This website is dedicated to the promotion of the humane treatment of fish and aquatic organisms.Initially, I set up this website to sell fish and aquarium systems that I have been designing. The more that I got into breeding and selling fish, the more disheartened that I became with the entire fish industry.
Unfortunately, the sale and trade of animals turns them into a comodity, and ignores the fact that they are sentient beings that can feel pain, fear, and loneliness. Each time I sold fish I would get an awful, sinking feeling; wondering what would become of them. I knew for a long time that there was something fundamentally wrong with treating fish like inventory but repressed those thoughts.
I would spend a lot of time on various forums, mostly in the illness and health sections, and read post after post of people abusing and killing their fish. Not on purpose (at least I hope not) but because the local retailers were all to happy to sell them whatever they would buy regardless of what would happen to the animals. . . . all because they have to make a living. Unfortunately, the money is made at the expense of the fish.
In the summer of 2005 I finally decided that I couldn't continue to breed and dedicated this site to promote the humane treatment of fish.
I'm hoping to find others that feel as I do about the fish industry and want to try to educate people about the proper care and treatment of fish. Done properly, I think fish can be kept happy and healthy, but it takes education and it takes the support of responsible retailers and breeders.
Please join me in the
forum, where I'll be discussing and exposing a lot of the things that go on behind the scenes in the fish industry and better more humane ways to go about it.
-- Ryan Chapin
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Dean Pomerleau and his son Kyle have trained a 3 year old calico fantail goldfish and some oscars to do all sorts of tricks, proving that fish are much smarter than most people initially thought.
They currently run a web site http://www.fish-school.com/ where you can purchase a manual on how to train your fish.
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Well, my last Astatotilapia latifasciata passed away today. Louie was one of my orginal trio. Like Lana, she also had lymphocitosis and finally succumbed today.
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. . . and what is now know as the world's smallest vertebrate. Found living in highly acidic peat marshes of South East Asia Maurice Kottelat and Tan Heok Hui described the Paedocyprinus progenetica, a member of the Perch family.
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Unfortunately, Lana, one of the four original Astatotilapia latifasciata succumbed to her lymphocytosis.
The good part about it was up until a day before she died she was swimming and eating normally. I noticed her with labored breathing about 10 hours before I found her in the early morning of November 30th.
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 Here's a photo of here with her first spawn One of the fry is in the bottom right of the photo and another is near the bottom of her dorsal fin towards her tail out of focus. The rest seem to be in her mouth :)
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A good article on the mis-named Haplichromis (or often Zebra) obliquidens.
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Rome has banned spherical goldfish bowls and ordered dog owners to take their pets on walks. Fairgrounds are also banned from giving away fish and other animals as prizes.
This new bylaw goes a long way to establish the rights of animals other than cats and dogs. Two thumbs up to the Italians!
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Walking through the fish room about an hour ago, I notice Snuffy (m) and Ginger (f) spawning.
Every other L. fuelleborni male was trying to get in on the action . . .
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At the end of June of 2005 a fisherman in Thailand caught what is believed to be the largest freshwater fish known to man.
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This is the answer to a post on http://cichlid-forum.com. You'll probably be seeing a bunch of these in the near future as I'll be going back through them and turning them into articles.
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