this is just wrong

[krichardson]

And, of course, "best" is in the eye of the beholder...

It's just hypocritical to say that "fancy" fish that don't happen to appeal to you are wrong or bad (or only developed for money)...but those that you happen to like are OK.

I might happen to think that the natural browns of discus or the silvers of angelfish are incomparably beautiful. That doesn't mean that the development of the array of fancy discus or angelfish is somehow wrong or bad...

Matt

Matt

I wouldn't call it hypocritical,it's just someones opinion and the greed part is spot on.If the many frontosa purists happen to like the new spotted types then more would be produced and brought into the hobby.....to be sold.....I agree with you,a little,on your point about the natural brown and silvers of some fish verses the more colorful varieties that have been developed.I have always favored the natural color of fish over any enhanced types.I could never understand the reaction from some over the different "white" color morphs of some fish that bring in big bucks but I am not as against color morphs as much as I am with changing a fish's overall appearance.There are the bubble eyes,and short bodies and so forth that I can't stand and now,frontosa with no stripes.

 

[dogofwar]

With all of the different varients of wild-type frontosa available to hobbyists, how would it not be equally greedy to pull new varients of wild fish from the lake and sell them?

Matt

I wouldn't call it hypocritical,it's just someones opinion and the greed part is spot on.If the many frontosa purists happen to like the new spotted types then more would be produced and brought into the hobby.....to be sold.....I agree with you,a little,on your point about the natural brown and silvers of some fish verses the more colorful varieties that have been developed.I have always favored the natural color of fish over any enhanced types.I could never understand the reaction from some over the different "white" color morphs of some fish that bring in big bucks but I am not as against color morphs as much as I am with changing a fish's overall appearance.There are the bubble eyes,and short bodies and so forth that I can't stand and now,frontosa with no stripes.

 

[krichardson]

I guess it wouldn't,business is business lol.I still can't help but lump the spotteds in with the colored glass fish though.

 

[gunfragger]

i guess a black man and a white woman shouldnt make kids either? i say if they come out an live a comfortable life all the power to that particular fish

 

[aquaman95]

Thank u thats what I said but nooo

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[krichardson]

i guess a black man and a white woman shouldnt make kids either? i say if they come out an live a comfortable life all the power to that particular fish

Guess whatever you want,that's your choice but as ridiculous as it is to compare the actions of humans to those of fish the last time I checked it was against the law to purchase the offspring of humans.I wasn't aware that the spotted frontosa were hybrids anyhow so I don't see why others harp on the black/white thing.The hybrid debate is for another thread altogether.

 

[dogofwar]

Whether the spotted frontosa are hybrids or not could depend on whether the scientific opinion of the moment is that the various fish we call "frontosa" are technically one or multiple species. Not that we know the exact "frontosas" that went into creating this fish...

This is, of course, no different than whether fancy discus, fancy bettas, and the various "stuartgranti"-type fancy peacocks are technically hybrids (or line bred): scientists lump species and they become line bred; scientists split species and...voila...they're hybrids.

Matt

PS I agree that the human / fish comparison is pointless...