Seeing this really upset me....
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They've tattooed gouramis as well. I think they only do it to the larger gourami species, such as the kissing gourami and young giant gouramis. This practice is unneccesary and cruel. If we want to move forward as a society, we need to treat our animals much much better. (and our fellow people as well.) I'm glad this practice is banned in several European countries. Hopefully there can be a way to ban imports of these abominations. (sorry; I hate hybrid fish.)
I don't see what the problem is? With over a dozen tanks running, I own ZERO painted/ tattooed fish. I have two Hybrid Kirin Parrotts bought before I was aware of them actually being hybrids!
With that said, although it is not my "thing" and don't want any tattooed fish, I am serious as a heart attack about not taking this from those feloow fishkeepers that are so inclined.
What I would like to know is of the hundred or so members whineing about some business man weilding a hypo. on some fish that they sell:
Do any of your children have tattoos? It is totally off the chart if you are opposed to potential pets having tats while your flesh and blood reads like a comic book.
What is it like 90% of the kids today sporting tats?
I have no tats, no pets with tats, but am willing to fight for my fellow fishkeeper to do themselves head to toe and their pets nose to tail if it floats their boat.
I just wish that around 90% of the people pissing a fit here would man/woman up enough to fess up and jump off this highbrow moral holyer then thoust bandwagon. If the tattoo thing is so bad with tropical fish then what does it say about us as a society that these heinous dangerous "tats" are sported amoungst the extreme vast majority of Human children?
With that said, although it is not my "thing" and don't want any tattooed fish, I am serious as a heart attack about not taking this from those feloow fishkeepers that are so inclined.
What I would like to know is of the hundred or so members whineing about some business man weilding a hypo. on some fish that they sell:
Do any of your children have tattoos? It is totally off the chart if you are opposed to potential pets having tats while your flesh and blood reads like a comic book.
What is it like 90% of the kids today sporting tats?
I have no tats, no pets with tats, but am willing to fight for my fellow fishkeeper to do themselves head to toe and their pets nose to tail if it floats their boat.
I just wish that around 90% of the people pissing a fit here would man/woman up enough to fess up and jump off this highbrow moral holyer then thoust bandwagon. If the tattoo thing is so bad with tropical fish then what does it say about us as a society that these heinous dangerous "tats" are sported amoungst the extreme vast majority of Human children?
There was a clip I saw awhile back that showed them going through the procedures of tattooing the fish. They sedate the fish and all.. I'm sure some of you have seen it too but I can't find it.
Actually I found it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPTE_rFYac&feature=related
Actually I found it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPTE_rFYac&feature=related
bob965;3765929; said:
I'm talking about school age kids (minors). Can you tell me that the middle & high schools in your area are not overflowing with underage minors with multiple tatoos? You are not allowed to make "adult" decisions as a human in the USA until 18!
It has to be the "Adult" parents allowing the "decision" that their adolecent children get the ink! With the **** that attends schools today you should take this as an absolute top level compliment!!!
If body ink is a direct measure of "bad", then we as fishkeepers are along the lines of 100 times more moral then the average parent in the USA! In highschools I think a strip search will easily expose 20% minors with tats. I doubt you will ever find a LFS with over 20% of their fish sporting tats.
Fishkeepers > Parents?
screaminleeman;3765970; said:I'm talking about school age kids (minors). Can you tell me that the middle & high schools in your area are not overflowing with underage minors with multiple tatoos? You are not allowed to make "adult" decisions as a human in the USA until 18!
It has to be the "Adult" parents allowing the "decision" that their adolecent children get the ink! With the **** that attends schools today you should take this as an absolute top level compliment!!!
If body ink is a direct measure of "bad", then we as fishkeepers are along the lines of 100 times more moral then the average parent in the USA! In highschools I think a strip search will easily expose 20% minors with tats. I doubt you will ever find a LFS with over 20% of their fish sporting tats.
Fishkeepers > Parents?
Wow. Maybe when you sober up, you'll realize how little sense you're making.
bob965;3766057; said:
Sorry, I am at work and in need of a beer and a tube. Maybe when I'm tuned in, it will make less sense to hold adolecent children above tropical fish in the "treat with care and respect" realm.
Until then, I have no tatoos, my fish(s) have no tatoos and even my dog Jingles has no tatoos,
.I smoked two cigerettes when I was 15 (decades ago). It is not me, I can not forsee EVER doing that stinky foul stuff. With that said, I still get bug eyed like Arnold in the movie Total Recall, when the government passes new laws and institutes taxes surounding the use of tobaccoo, ven though it does not directly impact ME.
Maybe you should catch a buzz so that you can (like I do) see that the worlds does not revolve around YOU!
If you don't like inked up thug fish, then don't keep them! Just stay out of other peoples back side if that is their "thing"!
I guess that I am an animal abuser when i made Jingles wear an elf outfit Christmas morning. Sheesh!
MAN!! I SEEN SUM IDIOT MOM ASKIN FOR A RAIDERS ONE FOR HER KIDS THE OTHER DAY!!!
i wus thinkin to myself "wut if i put a tat on you and put you on the market"
i wus thinkin to myself "wut if i put a tat on you and put you on the market"
