painted glass fish

[kat and james]

no no no.. tight means cruel.. i've never come across anyone using the word tight to mean right or good, unless maybe you are talking about ppl being tight as in good friends!!!
i think he meant that is is really mean doing this !!!
all these colloquialisms!! getting everyone comfuzzled!!

 

[CFC]

Must be a regional thing then, all the little chavs and hoodies up here in London use the word "tight" when decribing something "cool". Ah the wonders of having a 16 year old apprentis at work

 

[FiestaWRS]

sorry about the misunderstanding i have now edited the post.will now be using proper english words from now on for easier understanding haha

 

[Jules H-T]

I confirm that in the UK (Wales & SE) tight means nasty! Or actually it means not good at splashing the cash. Certainly nothing good.

 

[CFC]

I am in the UK too, i think we've already established that there are obviously regional differences in what the word tight is used for. The young lad i've had working for me for the last month and friends of his i met (lucky me lol) all used the word tight in the same way as we would have used "bad" in the eighties and early nineties, as in that if something is "bad" or "tight" its good.

 

[Mickslack]

Tight can also mean unwilling to spend money! can we leave language discussions as we could go on all day as there are a few others i dont care to mention

just kidding it is just getting a bit tiresum

 

[fish_keeper2]

i think its best overall just to stay away from slang and such as it will just make problems.

not meaning to get off track but i was at walmart today and saw that a lot of the fish had ich and dying.......the usuall. and the guy putting the new fish shipment into the tanks just dumps like a half bottle of melafix into each tank.....thats way tooo much plus none of the fish had anything that i noticed that is treatable with melafix. all those poor fish...........

 

[Jules H-T]

The young lad i've had working for me for the last month

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That's it mate. It's age CFC.

Young whipper snappers don't even realise they've nicked it from Snoop & Dre et al on the west coast around 90, when it meant close/friendly

 

[phoenixfire]

what do u think pet stores do with fish they cant sell and nobody wants...even though they are in the best of shape...lol and no one knows how we can get a pin up for newbies about these glass fish?

(ps. in mass tight means cool) i dont like any slang though i think its a poor excuse for bad vocab. just my thought tough!

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

what do u think pet stores do with fish they cant sell and nobody wants...even though they are in the best of shape...lol and no one knows how we can get a pin up for newbies about these glass fish?

Not sure what your getting at here. If its a question I can tell you that the lfs at which I am employed, no fish is ever "disposed of" in any way if it is still alive. If you know of different practices at other lfs' please let us know.

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

I read the PFK link provided by Funkybodal and the site states that they are not sure wether parrot cichlids are being injected. All I can tell you is that an lfs near my house has "jelly bean parrots" which are parrot cichlids with colors like green, blue, pink, red, yellow. I highly doubt that color has been acheived naturally

 

[phoenixfire]

lol it was more of a question sorry...my fault...but yeah i wasnt sure...i didnt think they did that...but you never know...

 

[Boxcar Muzzdogg]

Ok, i thought you might have been asking a rhetorical question. Your right, you never know. I wouldn't doubt that there are places out there that would kill a fish because they couldnt sell it.

 

[CFC]

Parrots arent injected, they are dipped. This involves first being dipped into an acid solution, then into the dye and then into a irritant which stimulates the slime coat to regenerate sealing in the dye. Compared to that injecting sounds quite pleasent.

 

[Synirr]

Ok, i thought you might have been asking a rhetorical question. Your right, you never know. I wouldn't doubt that there are places out there that would kill a fish because they couldnt sell it.

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My local Walmart does it, or at least used to. I've heard from others on this forum, including someone who said they work at a Walmart, that it's fairly common practice especially with the bettas. At my local Walmart every single one of the remaining female bettas from a previous shipment would magically disappear overnight when they got in a new large shipment of bettas... until I started playing fish cop, anyway .
Once there were three female bettas sitting by the sink and away from the others, meaning they were no longer considered sellable even though they were perfectly healthy... it's just that they had been there for three weeks and their cups were filthy. They were awaiting disposal. I cleaned their cups myself and put them back with the others, needless to say *lol*

About parrot fish... I think they usually use the acid bath method to dye those, right? Dip them in a chemical to strip their slime coat, dip them in dye, then dip them in a chemical to help them regenerate their slime coat around the dye. That's what it looks like, anyhow. I could be wrong, though. My poor little Marie still has one small, faded blue speckle that looks like an injection site (I was not supporting dyeing by buying her, just for the record, since my LFS doesn't normally carry dyed fish and wouldn't have ordered them if they had known they were dyed. Apparently that wasn't mentioned on the stock list.)
What really sickens me are dyed oscars and giant gouramis

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