Ew, tattoos on fish? >.>

[evepirate]

At the lfs here, they have this rounder white fish, that have crayola crayon looking marks on them. I asked, what the heck?

They actually tattoo the fish! Not at the lfs, but they get them from somewhere that does.

freaky. It looks bad anyways...

>__>

why???Well that's obvious. I guess the questions is, how? and what?

yikes.

 

[Reefscape]

Should that not be classed as Animal Cruelty?

And yes, i have seen other places that do this too.....

 

[Mgamer20o0]

they have them all over the place.

 

[Spunky]

it was just this last week that i saw a tattooed fish here in nowhere south dakota... on one of those parrot cichlids. they had kisses on them among other odd things.... Its just so sad what people will buy/sell.

 

[evepirate]

Do they like, sedate them first?

or just hold them down??

how come I can't even keep some guppies alive from a move, but these fish get tats and are fine lol.

 

[Dwarf Puffers]

aslong as its not a big freaky needle with a live (or even sedated) scared baby fish, I dont really see what's wrong :huh: .

I mean, if it doesnt stress or harm them (though im sure it does), what's so bad about it?

 

[Fungi]

It's just gimmicky, the beauty of the fish itself should be why you are interested in it, not 'Your name tattooed in a fish for $5'

 

[Reefscape]

I mean, if it doesnt stress or harm them (though im sure it does), what's so bad about it?

hmmmm....Have you even had a tattoo????

 

[Coler]

I mean, if it doesnt stress or harm them (though im sure it does), what's so bad about it?

If you're sure it does...then that's what so bad about it

 

[Juninho10]

I Think that this is awful, Makes me so angry that this sort of thing goes on. I boycott every store that sell them. Thankfully you dont see them much here in the UK but i have seen it once or twice (more regularly 5 years ago)