Appalling...

[HeatherSweetness]

These poor fish...

painted parrots

They look like skittles with eyes. Kinda disturbing.

 

[rykitten]

I think they are cute! They look like cartoons. Are these the fish that are being injected with dye???

 

[silver]

Yes, they are dyed, but not injected! Many will die as a result of being dyed and many will live, but for a shorter life span as other fish and some will be more or less fine. They are dipped into 3 baths. One is an acid-like bath to strip off the slimecoat so the dye will stay. Secondly, in a dye solution and 3rd in a solution to promote slime coat re-growth. It is disguisting how they do this and it's appauling.

That said, I suppose I'm rather hypocritical.........

I do have one. I will never buy another dyed Blood Parrot, but I did once. I really love him and I think he's adorable.

I must add that I do not like the "look" of all of those dyed BPs. It looks like a freak show . Mine, when I bought him, was a deep purplish color and looked somewhat natural. I really prefer the natural color of BPs. It is very bright and vibrant. I don't like that rainbow thing.........looks too fakey, not to mention how they get that way.


Silver

 

[aberdeen aquarist]

I really prefer the natural color of BPs. It is very bright and vibrant. I don't like that rainbow thing.........looks too fakey, not to mention how they get that way.


Silver

there is no natural colour of parrot fish because they aren't a naturally occuring species, this sort of selling on a website will only encourage more unscrupulous breeders producing other hybrids for the unsuspecting public to buy.
it's a real shame that there isn't a way to ban the production of such un-natural things, i'm sure that there will be a way to complain about the seller on the website. i for one am amzed at the amount of people who (new to the fishkeeping hobby or not) still continue to buy man made fish such as this one.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I really prefer the natural color of BPs. It is very bright and vibrant. I don't like that rainbow thing.........looks too fakey, not to mention how they get that way.


Silver

there is no natural colour of parrot fish because they aren't a naturally occuring species, this sort of selling on a website will only encourage more unscrupulous breeders producing other hybrids for the unsuspecting public to buy.
it's a real shame that there isn't a way to ban the production of such un-natural things, i'm sure that there will be a way to complain about the seller on the website. i for one am amzed at the amount of people who (new to the fishkeeping hobby or not) still continue to buy man made fish such as this one.

Why?

I don;t like them myself but I don't hate them either and they do have a natural colour of sorts. That with which they are born and develop.

 

[aberdeen aquarist]

sheesh, that didn't take long!!!!!
CS, I am only trying to point out that with all the naturally occurring species of fish in the world, it seems a real shame that mankind has to try and play god and create new fish (or any other animal for that matter).

btw, i notice that your location says you are scottish, where do you come from?

 

[Nina7777]

hmmm well that explains why i have never been able to find the same blood parrots my doctors office had! I don't own any, however i used to have a doctor who had a 150 gallon tank in the office with these beautiful purple and pink blood parrots. Always wondered where he found them!

Now that i know they were dyed I dont want them! Thats awful how it is done! I feel so bad for them!

But aren't there natural blood parrots? The fish store I go to had babies that were brown???

 

[aberdeen aquarist]

hmmm well that explains why i have never been able to find the same blood parrots my doctors office had! I don't own any, however i used to have a doctor who had a 150 gallon tank in the office with these beautiful purple and pink blood parrots. Always wondered where he found them!

Now that i know they were dyed I dont want them! Thats awful how it is done! I feel so bad for them!

But aren't there natural blood parrots? The fish store I go to had babies that were brown???

nina, there are no natural blood parrot's, they are a man made hybrid of 2 different species (as far as i'm aware, they still aren't certain which two).
they may be brown when they are born, but brown fish don't sell very well. they get round this by dyeing them in the process silver mentioned above.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

sheesh, that didn't take long!!!!!
CS, I am only trying to point out that with all the naturally occurring species of fish in the world, it seems a real shame that mankind has to try and play god and create new fish (or any other animal for that matter).

btw, i notice that your location says you are scottish, where do you come from?

Oh I wasn't trying to get at you, it's just lots of people seem so down on these fish that did not ask to be created and are still living.

I agree, I don't think animals shoud be manipulated to make money but I am afraid that's how it is and we would no ahve many fish if there was not selective breeding. I do not agree in any way with painting etc and I am also against the breeding of fish that are not able to function properly.

