Fish Varients

[Joemuz]

I was Just wondering what some people are more intrested in?
Fish that are pure breeds like in the wild?
Or fish that have been bred for more colour varients but arn't pure breeds of one fish?
Which do you like to go for? Pics would be nice too!

 

[severum boy]

Most (no, all!) of the fish I buy are natural colours, if people feel the need to change what they have already got without bothering to find out about more interesting fish on sale, then we will just end up with a mass of inbred, sickly fish where good specimins sell for stupid money and the offcuts are flushed down the pan. That would not be a 'hobby' of culture I would like to be a part of.
Shure, long finned neons, balloon mollys and rams, and dyed glassfish may look, *cough*, pretty, but the fools who expand this industry are leading us to a road where people new to the hobbie buy these fish without knowing the ethics behind them. If the rate of which we are producing new fish continues, we will end up with a hobbie full of people obsessed with the asthetics of it all, and not caring what the fish themselves are, nor how their new 'fish' were made.
Ok, so the occational long fined variety is ok, but when we take it to the extreme of glowing fish, injected with jellyfish genes, used as objects in neon signs on shops, we see its true horror.

 

[Joemuz]

I think some bred fish look quite nice but i personly would like to keep mine as natural as possible.
When i mean BRED FOR COLOUR VARIENTS i mean like some species of platy Ee.g the Tiger platy and other species that have been hybridised in a sort of way.
I dont know the best way to put the 1st question so it probably does sound a bit daft!

 

[severum boy]

To me thay look fake, whats wrong with the original platies or a least wagtails or sunsets?
Good to see someone from Cumbria, i was born, bred and then moved out. Shame really lol

 

[Joemuz]

here is another one. I also heard that they are called Bleeding heart platy but i'v always known them as tiger platy

 

[severum boy]

No the mollys not dyed, but selective breeding, fortunatly the breeders (not in my knowledge) have not got round to exagerating the mollys fin.
From Cockermouth originally, I go up and visit relitives yearly or so.

 

[Joemuz]

Ulverston my home town and always lived there since i was born im 14 now.

Its not fish keeping is it when its cheated like this.

 

[severum boy]

No, a shame really. I cant get over how odd they look.
Good place to live eh? Havent been in a while though....

 

[Joemuz]

Not as much trouble here and quiet. But as soon as anything goes wrong the police make a right deal of it.
A baby accidently got lokked in a car outside my house at a funeral and the mum was in histerics and the fire brigade where there, an ambulance and two police vans (LOL)! It could only happen in Ulverston. Have you ever been?

 

[severum boy]

Blimy, thats quite a show lol. Havent been in about 12 years, i expect its changed loads now then?

 

[Joemuz]

I wouldnt know i cant remember being 2 LOL! Its a bit of a laf but hey its better than scratty barrow! (BARRA)
so more on this topic then, lets get back on track. more oppinions on the situation of fish hybridising un-naturaly.

 

[dwarfgourami]

I do keep some guppies and platies that have clearly been bred away from the wild form to look pretty, and they are quite attractive. But I find it more interesting with colours and patterns that have evolved in the wild and trying to understand what they are good for. And I'd rather try to breed unusual species than breed new colours of the common fish.

 

[Joemuz]

Fair point, i see where you are coming from.
Lets have some more oppinions.

 

[Spacecloud]

Everyones gonna hate me...but.....I do like the fancy colours and long fins of the inbred varities!! I love bright colours so my tropical tank is full of colourful fish. I'm also a sucker for fancy goldfish
I'm surrounded by fish daily though so I see plenty of different varities and end up taking home the weirdest looking ones most of the time!!

 

[severum boy]

If you like weird looking fish, there are LOADS of oddballs that look, well, odd. The stupidly elongated snakefish, cute but charcterful puffer fish, the naturally odd body and long, spindally fins of African butterfly fish the list goes on.