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View Poll Results: Should SereneScreen Aquarium have 'painted' fish?
Yes, these fish aren't real 3 5.45%
Yes, people will get the SSF Aquarium rather than buy these fish 3 5.45%
Yes (other reason explained below) 1 1.82%
No! 48 87.27%
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Old 06-25-2002, 02:57 PM   #1
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Cool * Dyed/Recolored Fish *

Several species of Freshwater Fish are recolored or dyed in cruel and inhumane ways before sale. There is widespread controversy over this abusive process. Many many fish are killed in the process and still others die because of weakened immune systems.

Do you feel that SereneScreen Freshwater Aquarium should or should not have the following species (and others) in re-colored form?
  • Painted Glass Fish
  • Colored Skirts (Blue, Red, Purple, etc.)
  • Painted Tiger and Tinfoil Barbs
  • Gold Bala Shark
  • Blood Parrot Cichlid

This really breaks down to, do you feel it would be condoning such practices? Would it encourage or discourage people from buying these fish?

More information on this practice can be found HERE.
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Old 06-26-2002, 04:56 AM   #2
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WOW, people do that? Crazy...
Sach's screensavers really save nature, it's really not nice to put fish into a small glascube to watch them...
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Old 06-26-2002, 05:16 AM   #3
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Houston, that's a negative...

Putting "unnatural" fish in the tank kinda goes against the idea of the SS being super-realistic if you ask me.

It isn't like there's no other fish to choose from, right?

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Old 06-26-2002, 07:06 AM   #4
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I think there're many many species of fishies for freshwater and that we have enough to make a huge screensaver, and still miss many of them, so why should be getting those unnatural fishies? If we see unnatural (and tortured) fishies like those, then all the reasons about not allowing users to create fancy fishies would be lost, as definitely, those painted fishies can be seen as real "skins" for fishies.
So, my vote is a NO, never. (also somebody could think "hey, what a nice painted fish in the aquarium! why not go to the nearest pet shop and buy some like that one?" I say no way!)
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Old 06-26-2002, 01:30 PM   #5
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I voted no because, as this screensaver has sparked me to start up a real saltwater aquarium, the freshwater may do the same for others. They may see these "cool" and different fish in the screensaver and decide to get themselves a tank, therefore encouraging the practice of mutilating fish for fashion and supporting those who profit from it.

Here was another "cruel to fish" thing that I was against:

http://www.aquababies.com/

Do. Not. Buy. These.

Here are some stories:

http://www.bettasrus.com/Products/AquaEmail.htm
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rrhudy1/aquababy.htm
http://www.tpka4a.com/911.html
http://www.rk2000.com/boycott/aquababies.html

The aquababies story is in the middle of this page somewhere:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/fwfishfaqs.htm
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Old 06-26-2002, 03:27 PM   #6
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Tiny very sad. Tiny becomes even tinier. Tiny decides to do whatever it takes to stop stores from carrying AquaBabies and/or variations if he ever finds it in Swedish stores.
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Old 06-26-2002, 09:57 PM   #7
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Without checking out the site I'm sure I know what those are... Seeing those at kiosks in malls and at Target makes me sick... Haven't seen any around here lately... Whenever I would walk by a place where they were being sold I would make sure to make a very audible negative comment about them...
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Old 06-27-2002, 06:43 PM   #8
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I voted no. to make a defensless animal suffer just so they look pleasing to the eye is just plain selfish and cruel. I didn't know they did that until I read the post here about it.

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Old 06-27-2002, 07:25 PM   #9
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Yes, but did you vote No because having them in the Freshwater Aquarium encourages people to buy real ones?
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Old 06-28-2002, 05:58 PM   #10
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I did vote no for the reason I posted above and also because putting them in the screensaver would, in my opinion, promote the sales of those fish.

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Old 06-29-2002, 02:39 PM   #11
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Regarding Aquababies -- I'm not trying to stir the pot here, but after I stupidly bought one in 1999 and subsequently saw that the African frogs and snails in it were getting worse for wear, I transferred all of them into a 10-gallon freshwater tank I already had set up.

