[Moe]

Hi all. I recieved a pic as an email with all diff colors of parrots. Purple, yellow, orange, blue etc. The pic is just awesome. Now my question is, knowing that these fish are dyed, why are the ones that I have always had only turned orange? I would love to have one of each but have no idea how or where to get them. Thanks in advance.

Moe

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[TheCichlidophile]

Moe,
I have seen these at a few of the lfs her in San Antonio, TX, but their availability is intermittent. Where are you located?

[Moe]

TheCichlidophile, on Feb 10 2005, 10:20 AM, said:

Moe,
I have seen these at a few of the lfs her in San Antonio, TX, but their availability is intermittent.  Where are you located?

I am up in Saskatchewan, Canada Land of the polar vortex

[richardsville]

maybe the parrots that go to the great white north are all orange before they show up there. Either someone up there dyes them or the cold scares some color in to them.

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I cannot believe these things are still on the market.

Not only do we genetically breed deformaties into this man-made freak of nature that would guarentee its exceedingly quick death in nature, but then we take it and dip it into a vat of freakin acid, then into dye, then into some sort of irritant to force the fish to produce another slime coat. Wow, wonder what genius thought that process up.

Everywhere in my area stopped carrying them as soon as people realized what they were. They also have an extremely high mortality rate after the process, are usually weaker than similar fish, and eventually lose the artificial color leaving you with a normal looking fish. But hey, maybe you can get some acid and some food coloring and redye it yourself.

The fish in your area only "turned" orange because they were dipped into orange dye. Some BPs have a natural orange color to them also but they are easy to tell apart from the very artificial looking dyed ones.