These fish have been dyed to say things.

poor fish I hope the people responsible get a tattoo against there will
my lfs had parrots that had flowers dyed into them until someone bought out the store and
stopped them from getting them

I saw these fish on Tung Choi street goldfish market in hong kong over new years. Some had been tatooed with pictures of flowers and other symbols too. The coloured ones look so cool, almost as striking as marines. Too bad they cheated and used dyes which harm the fish instead of trying to develop colours naturaly

I took photos but cant figure out how to post them on here

it's horrible regardless of how pretty they looked. i double checked that my lfs didn't do it.

I agree, dying is wrong. Despite how trendy dyed ones look, I wouldnt buy one.

I would however kill for one of these!
New coloured parrots
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9555/rscn2645uh6.jpg
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6269/rscn2644bf3.jpg

dying fish is just wrong and why do we (man) keep thinking we can do a better job tham mother nature



Rob

Because man thinks they are pretty much allowed to play god.

it's the girl i am interested in

man is not God
(the wife keeps tellin me God is a woman)



Rob

Just out of curiosity, can parrots be kept sucsessfuly with goldfish? The tank in the picture has a couple of shubinkins in with them.

those arent dyed, they are flowerhorn x blood parrot, or something along the lines.

Last Valentines day one of our smaller family owned fish shops had one that said I love you on it. I thought it was horrible. I've bought some that were tattooed before and have recently changed views on these. That's animal cruelty. Not cool

I think that the naturally achieved colours are much more beautiful than artificial dying. The added benefit is that the colour will endure and of course the fish is not weakened.

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nothing wrong with an asian fettish
woops not letting on am i ?

How does tattooing the fish harm them? (besides the stress caused by the act itself)
I totally disagree with it regardless..was just curious
Personally I think it's totally creepy..especially if someone got me a fish that said 'I love you' on it!
Its kinda like the poor chicks that get dye injected into their eggs for Easter and come out rainbow colored..
I'll just keep getting tattoos on myself..only have 5 so far with plenty of naked skin left
..and dang it!.. where's the hot Asian guy..probably cropped outta the pic...jeeeez

This post has been edited by dzsigmond217: Feb 18 2008, 03:58 AM

I totally agree with you. I have nineteen and still have lots of naked skin too. lol
However, I cannot agree with you about the asian guy. LOL

Right! Kinda makes me wish some japanese guy would pluck me outta my pool and tattoo me for free..how hard do you think it would be to look like a fish...?!?!

Am still interested in exactly how the fish are harmed by this...?
There's a LFS that is selling tattooed fish and I'd love to give him an earful about it.
Ofcourse it would look and sound better if I had some facts other than I think it's dang cruel!

Fish are dyed 4 different ways.
1. feeding them dyed food-not that common and only works on light colored fish
2. dyed baths- the fish are stripped of their slime coat, then put in a dyed bath, then put in a bath that irritates their skin to produce the slime coating again. Very painful, about 20% survive this method.
3. dye injection- the fish is injected many times with a needle to create strips or patterns. no doubt painful
4. Laser dyed- the fish is held down out of the water, and a low powered laser is used to first bleach the skin then color it with pigments. again painful, and to much exposer to the laser can cause blistering.

The fish in question (parrots), I feel have been dyed twice. Parrots are naturally a peachy color, not yellow. When you come across colored parrots most have been given dyed baths. They are then lasered to create the words. So say you start with 20 naturally colored parrots, they are bath dyed and you now have 4 left, they are then lasered and you most likely lose 1-2 to that. So in the end you are left with 2-3 fish that make it to the store and 17-18 that died. The fish don't stand much of a chance getting a good home either. And the dyes shorten the fish life span to about half its normal length. Also it could be worse.

So in the end a lot of fish died to give you that tank of dyed fish, which will die unnatural deaths. So really the best thing is to not buy anything from stores that sell dyed fish. Dyed fish are quite common in the US, parrots seem to get the worst of it. Complain to them and tell them you won't buy from them, they aren't psychic if you don't complain they won't know.

Links.
Why it's cruel to dye
Laser dyed
Death By Dyeing

This post has been edited by Mikaila31: Feb 18 2008, 10:33 AM