so mad right now....why would they do that to the fish, they told me when i asked that it was a painless procedure, dipping and .....argh that disgusted me!

[beabroca]

oh and i know fish feel pain, thats not what i said, i asked how much pain....i hope you were talking about people who DONT care when you said fish needed to be treated with respect, and you know i do respect any animal! i love nature and adore fish...i just thought it was painless....now i know different and feel different. i was only mislead....which happens

[lovejonesx]

I'm one of those radically against dying fish & purchasing dyed fish
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The fact that if I don't purchase them, that there is a better chance that this might go away, makes me feel a litle better.

I just pray that enough of the rest of you feel that way.

LJx

[Fishfiles1]

i have my views on pain and animals, but that cause im a hunter and fisherman but yet again the no pain is when its done humanly like a gun shot or a bow, witch people get shot by bows and dont even know till some one tells them or they see the arrow, the animal just runs because it is startled, but for the fish i still agree that this is cruel and un humain, let the animale look like it should, and dont kill it by stressing it out

[weezel73]

I hate dyed fish! And what I hate even more is when I take my girlfriend with me to the LFS, she automatically walkes up to the **** glo-fish and says " I want these in my tank" ! Needless to say I about drop a load right there....

[Lupin]

Glofish are fine unlike dyed specimens. No harm has been done when they inherit the genes.

[crazyryceman]

My LFS has dyed parrots and there's a sign on the tank that says they only last about 4-6 months. So sad

[Jellymolly44]

I never buy a parrot fish that's been injected. It shortens their life span. I now have another reason to not buy any fish that are died, so this crap will stop and people will stop this wretched work these poor little fish. I've seen mollies injected before.