I dont like them at all but is it much different than most of our dogs. Many of them if not most were involved in selective breeding to porduce more pronounced desired traits.
The Creation Of Blood Parrot Cichlids (Pure Cruelty)
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Either way hybrids are going to be created its kind of inevitable.. Personally don't mind them but can see where people would not want them to be created
They're basically the equivalent of pugs.
I should also add, they tend to have the intelligence of amphs; so despite being "retarded", they're pretty smart for a fish
I should also add, they tend to have the intelligence of amphs; so despite being "retarded", they're pretty smart for a fish
Heck I love the fish and the personality but when I think of how the got to where they are today it makes me sick. Cruel to anything
Personally I think it is human cruetly and selfishness. But I wonder how is it okay for blood parrots to be that way but if you went to the fish store and seen a guppy, Jack Dempsey or any other fish shaped like that we would not dare allow the store to sell it to us because we would consider it deformed. However because humans intentionally breed blood parrots to look like that it is okay.
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.
my mother has several guppies with arched backs in her tank, loves them to death and won't let me cull them to my odoe...lol
This sorta reminds me of a law case I've heard about: a deaf couple, who apparently are so proud to be deaf, wants to have their children 'medically made deaf' so the children would be just like them
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.
