Unhealthy
practices of Fish Breeding
I may have briefly mentioned this sometime in the past.
I cannot trace the piece I wrote.
In any case there seems to be new developments.
There is a guy who breeds albino zebras.
He has now introduced a pink strain.
I have an obsession on the topic of pigmentation, especially in
regard to Guppy fish.
I wished I could see a Guppy black like a black molly.
A guy in Thibirigasya, actually accomplished it.
He deserves a Nobel Prize.
I do not know how he accomplished it but to see a Guppy with band of
black is common now.
These Guppies are robust, healthy and of reasonable size.
But all the variants of Zebras are tiny.
They do not grow to adult size in spite of proper feeding.
They do not mix in the shoal with normally coloured zebras.
In other words thy are unhealthy.
Toady, I received a batch of albino tetras FREE from a dealer, I knew
for two decades.
The idea was for me to look after them (confirmed disabled)
sympathetically until they die.
One of them died on transit due to shock.
Rest went into panic state the moment I introduced them to my main
tank.
I sat there and watched their agony for half an hour.
Only two recovered in half an hour.
Most of them were partially blind or an eye was totally missing.
One was totally blind and took the longest to recover.
After one hour all of them could balance and swim in a comical
manner.
They had two problems.
One was blindness.
The other was balancing.
I believe these strains are poisoned in their breeding.
They must be using very toxic material.
There is unsupervised breeding programs in this country.
These chemical are hazardous to humans and other animals and are
slowly percolating into our ground water.
Who is allowing these materials to be imported?
That is my big question.
