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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 Sign-up for the HappyCichlids.com E-Newsletter to stay in touch and keep up to date. |
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