pink and blue tetras, is that fake color?
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yes it is fake. they are dyed. it makes the fish stressed and miserable. the babies will be white. most people avoid buying dyed fish because of the torture element but a lot of people are unaware and think it is their natural color. other dyed fish are parrotfish, mollies (with hearts, words...), and painted glass fish. some are dipped and others are injected. just keep your eyes open and try to avoid funding this sensless cruelty. after all, we are in the hobby because we love fish and want them to live long healthy lives.
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A friend of mine gave 4 of them over 3 years ago and they are no longer blue. They slowly went back to their original white color. The mortality rate for fish that have been colored is rediculously high, and it is only for the sake of selling more fish.
i never knew there was such a thing untill before, i read an article about glowing fish,
they are injected with "what ever" to make them glow green, and all i could think was .... Then it went on to give instructions on how to do this to tetras and other fish so the light went off in my head.
who thinks of these things!? yuk!
I dont recall if some other fish i seen were hatchets or tetras, but they had misc colored strips on their top and bottom, that looked neon.. i guess those were colored also?
they are injected with "what ever" to make them glow green, and all i could think was .... Then it went on to give instructions on how to do this to tetras and other fish so the light went off in my head.
who thinks of these things!? yuk!
I dont recall if some other fish i seen were hatchets or tetras, but they had misc colored strips on their top and bottom, that looked neon.. i guess those were colored also?
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Everything they said. However glowfish/glofish/glow zebras are not dyed. (Off topic of these/this question, but... sort of related, right?)
there are fish called glo-fish that do glow in the dark under a black light they are zebra danios that have a jellyfish gene that was added to their dna. They are not artificially died but born that way. I have 6 2red 2orange and 2green awesome fish under a blacklight!
The practice of dyeing fish is horrific. I have three glass fish that I watched horrified as the dye began to come out of them. They got these big like boils on them where the color was working its way out. They are still alive but now whenever i go to a pet store I always complain about the store selling these tortured fish.