Are Glolite tetras dyed fish?

[Gill]

What I want to know is are glolites dyed fish? I never thought so, yet someone working at petcetera told some people today that they were. I of course spoke up cause I have a big mouth and contradicted him. I just want to make sure I didn't put my big foot into my big mouth .

I spent most of my time there today telling a couple not to buy so many fish, there was a huge sale, buy one get two free, and they decided to completely stock their 10G tank today. No cycling nothing. I convinced them to get only a couple of the more hardy fish, and to get a separate bowl for the betta they picked out. But.... that is another story.

I Actually Had an Interesting Conversation this morning, with the LFS I use Most.

You can actually Get Dyed Glo-Lites, They are very Flourescent and Blatantly look Fake.

The Shipment they have had in This Week Contains 50/50 Ratio of Natural Glo-Lites and Dyed Glo-lites.

I will See If I get Time after work to Try and Pop in and Take Some Pix to show the difference between the two.

 

[FishEnthusiast]

oh dear, we'll be seeing a "personalised fish" service soon enough then...

I hope not... that would be horrid. We people who know the story behind dyed/painted fish need to educate those who don't.

'Cause really, it's the people who aren't neccessarily into fish who buy dyed/painted species. And they usually buy them on impulse, without research. So it needs to become public knowledge how these fish get their colours.

My LFS on occasion gets painted fish in. The fish manager tries to send them back. If she can't she tells everyone that looks exactly what they are, what happened to them and what will happen with the dye fading and the shortened life span. She told me the fish rarely get purchased because she really discourages it. She also doesn't give credit if those fish die after being taken home because she warned the people buying them.

 

[SPLiSH]

My LFS on occasion gets painted fish in. The fish manager tries to send them back. If she can't she tells everyone that looks exactly what they are, what happened to them and what will happen with the dye fading and the shortened life span. She told me the fish rarely get purchased because she really discourages it. She also doesn't give credit if those fish die after being taken home because she warned the people buying them.

That sounds like a really good LFS.

Mine's good: clean water, healthy fish etc. but I doubt they'd turn down a chance to make money.