I keep reading articles about painted fish and recently ran into them at a local mom and pops pet store. These fish are injected with a dye with large gage needles and only 10% of them survive on average. Not only that but the ones that survive don't even keep their coloring. I am just interested in how many people find this practice appalling as compared to amusing. I am not trying to judge but i would love for someone to tell me I am crazy for thinking this is horrible or just interested in what you have to say. Here is an article to read for fun.
http://www.firsttankguide.net/painted.php
2008-07-26T19:06:55Z
90% of people do not die while getting tattoos. Tattoos are also made using a small gage needle and not a large one. The fish that do live average only a few months of life after the injections also.
2008-07-26T19:06:56Z
90% of people do not die while getting tattoos. Tattoos are also made using a small gage needle and not a large one. The fish that do live average only a few months of life after the injections also.
2008-07-27T03:26:40Z
i wont buy glo fish either but mainly because I feel like I am condoning the altrication of a species. I understand that they are all offspring of the injected parent
Anonymous2008-07-26T19:09:32Z
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The needle used for painting a fish is equivalent to us people getting a shot with a pencil, except all over our bodies. Most fish don't survive the process of "painting", it shortens their lifespan, and the paint usually wears off if the fish even survive. I think natural fish are beautiful, and painted fish are ugly. It should not be legal.
I just found out that the petstore I do most of my shopping sells painted fish and I am no longer getting fish supplies from them.
This kind of reminds me of painted hermit crab shells. Im also an avid hermit crab lover and think painted shells are horrible. The paint is toxic and can kill the hermit crabs, and they are bacially tortured into the painted shells.
the fish used for painted fish are always glass fish and no all are injected some are collored useing high dye levels in the food they are given I don't like the pratice either way because it is miss leading the people that normaly buy them do not know they will lose their color
but now we have the glow fish which is not injected or dyed they are zebra danios that have been geniticly altered to produce the colors they keep their colors I wouldn't own one because they are man made so to speak but they are better than the painted fish another man made fish is the parrot fish there are a lot of differint thinking as to what they were made with but the most common thought is that they were made from a convict and a severium
Ugh, that's horrible. Basically, to make more "boring" fish sell more, some breeders and stores adopted the practice of injecting fish with dyes, essentially fishy tattoos. The coloring will fade and the fish are often poor specimens that die early or simply exhibit poor health. DO NOT buy ANYTHING from that store.
It is down right STUPID to paint fish. for one it is mea. But omst of the fish die...so taht is lost profit, and the fish lose there coloring ...so whats the point if most die and the noes that live lost their coloring???
Well, being the vegetarian/animal lover/environmentalist I am, I think this is horrible. When people think of animal cruelty they think of owners beating their dogs or something. This is most definitely animal cruelty.