Yep, I agree, very inhumane treatment. They never look right either. They always seem very sickly and swim funny. A friend of mine used to work at a very questionable LFS and told me that half of them die before their even sold. Usually only live for a month or so. I would check out some of the natural morphs of oscars, you can find some very cool stuff like the sunset oscars. I believe someone on here has a pair. Very beautiful fish.