Why are fish dyed?

Given that your illustration is of those dreadful mutations which they call ‘Parrot Fish’ and which even without the dye look and are awful the producers have to find ways to make them appear more appealing – hence the dyed finish…personally I think they still are abominations which should be made extinct, dyed or otherwise!

The trouble is…inexperienced Fishkeepers like them, it matters not that the dye fades after a while, or that because of the mutations they are means they cannot even eat very well!

I have been in shops both here and in England and have heard people (non-Fishkeepers mainly) enthusing over them. People mainly are not aware of the processes involved in dyeing fish…neither do they realise how few actually survive the ordeal either!

And, if you think about it, Fish Shops will stock what people will buy! I’ve, like many others, heard the ‘nonsense’ (substitute your own words there) quoted…”The Wholesalers sent us the dyed fish – we didn’t order them…they were sent in as replacements for fish which we ordered which were out of stock” – the list of excuses is endless!!!

But, and this is the really sad thing, even many species of fish which might ‘appear’ colourless – or even semi-transparent are now receiving the same fate, we were only talking about this last weekend, the Channa Glass Fish, a really nice but virtually transparent fish now come in all colours of the rainbow – they don’t need it, they are perfect little fish without!

Someone posted a picture last year, or possibly the year before, of Albino Corydoras having been dyed, again, every hue you could imagine. There is a campaign running both here, in Britain (run by the Practical Fishkeeping comic) but also in almost all civilised countries where fish are kept but still they come!

If no-one would buy them the shops, wholesalers and producers would have to cease stocking/providing/producing them!

Good post, let’s hope it will re-start the Anti-Dyed Fish Campaign again – it needs a kick-start. And let’s include those awful mutated fish like the ‘Parrots’, Ballon Mollies and others.

John

Dazaray wrote:

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