question about coloured fish

flash · Post by **flash** » 11 Nov 2006, 13:22

Hi all
a long time ago i promised myself that i would never buy a fish from a shop that sold dyed fish but today i went to a garden center in linconshire and saw the best selection of cats that i have ever seen in one shop.over 60 Lnos and the best corys you could imagine but he also sold parrot c****ds in a range of range of unnatural colours .he told me the dye was fed to them in their food and they came to no harm .he also said the dye faded in a few weeks is this true? unfortunatly my passion as an L no collector got the better of me and i bought a gorgous 273 and now i feel very guilty any thoughts?
cheers flash

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 11 Nov 2006, 14:55

Imo you don't have to feel guilty. Even the best shops around here sell pathetic - however not dyed - fishes like parrots, long finned varieties of all kinds, albinos and such just because there is a demand for them. And, like one LFS shopkeeper told me, "this is how I make a living. I don't like it, but if I don't stock them people will buy somewhere else and I can't afford to loose customers".
Dyed fishes in the Netherlands have become more and more extinct and can no longer be found in serious LFS-ses.
I don't know if the dye disappears in a few weeks; if so I wonder what he'll tell his customers beforehand? And from what I've heard with regard to dyed fish: they usually disappear themselves within a few weeks....
Anyway, you didn't buy those parrots, did you? So you didn't create a demand for these sorry fish. Start enjoying your L273.