blue oscars......WTF?

[Mourinho18]

yeah, i see them at the lfs. They don't even bother swimming around. They all just lie on top of each other on the bottom struggling to breath.

 

[ROSS]

here are some red one's f@#kin weird, why anyone would do this to a fish

 

[evilxyardxgnome]

Its not the tattooing, its the dye where they dip them in acid and then soak them in dye. They are lucky if the survived the process.

they are injected with the dye not diped.

 

[gomezladdams]

They have an article posted at my lfs stating that there is a strain of blueberry oscars bred from wild stock that had some blue in them.Next time Im over there Ill see if I can find out where the article is from.

 

[rallysman]

they are injected with the dye not diped.

There are a few different ways that they do it, Ive read about a few methods and i think they usually dip the ones that are fully changed in colors, and the injected ones usually have a line...i could be wrong but i think thats what i remember reading on this.

 

[rweedon]

there put in acid??? how painful is that!!!! i cant believe they let crap like that go on, although they let all kinds of bs go on with animals and fish alike.

i ave seen albino oscars turn blue naturally though. my freind has one where the orange pattern has a blue outline, yet it was almost pure white when he bought it.

A lot of people say "acid bath" without any concern to how their words are taken and then others repeat it without completely understanding what an acid bath is! When they dye fish this acid bath is actually acidic water and when I say acidic I am referring to the PH of the water. From what I understand it is usually a tank of water that has a PH of 3-4 and then put into a non-toxic dye lot it is not nearly as painful as one would think when you hear acid bath and then have visions of seeing fish fizzing away in Hydrochloric acid or something like that...

 

[Fry]

yeah, i see them at the lfs. They don't even bother swimming around. They all just lie on top of each other on the bottom struggling to breath.

the ones i've seen were pretty lively, could there be new color strains and others are dyed?

 

[Two Na]

Whats this tatooing all about? How is it done?

 

[Nate_N_Nicole]

Sorry to say but those red ones look pretty sweet!!!!

 

[woolfie]

you guys over there should go about your lfs complaining about fish getting dyed over here one magazine went about trying to stop fish dying everyone wrote to them stating the lfs that supplied dyed fish and they published it in there magazine i think it has made a small difference one thing i cant stand is dyed fish another of my hates is when you go to a shop and the shop keeper gives you all the talk about fish and you know for yourself he is talking crap and when they are selling to the novice fish keeper rather than point them in the best direction they tell them bull sell the predators with small tetra etc
makes my blood boil


cheers woolfie