FishBrain Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 I was in the Raddison building today on Memorial and 28St SE and they have a tank in the lobby. Nice tank and I remember there bring large silver dollars in it, but today there were parrot fish in it. THere were white ones and pink one and some almost red ones. I noticed some of them were blotched with red/pink. THEN I saw a blue one. Well it was more terquoise than anything. THere were about 30-40 little parrots in it. Anyway......Do parrots come in blue?? or was he dyed? I would have one if they were blue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGr8Blade Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 http://www.vda-online.de/img/Qualzucht3.jpg Like this? I believe it was Big Al's that had a tank of purple and pink ones, could be wrong....Jellybean cichlids I thought they were named. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishBrain Posted January 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Is that true colouring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vallisneria Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 No those ones are dyed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Chicklets Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 No one should ever buy dyed fish or painted or tatooed. They dip them in a mild acid solution to clean the slime off before dying them, This causes a high mortality rate, when ever I see someone ooing and aahing over them I try to disuade them from purchasing said fish, and explain why. As far as I'm concerned the LFS should not bring them either. There should be a total ban on imports of these poor animals. If there is no market for them they will stop the cruelty as they won't be able to sell them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishBrain Posted January 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 No one should ever buy dyed fish or painted or tatooed. They dip them in a mild acid solution to clean the slime off before dying them, This causes a high mortality rate, when ever I see someone ooing and aahing over them I try to disuade them from purchasing said fish, and explain why. As far as I'm concerned the LFS should not bring them either. There should be a total ban on imports of these poor animals. If there is no market for them they will stop the cruelty as they won't be able to sell them. OK dont get that topic started again!! -roll- I totally agree with you, I was just wondering if they really came in blue. I have turquoise rainbows and these were about that same colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midgetwaiter Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 OK dont get that topic started again!! -roll- I totally agree with you, I was just wondering if they really came in blue. I have turquoise rainbows and these were about that same colour. We had them at Riverfront a while ago. We didn't order them, we ordered something that a customer wanted by common name (not jellybean) and these were what we got. The dye was fading out pretty fast though and they looked really bad after a while, yellow with a hint of whatever colour they were dyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toirtis Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 We had them at Riverfront a while ago. We didn't order them, we ordered something that a customer wanted by common name (not jellybean) and these were what we got. Wayne ordered 'rainbow cichlids'...we expected Herotilapia multispinosa, we got.... I screamed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vapor Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 I screamed As you should have. :grr: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toirtis Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 I screamed As you should have. :grr: We did...a lot...mostly at the supplier....took us forever to rid ourselves of those monstrosities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishBrain Posted January 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 OK I just wanted to know if they were real. They are not so I still dont care much for parrots. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevchewy Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Wow... that is all i can say! nev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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