chickadee

I received my first issue of this newsletter by e-mail today and thought you may be interested in this ridiculous bunch of information.

http://www.aquamoss.net/Newsletter/0...-Dyed-Fish.htm

It is so difficult to think of some people being so cruel to these lovely fish.

Rose

Isabella

Rose, you should sticky this topic AND post it on as many fish websites as possible. If I were not a respectful person and did not value this website and many members on it, I'd be REALLY CURSING these cruel people right now (the people who dye fish). I really can't express with words how horrible it is to me - I literally had tears in my eyes when I was reading the newsletter. Please everyone, spread the news as far and wide as possible. We cannot let this continue. I don't want to sound vengeful, but I really HOPE the people who torture fish will get exactly what they deserve. Just because fish are smaller than cats or dogs (or other pets) and live in water, does NOT mean they're less important and that they can be tortured. They live and feel as all live creatures on Earth. God ... I can't. Enough. (You've no idea how angry I am right now.)

chickadee

Yes Isabella I do believe I can imagine, it made me sick to my stomach. Consider it "sticky-ed". I will see if I can get it sent to the other sites tomorrow.

Rose

Gwenz

I think this is horrible. I can't beleive people would do things like this. I doubt the people who do this would like it if someone did it to them, so why do it to a fish. Things like this make me realy angry.

I saw some fish in my LFS once, and they were labeled "parrot" fish, and looked similar to these fish but were orange, and they also had some other fish that looked as if they had been dyed. I don't go there any more.

Gwenz

Isabella

So far I've only seen painted barbs and some other kind of fish (I think painted glass fish) at my LFS (which is NOT good). But I've never seen anything like the fish in the Newsletter provided by Rose. If I saw fish like this at my LFS ... oh boy would the staff come flying out of the store ... or, if not, they'd have a huge argument with me anyway. I didn't yet have the courage to tell them (or rather yell at them) what I think about the painted fish they had and about the way they keep Bettas. But there will come a point where I will be no longer able to stand it. Though actually I saw a MIRACLE there once: they had ONE betta in a 20 gallon tank with some smaller fish. Wasn't that a "paradise" for the poor fish (compared to what conditions Bettas usually live in)?

Butterfly

I got the same e-mail. At least the person in the story isn't advocating the sale of dyed fish. He was as sick as we are. Unfortunately, as long as people buy dyed fish they will be dyed and sold.
Carol

lokky.funky

How cruel it is to paint fishes.. To bring an end to these sort of practices, we should propogate this message to all the fish forums/boards. We should make people aware of the kind of treatments, the fishes go through before being displayed in the fish stores.. I would never encourage these kind of things.. just for the sake of money..

Buzz

...and when the 'unwary buyer' purchases such fish and takes them home, only to have them die after a short time due to the cruelty meted out to them by these fish-dyers, the buyer just goes back to the store to get some more "hybrid, pretty-little-fish"...right ...disgusting

Butterfly

Heres a website with a list of all the dyed fish they know of. so if you come across thm you know not to buy them.
http://www.deathbydyeing.org/colormedead.htm
There are also gifs you can add to your signature if you want to
Carol

lokky.funky

that was a nice site.. with a lot of information on dyeing...

0morrokh

This makes me so mad I can't even tell you. Well I could, but you all probably wouldn't appreciate my language. Oh boy if I ever meet someone who would do something like that to a poor, innocent fish....

HOW COULD ANYONE BE CRUEL AND SELFISH ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!!!!!!

lokky.funky

To put an end, we should discourage people buying dyed fishes...

0morrokh

yes, that's the rather polite way of putting it...

Peter243243

Stop dying fish! Stop dying fish!
Stop dying fish! Stop dying fish!

End animal cruelty!!

emm

ewww.
who would do that to a fish??
And worse, who would buy them Thats just horrible. There are so many naturally amazingly beautiful fish out there, why would you mutate them? Aaarg.

Isabella

EXACTLY! I don't want to curse and hurl bad phrases on Fish Lore (because I respect this website and people on it too much to do this), but ... GOD you have no idea how angry this makes me!!!!!!!!!!!! RRRRRRRR!!!!

Tamara

i've found this website, one of the first ones that i've seen that actually are against fish painting/dying
http://www.firsttankguide.net/painted.php

Butterfly

Tamara here is another http://www.deathbydyeing.org/colormedead.htm
Carol

Tamara

that is really saddening. It's so dumb that people do that. it makes me mad.

Peter243243

Why do they dye fish?
Do the store keepers want to kill their fish !?
Or do they not know the danger of it?

Spread the word TELL:

online web members on other websites

pet stores with fish

relatives

petercaine

thanks for sharing that i was disgusted to see those fish it should be banned

atmmachine816

Sadly by me it seems the tatooed fish don't sell and they no longer seem to sell many dyed fish because they died on them before they could sell all of them or their color would fade. It's really sad, if I had the room I would have taken the dyed fish off there hands because nobody was going to buy them since their color was fading and they looked horrible, I would have asked them if i could have made there life as comfortable as possible as long as they don't buy anymore.

atmmachine816

How do you get a deathbydyeing.org thing in your signature?

Butterfly

I'm sorry they died but if you had bought them the owners might have ordered more because they were able to sell those. I know it's a vicious circle isn't it?
go tp www.deathbydyeing.org, choose what you want, right click on it and click on properties and copy the url. Then go to signature in profiles copy the url with the image tags in front and back.
Carol

atmmachine816

O what I meant to say was I'd try and give them a good life because they were just going to die in the store because there dyes had faded away and I would make sure the petstore knew I was buying them to save them from dyeing.

Thanks

atmmachine816

It's not working am I doing something wrong, it just puts the url as you can see. I right clicked on it, then clicked on properties, went to the URL copied it then pasted it into my sig and that's what came out.

Butterfly

try this click the reply button- click the image button then paste the url between the two image tags, copy that including the image tags and then paste it in your sig.
Carol

atmmachine816

Thanks, that's an obnoxious one that can catch peoples attention.

Stitsbabe

Holy Carp!!!!

That is horrific! I have never heard of anything like it before....How awful!

I love ALL animals....cruelty of any kind literally makes me seethe!

I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing and reading when I looked at the links on this thread.
I have never actually seen a painted fish and I hope to god I never do....I really cannot understand why anyone would want to buy a fish that looks so very wrong! They are not even attractive, just gaudy and awful!

I don't particularly like fish that are engineered to make them have odd shapes, extra tails etc and would never purchase one...but tattooed fish! That is just far too far....completely disgusting!

People should be buying and keeping fish for the naturally beautiful, living, feeling creatures that they are....Are there really people out there who do not realise that a fish like any of those pictured could not possibly be natural??

I'm actually speechless....It's totally sick!

Peter243243

For the thing in my signiture it doesn't say the url it only says
________________________________________________

Address: http://www.deathbydyeing.org/images/inje.GIF
(URL)

where is it?