Check out this thread, where a member's blood parrot changed color as it aged:slowlyburn said:
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69116&highlight=blood+parrot+color
weird fish
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This actually isn't true. If the bubble pops, they can still survive just fine as long as they don't get an infection. The bubble will even grow back although it may be deformed.jm1212 said:
Personally, I think it should be illegal to dye fish. But for some reason, the government doens't put fish in the animal catagory and therefore you are allowed to do as you please with them. I find this unfortunate. There was a thread on here around valentine's day about someone seeing some fish with the words "I love you" tattoed onto them. It's just disgusting. And the fact that they use the same needle for thousands of fish causes them to spread disease, one of the major contributors of the diseases that dyed fish die from.
sirasoni said:
Most died fish will be lucky to live a year, although 3-6 months is more like it.
Personally, I'm with RockabillyChick on this, I prefer the real fish. Personally, the most unnatural fish I'll ever keep is either fancy guppys or viel-tailed bettas (this is completely true, I'm keeping both of them right now).
As for all this crossbreeding like blood parrots, flower horns, etc, I am strongly against it. I don't want real fish to end up being a rarity at some point in time. If any of my fish were to crossbreed on there own, the eggs would be destroyed or the fry euthanized regardless if the fish can function or not, and nobody would be informed of the crossbreed, to prevent somebdy else from attempting to crossbreed those species.
Ditto for genetically altered and died fish such as "glo-fish" and "painted glassfish".
dorkfish said:
Life after death!
jodimartin2003 said:
Maybe some of those politicians could use a dye job (and I'm not talking hair).
I like my green barbs. Hybrids, but very pretty, and they are in no way deformed from the crossbreeding.
I'm not big on "mutant" strains or dyed fish... ugly, tacky and pointless.
Color "adjustment" and causing actual physical deformities are much diffrent. I too like some of the fish that have been bred to have different color strains. Shoot, that's what all the betta's you can purchase in the store have had bred into them. You aren't going to find that color betta in the wild. However, those poor "brain" goldfish are sad, sad cases. The plain ol fantails aren't so bad, but the "bubble eyes" and such are too much for my liking. It would be similar to trying to breed people with huge heads or extra arms.
I knew that the painted glass were injected but tattooed with lipstick? That is just gross and weird. I cant believe the fish live through it.
plah831 said:
Wow... I have never heard of them changing colors like that!!! I have seen the brown parrots at the store when they were very small and also when they got mature and they were the same color as when they were young... + was told that they didnt change color by the owner of the store but if you say yours changed colors i stand corrected!
I think that's weird, too. Like people can keep fish in horrible conditions and it's very unlikely that the cops will do anything about it.jodimartin2003 said:
However, fish (in fact all vertebrates) are protected under the International Animal Care and Use Committees which dictate how they are used in scientific and medical research. I had to attend several seminars when I got into fish research. We were told how to properly house them, prevent disease, and humanely euthanize them if it seemed that the disease was too far along for them to recover. I still think that's a bit unfair, though, for invertebrates. Who's to say a snail or shrimp doesn't feel pain?
