The Creation Of Blood Parrot Cichlids (Pure Cruelty)

[dogofwar]

There are plenty of advanced hobbyists who breed and develop "fancy" fish for fun and not just money.

And there are plenty of greedy people who breed and sell wild-type fish just for money.

Matt

it boils down to money and a market of mostly new hobbyists who see something unique and buy it. I absolutely hate fancy goldfish, BPs, and in all honesty any animal that is bred to have desired deformities. I don't own any hybrid/selectively linebred fish like those and never will but I also know it will always be part of any hobby when keeping live animals-greed will always prevail over the purity in a hobby.

 

[krichardson]

I can also say that I'll never own blood parrots or fancy goldfish and in general I'm not even a fan of manmade coloration and prefer natural, although I have nothing against abnormally colored animals if it was done humanely and it does not in any way make that animal unhealthy or handicapped. I'm not a huge fan of manmade hybrids either, but I do like the common naturally spawned ones like Lepomis sps. hybrids.

Good post.It's not about whether hybrids or fancy fish are good or bad as some of them are quite nice looking and not grotesque as if they came out of someone's sick nightmare...as is the case with Blood Red Parrotts.The first time I laid eyes on a BP I immediately wondered what could have been going through the mind of whoever was responisble for the fish's existence.

 

[xraycer]

The first time I laid eyes on a BP I immediately wondered what could have been going through the mind of whoever was responisble for the fish's existence.

Same here. It still just baffles me on the appeal of these fish to so many people based upon how super popular they are.

 

[MN_Rebel]

Apples and oranges,well except for the so called fancy goldfish....some of them anyhow.The swordtails and others are not man made monstrosities with deformed mouths that they can hardly eat with.

Lyretailed swords cannot breed naturally. And many swords with black pigment often have cancer.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

This is where it's nice to keep wild caught natives like we do. You know they were naturally bred by nature so they almost certainly have a stable and healthy gene pool, have survived natural selection, and have grown up in a clean and cruelty free environment.

I can also say that I'll never own blood parrots or fancy goldfish and in general I'm not even a fan of manmade coloration and prefer natural, although I have nothing against abnormally colored animals if it was done humanely and it does not in any way make that animal unhealthy or handicapped. I'm not a huge fan of manmade hybrids either, but I do like the common naturally spawned ones like Lepomis sps. hybrids.

my natives that are wild caught are the most disease-resistant fish I've ever kept. I've had both captive bred and wild caught natives together in my 310, and the captives always come down with something, be it fungus or ich, and the wild caught will never catch any of it.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

There are plenty of advanced hobbyists who breed and develop "fancy" fish for fun and not just money.

And there are plenty of greedy people who breed and sell wild-type fish just for money.

Matt

regardless of reason, it shouldn't be done.

hobbyists that do it for fun are worse in my eyes than a for-profit racket churning out these monsters.

 

[MN_Rebel]

Funny that no one give a hoot about Frankenstein manmade hybrid mega catfishes or shortbodied fishes. Heck even some coloration strains could be unhealthy and weak (ex Electric Blue JD and albino blood red swordtails).

 

[MN_Rebel]

my natives that are wild caught are the most disease-resistant fish I've ever kept. I've had both captive bred and wild caught natives together in my 310, and the captives always come down with something, be it fungus or ich, and the wild caught will never catch any of it.

I see no difference between wild caught and captive bred individuals when it comes to the diseases. Kept both, lost both to same diseases.

 

[krichardson]

Lyretailed swords cannot breed naturally. And many swords with black pigment often have cancer.

Okay....so the lyretails are man made variants,that's still lightyears away from the ugliness of BP's and they can move around and eat just as well as any other fish.

 

[MN_Rebel]

regardless of reason, it shouldn't be done.

hobbyists that do it for fun are worse in my eyes than a for-profit racket churning out these monsters.

Like capturing endemic natives or over harvesting some fish species for greed reasons.