Fish from walmart question
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Pure albino's lack pigment, and have pink eyes.
Nice looking little OB, but I'm assuming that it's not the fish that the OP was originally enquiring about.
Nice looking little OB, but I'm assuming that it's not the fish that the OP was originally enquiring about.
Too much typing involved, so I cut & paste this from an oscar forum. The same applies to all fish, including African cichlids.
This might also help.......
Fish Coloration Terms & Definitions
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?38534-Fish-Coloration-Terms-amp-Definitions
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This might also help.......
Fish Coloration Terms & Definitions
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?38534-Fish-Coloration-Terms-amp-Definitions
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I got the albino my fish killed him waiting on more to come in
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My local Walmart's wholesaler is located in the state. They are a hormone free facility. I wouldn't call hormonal manipulation common practice, growth or reproductive; it does happen more commonly with some higher end lines. Antibiotics and hybrid crosses would be more common practice within this genus. IMO
It is indeed common practice, and has been for many years.
FYI - many of the wholesalers based in the US, including some of the largest wholesalers, such as Segrest farms, import millions of fish each year from Asia. I have spoken to a number of these importers/distributors over the years as I owned my own company and worked as a wholesale distributor in the tropical fish industry. The use of hormones is not only common practice, it's openly admitted, and discussed by many of these American based importers. Like many consumer goods, in many cases it has actually become cheaper to import African cichlids from Asia, than to grow them out in ponds in Florida. And with African cichlids color sells, so the sooner a fish shows color the better it is for business.
So, while the US based distributor that supplies a store may safely call themselves a "hormone free" facility, as they themselves do not utilize hormones, that does not necessarily equate to them not supplying fish that have been treated with hormones prior to arriving at their facility.
FYI - many of the wholesalers based in the US, including some of the largest wholesalers, such as Segrest farms, import millions of fish each year from Asia. I have spoken to a number of these importers/distributors over the years as I owned my own company and worked as a wholesale distributor in the tropical fish industry. The use of hormones is not only common practice, it's openly admitted, and discussed by many of these American based importers. Like many consumer goods, in many cases it has actually become cheaper to import African cichlids from Asia, than to grow them out in ponds in Florida. And with African cichlids color sells, so the sooner a fish shows color the better it is for business.
So, while the US based distributor that supplies a store may safely call themselves a "hormone free" facility, as they themselves do not utilize hormones, that does not necessarily equate to them not supplying fish that have been treated with hormones prior to arriving at their facility.
