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ctt33  Enthusiast Posts: 154 Kudos: 148 Votes: 0 Registered: 14-May-2004   | I live in Oregon/USA and I was in one of the fish stores the other day and saw a sad site. The called it a pink tattoed giant gourami. It looked like a white gourami about 6" long and it had been tattoed in a hot pink scale pattern from the gills back to the tale. The sign said can grow up to 24". Has anyone seen this before(sorry I don't have photo capability) I thought it was pretty sad. I have heard of dyeing and injection fish but this topped them all. |
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victimizati0n  Banned Posts: 1217 Kudos: 1105 Votes: 31 Registered: 29-Apr-2004 | i have seen pink kissing gouramis labeled as giant gouramis, but they wernt dyed |
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bettachris   Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004 | http://fish2u.com/medredspalos.html this is the fish, a red scaled white gouramie Last edited by bettachris at 21-Apr-2005 17:42 |
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| ctt33 Enthusiast Posts: 154 Kudos: 148 Votes: 0 Registered: 14-May-2004 | that is the one. But my fish store said it could get real big. |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:52 | |
Dakafall Banned Posts: 218 Kudos: 224 Votes: 7 Registered: 14-Nov-2004 | they do, they get around 27", the sci name isOsphronemus goramy(a pic of how big they get i think it's bad enough that stores sell giant gouramis, because of their size and ppl might buy them young unknowledged, and it's horrible that they would do such a cruel thing to a fish pic 2 pic 3 Daka<<<<  Last edited by Dakafall at 21-Apr-2005 18:06 |
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| ctt33 Enthusiast Posts: 154 Kudos: 148 Votes: 0 Registered: 14-May-2004 | Yeah you just no some kid is going to put in a 10 gallon starter kit. It is to bad that there is a market for the dyed and injected fish. |
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| Stormy Big Fish Posts: 357 Kudos: 606 Votes: 81 Registered: 13-Mar-2004  | "$62.38, 3 for $171.55, 6 for $327.50" HOLY COW! I COMPLETELY disagree with any form of artificial coloring on fish, but come on, at those prices, go buy YOURSELF a tattoo instead of one for your fish! Poor things! ]:| |
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