Enough already!

[Innesfan]

"Albino long-finned Cherry Barbs?" Really? Is this what we want?

 

[MattW]

I've started to see longfins and albinos a lot more in shops recently. Mainly rasbora, barbs, danio species, along with plecos.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

What about albino gold long fin white cloud mountain minnows?

 

[MuddyWaters]

Long fin anything doesn't do much for me. I do like the sailfin platties (or Mollies? I can't remember), but not really a fan otherwise. Having said that I do have a dang betta...still not sure why I bought it, but it hangs around sitting on plants LOL.

 

[plebian]

sitting on plants

They do like to sit - on anything.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

It's the modern addiction to novelty. It isn't just fish keeping. A company makes a running shoe or hiking boot that is absolutely perfect, then discontinue it, or worse, change it, to make room for the new year's model. (That one is a particular pet peeve of mine)

Gotta keep selling fish, and that means coming up with the new, improved version. 'Tis the world in which we live, I'm afraid. Those of us who know better can continue to vote with our money, but it ain't gonna change a thing.

 

[gwand]

My local fish store with 700 plus tanks offers common and unique selection of fish, both tank raised and wild caught. The manager sadly admitted to me that they make their profit selling the glo fish and other novelty fish. He said, “that’s what the people want“.