Check out this gourami

[GouramiGal]

Hey- check out the picture of the "spotted giant baby gourami" on Ebay! I've seen the pics of the big one that accompanies this before. Wow- that's neat, I've never seen one like that.

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Hope the link works!

[Fishalicious]

Give me a paintgun and I'll give you one for free.... jokes aside... these are known as 'lucky fish' in Japan - The fish themselves are not so lucky though - they have been crudely injected with rows of pink spots

[gm72]

Injected/dyed fish. Disgusting.

[Red]

poor fish :(

[sandy_n]

Great, another dyed fish. :smad:

[donvichu]

hope no one encourages it by bidding in there :c11:

[mp3rp]

hope no one encourages it by bidding in there :c11:

I don't think anybody would pay 100 bucks (Starting bid) for that fish.

[Fishalicious]

I have reported the seller to Ebay - every little bit helps against this kind of cruelty

[Owner_Of_A_Tuff_Bichir]

Great, another dyed fish. :smad:
Injected/dyed fish. Disgusting.

I am asking this question out of ignorance, but how can you tell the fish is dyed\tattooed? Not familiar on how any fish is dyed.

I would think that animal activists would be all over this cruel practice, then again, within fishing circles it's always debated whether or not a fish can feel pain in the sense that mammals could.

Not would I dye anything, but just curious how it is done.

John

[Anomaly]

Injected/dyed fish. Disgusting.

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought too . . . That poor Gourami has been shot up with a ton of pink dye. I would love to know why people think it necessary to do something like that. :ssad:

[Anomaly]

I would think that animal activists would be all over this cruel practice, then again, within fishing circles it's always debated whether or not a fish can feel pain in the sense that mammals could.


Yeah, you would think . . . However, I just don't think people think of fish as being worth anything, unfortunately. When my wife told her coworkers that our dwarf puffer was sick, people just suggested flushing the fish. Horrible . . .

[gm72]

I am asking this question out of ignorance, but how can you tell the fish is dyed\tattooed? Not familiar on how any fish is dyed.

I would think that animal activists would be all over this cruel practice, then again, within fishing circles it's always debated whether or not a fish can feel pain in the sense that mammals could.

Not would I dye anything, but just curious how it is done.

John

The fish, when young, is injected with a very small needle with permanent dye. How can you tell? Because nature doesn't make fish like that. Research will reveal what is dyed and what is not.

Animal activists are all over the cruel practice, yet idiots keep supporting it by buying crap like this. The practice wouldn't continue if there weren't a demand.

[pes142]

Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to breed fish like that? Those colors are wild, and amazing looking. Unfortunately, the ends can't justify the means, and i just can't see a reason to buy dyed fish. Especially when you look at honey or sunset gouramis. Different species, but colors, that in my mind, blow away any dye job.

[cocoa_pleco]

yep, dyed, which sucks for such a gorgeous fish. I dont know if im right or not, but that fish was for sale on ebay over a year ago i think, i remember someone posting the link

when i went to germany, i found a store that had 6 of those guys in a tank with some guppies and tetras, theyre awesome

[Lady Hobbs]

I saw that a while ago and I reported it also!!!!!!! Not only is the fish ugly, he's ruined in appearance and health.

The guy wrote back to me and said "we do not sell dyed fish, we rescued him." Well, if you place an ad trying to distribute this fish, what is it called if not selling!

[kaoticice]

Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to breed fish like that? Those colors are wild, and amazing looking. Unfortunately, the ends can't justify the means, and i just can't see a reason to buy dyed fish. Especially when you look at honey or sunset gouramis. Different species, but colors, that in my mind, blow away any dye job.

yeh it's possible to cross-breed or possibly hybridizing a phenotype color strain to alter their colors. However, doing something like that would require huge pressure on time and findings, that's why these dyed fish are pretty common.
I also believe cross-breeding or hybridizing is the best way of doing it, i mean... how ugly do those fish look with obvious artificial looking colors. I'm a proud owner of my gold plakat betta fish, coz not only that it took decades to produce pure gold but not ONE dyed-fish will ever match it.
Here's a pic xD
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(sorry for showing off :c12: )
Ed

[dgoulston]

wow thats an amazing coloured betta, looks like something you would by from an jewlers or somthing. looks too gold to be real! amazing!

[pes142]

If something you have is a beautiful looking as that betta, and you don't show if off, then something is wrong with you. That is the kind of fish that i was talking about when i said that natural, albeit bred for, colorings can blow away any dye job. Great fish. Do you have any more pictures of that Betta? i would love to see them.

[dgoulston]

that gold betta in its self is soo beautiful and colurful that it doesnt look natural, it looks like u droped it in the gold paint pot by accident!

its an amazing thing when breading can come out like that

[GouramiGal]

What a beautiful betta!

Wow, I'm so naive. It didn't occur to me that someone had injected the gourami. Why would somebody do that? (rhetorical question)

What a bummer.

[Pranger]

What a beautiful betta!

Wow, I'm so naive. It didn't occur to me that someone had injected the gourami. Why would somebody do that? (rhetorical question)

What a bummer.


Hi there,

Thank's to your thread we are all better informed:thumb:

[themollusk]

Yeah, you would think . . . However, I just don't think people think of fish as being worth anything, unfortunately. When my wife told her coworkers that our dwarf puffer was sick, people just suggested flushing the fish. Horrible . . .

This is where the term "ornamental" fish gets my goat.
Oooh it irritates me to NO END! To think that they're simply "something pretty" rather than living beings upsets me beyond most anything else! PETA and other animal rights/activism groups do try to raise awareness about this sort of thing, but not many people listen. Their bigger issue is the "Fish are Friends, NOT Food" thing, rather than the "ornamental" cruel inbreeding and injections with dyes and what have you.

I find it all absolutely appalling.
What will we do next? Start having ornamental cats and dogs?
Nobody would THINK to do something like that, so why do it with a fish?!

Ugh. Like I said, it REALLY gets my goat.
/end rant/