Bloody Parrot.....yea....or.....nay?

Do you agree with the bloody parrot creation?

  • Yea

    Votes: 21 30.0%
  • Nay

    Votes: 49 70.0%

  • Total voters
    70
I bought Jelly Bean Parrots whom are doing very well and growing. But I didn't know how they were made and colored and the torture they go through until afterwards. Poor fish.
 
Gosh, that's a hard one for me. I bought 2 as Jellybean Painted Parrot Fish not knowing anything about them. I just thought they were too adorable to pass up. I have since realized that mine are regular Bloody Parrots who are yellow/orange in color(These are not dyed, the Jellybean's are....) Tho, I'm really not sure whether I agree w/the creation of the hybrid or not, it definately sickens me how fish are dyed and the torture they are put thru during the process!! :mad: I am glad that my 2 "little" babies didn't have to endure that process!

Beth ;)
 
It's a man-made species, correct? Something that shouldn't have been but is. I don't see anything wrong with it, just some cross-breeding.
 
There is NOTHING wrong with a crossbreed, hybrid, or "man-made" fish. What is wrong is the Technique of dyeing the fish. A very painfull time for the fish. a hybrid fish maybe unnatural in nature. However, we see this done in alot of fish. Fancy guppies, bettas, goldfish, parrots and Recently Flowerhowrns. Many other as well. As long as the "mixture of 2 fishes" does not cause deformities that would causeeating or swimming unbearable..it is fine. Also, if the fishes lifespan is eithor the same or increase, all the better.

Most of the hybrids I am not interested in keeping as a pet. The Flowerhorns are a nice fish and would get that. But it does grow large and probably needs its own 60 gallon tank.

here is a link to flowerhorns
http://www.flowerhorn.com.my/gallery.htm
I just checked that link out. I do not like fish with lumps on their heads..so I guess i dont like ANY crossbreeds..
 
Blood parrots look pretty deformed until you put them next to fancy goldfish ;)

I don't buy dyed fish because I don't like those sorts of colours, but injecting fish with dye or stripping off the slime coat and giving them dye dips doesn't seem any worse to me than the usual treatment and general short, sad life of most aquarium fish. It's hard to verify how "painful" that is, since fish have a different sort of nervous system from ours. Probably significantly less painful than declawing cats and whacking the tails and parts of ears off dogs.

It's a trade where we buy wild-caught fish who die like flies on the way to the LFS, cheap common fish like guppies, platies and mollies are exterminated in droves by beginner aquarists, large, fast-swimming schooling fish live their lives in ones and twos with hardly enough space to turn around... almost everything that happens to aquarium fish is bad. The number of fish in the trade who actually live a normal lifespan must be less than one in a thousand and they way they die is almost always unpleasant... slowly drying up on the rug, stewing in ammonia, suffocating, boiling, having fins chewed off, poisoned with medication, succumbing to ich, well you get the picture. So you have a nice tank of fish who are healthy and cared for... it's still your dollars that supports a trade that kills and tortures more fish than it ever helps. The breeding of freaks is only a tiny part of that trade.

One thing about blood parrots, I rarely see them mentioned in "my fish is sick" posts, they cost enough to make them poor starter fish, and their owners seem to adore them and take care of them. If I was going to start on a crusade against fish cruelty, blood parrots would be far down my list. They have it better than most. Just my 2 cents.
 
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