injecting fish with dye

[givemewings]

has anyone heard of painted glass fish, jellybean/bubblegum parrot fish, blueberry oscars, fruit tetras etc? sometimes they feed them food that is dyed but it can be pretty harmful. some of them are made by sticking a needle in them to inject colorful dye while others are made by taking the protective slime coating off and dipped or injected with dye then dipped in a chemical that irritates the flesh to stimulate re-growth of the slime coat. when I am in the pet store and I see these pretty colorful fish I want to buy them and take them home and give them the best possible home so they wont suffer too much but at the same time I know it'll encourage the makers of these fish. this is so inhumane!

painted glass fish

Jellybean parrot fish


fruit tetras

[luvnature]

Yes, it has been discussed here before...I dont think anyone here thinks its right.

http://www.paw-talk.net/forums/showthread.php?t=39433

http://www.paw-talk.net/forums/showt...ht=tattoo+fish

[Vanilla_Rat]

Nope.I am against that!

Just this Christmas they were selling those "jellybean" tetras,which are actually white skirt tetras,however they were dyed red and green and they called them "Christmas Light" tetras! I got into a discussion with the employee and she didn't know they were injected with dye and thought they were actually naturally like that!

[Dragonrain]

I actually use to think that alot of those colorful fish were naturally those colors as well.

I remember when I was a kid my mom had a fishtank and use to get those fruit tetras (she didn't know they were died either), but the couple of times she got them they never lived more then a couple of weeks and we could never figure out why. Guess we know why now, poor fishies