Painted Tetra

[rhi]

Wow! I just found out about the stories behind painted tetra (I've had them for a year and a half). It's crazy, why would ppl do such a thing?

 

[DrRob]

Sadly because they sell, and they're good enough at it to pass it off as natural if you don't know already.

Now you've got them, give them a good life and enjoy the personalities, and encourage people you know to not buy or stock them.

 

[MrsM]

Pics? Ive heard about painted fish but never seen....

 

[freshwaterfishlover]

Today I saw Glassfish with strips of neon. Not natural

 

[balraj_bangar]

Im pretty sure my pink skirt tetra's are dyed! They been with me a while and wierd thing is they natural ones have passed away.

 

[zain611]

Pics would be good and whats the shocking thing about them

 

[JenJ]

Pics would be good and whats the shocking thing about them

They are injected with a dye to make them look 'pretty'...

 

[zain611]

so What im thinking is that do they net them and dip them in a coloured liquid?

 

[JenJ]

Sometimes they are dipped into a dye, but with some, such as the glass fish mentioned above, with neon strips, they are actually *injected* with this dye. Hence it is regarded as totally unethical.

It was actually seeing painted glassfish in a petshop over 20 years ago that made me want tropical fish (ambition finally achieved last summer!), but at the time I had no idea of the mistreatment of them.

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_fish

 

[bikerfish]

Hi I have seen some white skirt tetras and was told they have the colour taken out of them , this is not right , just another way to make more money

 

[zain611]

Is there a fish called convicts?

 

[JenJ]

Is there a fish called convicts?

Yes, it's a central american cichlid. I don't believe it has any connection to painted fish though?

 

[rhi]

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Sorry haven't been on for a while.but this is what it looks like. Through the year that I has them. They had lost a lot of the paint that was inserted into them.

 

[zain611]

^^^ Yeah on wiki it did say they will lose their colour also about the convicts i saw them in that LFS which is hard to go to on Thursday and on the label they were called painted convicts

 

[freshwaterfishlover]

Since Valentines day is coming up watch out for tattooed heart Mollies.