Morality Question

[PoPoV]

I finally got some of my hybreeding down, as far as im getting my own colors and health out of them. I did this by taking the heathy fish and breeding them with the most colorfull and so on and so forth. Any how, my girlfreind hit me with the right or wrong question. I said that the reason fish get nice colors in the wild is becouse this happens naturaly Am i right or wrong to select certain fish and breed them? Anyways, this question is from my girlfreind. Input?

 

[Rugby]

depends on what you mean by slecting certain fish.
if you mean same species, than, well, thats how we got guppies and goldfish, through selective breeding.
if you mean different species, it depends on whether the fish is living without pain, meaning, it isnt highly deformed (like goldfish! ) but, i dont know why i posted this, as i didnt give you a diffinitive answer.
lol
Rugby and his random posts
so my answer is, i believe its alright, as the hobby that we appreciate now is dependant on selective breeding, again, guppies, goldfish, etc.

yep
Rugby

 

[theotheragentm]

That's how breeders get the fish with fancy colors. It's no different than setting your friends up on a blind date, although the fish will almost always mate. Blind dates hardly end up that way. They normally end much more tragic and funny.

 

[PoPoV]

That's how breeders get the fish with fancy colors. It's no different than setting your friends up on a blind date, although the fish will almost always mate. Blind dates hardly end up that way. They normally end much more tragic and funny.

Thats a very good analigy. And no i dont mix species, only guppies. My old lady seems to want me to just leave them all in a big tank and let them do their thing. I originally bought my guppies so i could raise my own feeder fish. I eventually started to enjoy their colores and now i selectivly breed them. My girlfreind sees it as playing nature? so I was just seeing what everybody else thinks about it.

 

[Tolak]

I have no problem with it, I do it with angels all the time. Selective breeding is how you end up with various breeds of all sorts of animals, not just fish.

 

[Silvani]

It happens with all animals. Dogs, they take pure breed dogs and selectively breed them with other pure breeds to get the ideal look. They do it with horses, they take the fastest race horses and bread them with other fast horses to try and get new winners.

It’s even with plants. Apples and tomatoes were never as big as the ones in the grocery store until they were “breed†that way.

I don’t think you can really worry about the moral dilemma of it since its been happening for 100’s or 1000’s of years with most anything you can name. You’re just following the normal history of man.

Cats, fish, cows…. Ect.

 

[fuman_chica]

The whole point of being a breeder is to make the breed better. So by being selective (choosing the healther fish and the better colors) you are actually helping to make better guppies. Although if you are keeping them all for yourself, no one is the wiser.

 

[richchappy]

there starting designer babys in humans so they cant really class this as wrong

 

[Annastasia]

Selective breeding is fine, in my opinion. Until you get to the point where it isn't helping the fish at all, such as with Guppies, when their tails and fins weigh them down, and they cannot properly move. That's going a bit too far for looks, in my opinion.

 

[k.o.d]

Selective breeding is fine, but if you inbreed between closely related fish, you can also bring out weaknesses in the fish that will be carried along the strain.
Breeding in the wild with the bigger population will stop this as it is survival of the fittest out there, you cannot really stop inbreeding in a small tank unless you make a lot of effort.
Colour and tail size is great, but if you breed weak fish, it is not so good.