Yes, I am Scottish. From the other side to you though Mr. Don. I am Glaswegian, and lived in a dive called Helensburgh for about 7 years until I got away and went to college in Newcastle. I hardly ever go back to Scotland because I hate where I am from and the people that live there

Hmmmm wonder where you are from 'aberdeen aquarist'.

 

[aberdeen aquarist]

Yes, I am Scottish. From the other side to you though Mr. Don. I am Glaswegian, and lived in a dive called Helensburgh for about 7 years until I got away and went to college in Newcastle. I hardly ever go back to Scotland because I hate where I am from and the people that live there

Hmmmm wonder where you are from 'aberdeen aquarist'.

try Mr. Nith and you'd be closer to the truth!!!
i'm from sheep stealing country!!!
the rest sounds familiar though, i moved here to be far away from the dive i was brought up in, and hate going back too!!!
the only thing i miss is watching my beloved Queen of the South play every weekend!!

 

[Cheese Specialist]

i'm from sheep stealing country!!!

the only thing i miss is watching my beloved Queen of the South play every weekend!!

Stealing eh, you sure it's not another word beginning with 's' and ending in 'ing' that you are thinking of???!!!!



Queen of the South? I am a 'Gers fan myself. )

 

[Pointy_kitty]

IMO,
i don't see anything wrong with hybrids,
do you understand that most types of dogs/ cats and ALOT of horses/rabbits/guinea pigs (etc) would not exist without crossing 2 different kinds?
i DO see what you are all saying about the dying methods
i do to find this both disgusting and dangerous
but i do not see blood parrot cichlids as an "abomination" or someone "trying to play god"
not to start a war
just stating my opinion

fact: most dog types come from wolves, foxes and other wild dogs
they are hybrids of hybrids of hybrids........

 

[ooSho]

I have a pink 'jellybean' parrot. My cousin bought it for me as a graduation present....I did research on them and found out they were dyed....I would never buy one of these myself...It is so cruel to inject a fish with dye...It just makes me so mad I love the fish to death, even though he has a little attitude.

 

[FrankSlapperinni]

IMO,
i don't see anything wrong with hybrids,
do you understand that most types of dogs/ cats and ALOT of horses/rabbits/guinea pigs (etc) would not exist without crossing 2 different kinds?
i DO see what you are all saying about the dying methods
i do to find this both disgusting and dangerous
but i do not see blood parrot cichlids as an "abomination" or someone "trying to play god"
not to start a war
just stating my opinion

WRONG!
A hybrid among fish is created by mixing two completely different species, while a horse or cat or dog is from the same species. A hybrid among fish is about as natural as a lion and a domestic cat breeding, the fish do not want to do it, they are forced too by having hormones injected into the water that makes their systems go haywire.
That is where a lot of this misconception comes from, it is not like two different dogs breeding together, because there is only one species of dog, they just have different characteristics. A Mutt bred from a corgi and a Pomeranian, for example, is about as much of a hybrid from a fat person with blond hair and a skinny person with red hair having a baby.
They are two completely different things, and it is a disgusting and horrible thing, creating these mutant fish (which, by definition is exactly what they are)

EDIT:
I forgot this part

fact: most dog types come from wolves, foxes and other wild dogs
they are hybrids of hybrids of hybrids........

Yes, but they are domesticated/inbred into what they are today. just like neon tetras and zebra Danio's are mere shadows of what they look like (and how their immunity system is built up) in the wild because they have been so widely distributed and inbred.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I have a pink 'jellybean' parrot. My cousin bought it for me as a graduation present....I did research on them and found out they were dyed....I would never buy one of these myself...It is so cruel to inject a fish with dye...It just makes me so mad I love the fish to death, even though he has a little attitude.

Sorry to break it to you...

I don't know that a 15g hex is big enough for the parrot as I have read they get to about 8" and need 35galls or more. I would also be concerned about your 10g...

Cories are meant to be in groups of 3+, tetras are usually schooling fish depending on type but I think all are, depending on the kind of plec you have it could get to 15"+ and I am pretty sure channel cats get massive. Pictus catfish will eat smaller fish that it can fit in it's mouth.