The frogs are still alive in that tank (snails died of natural causes after a while).

Rather than throwing out the Aquababies tank, I bought a betta for it. He has been in there for about 2.5 years now (old age for a betta that was already an adult when I bought it), doing just fine. I feed him live blackworms and have plenty of live plants in the tank for him to slink through. I do a 40% water change every week (because there is no filter).

I would not advise putting any other kind of fish in an Aquababies -- certainly not a zebra danio or an African frog, which is what they sell with them. But my betta is perfectly lively and happy in it.
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Old 06-29-2002, 02:59 PM   #12
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the Betta can't live with the frogs?
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Old 06-29-2002, 09:26 PM   #13
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Yeah, the betta can live with frogs, but there's no way that the little Aquababies tank can support both a betta and a frog (let alone two frogs).

Or maybe you meant putting the betta in the 10 gallon tank with the frogs. Nope, that tank is completely geared toward tetras -- and the betta would terrorize and/or eat them. Plus, that defeats the purpose of having something in the Aquababies tank. My betta is perfectly happy in there. This betta's natural habitat is puddles. That's right, quite literally puddles in open plains where rain water collects. The water level in these puddles routinely goes down to practically nothing between rains, and the water quality is usually murky at best, extremely muddy at worst. And this particular betta had been living for weeks in a plastic Dixie cup when I bought him. Being in a nice, planted Aquababies tank with clear water every few days is actually a pretty luxurious environment for one of these guys.
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Old 07-01-2002, 11:07 AM   #14
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My theory on small spaces:

Just because something can survive within one doesn't mean you should keep it there.

I have a 5 gallon tank partitioned in half with a glass panel. I have my red betta (Alpha) on one side and my blue betta (Beta) on the other. They love anakras(sp) plants and bloodworms.

Just because you have an empty tiny tank doesn't mean you need to fill it with something.

Just my two cents.

(Alpha and Beta have been with me for 3 years and 2 months now. I can't tell you their age for I don't know how old they were when I rescued them from the teacups that pet stores keep their fish in. They now have a pet of their own. A big snail from one of the plants I got them. He wanders from one side of the tank to the other by climbing out of the water and over the center partition. I call him Gamma. Gamma likes shrimp pellets. Gamma also likes fish poop so I don't think it matters what I feed him.)
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Old 07-01-2002, 12:25 PM   #15
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I like your naming scheme, Light...

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Old 07-01-2002, 07:47 PM   #16
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I agree with all of your points, Lightfeather -- which is why I said I would not recommend having any other fish in that small a space other than a betta. My betta, on the other hand, is perfectly fine in there. You can usually tell, with a betta, whether it is happy or whether it is just in "survival mode." The ones in the dixie cups at the LFS are definitely in survival mode (but surviving quite easily, since this actually is not much different from their natural environment). But the fins sag, the betta stays on the bottom of the tank or just hangs at the surface, and there is no bubble-nest blowing.

My betta is always in full-finned form, flashing his great colors, and he gets excited when I walk into the room (suppertime!). He builds nests a lot, and he does all the other "betta" things a healthy, happy one should do.

I do hope that the dividing glass in your 5-gallon tank is opaque, because if they can see each other all day long, that's really stressful to them.
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Old 07-08-2002, 02:31 AM   #17
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as far as the "colored" fish go, i worked in a pet store & i couldn't beleive someone would go to those extremes to make a fish look like that in the first place. i always told the people that were interested in'em, that the color faded after awhile & that usually discouraged them from buying them, but there were always those few that did anyway. oh well, ya do what ya can, lol
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Old 07-11-2002, 05:40 AM   #18
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Well, i am much more learned on the plights of innocent fish versus evil humans >8(
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Old 07-26-2002, 04:41 AM   #19
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Angry Want to compare bettas...

Can you post your bettas in their envinronment, Lightfeather and BlueWinterWaves?

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Old 07-26-2002, 10:17 AM   #20
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Unfortunately, I don't have any way to get a digital picture.

What sort of comparison are you trying to make?
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