like half the fish ur reblogging are glassfish that have been injected with fluorescent dyes its a fucked up and cruel practice lol

a lot of times it’s hard to say especially when you don’t know much about fish so like here are the main culprits

“painted” Glass fish

these little guys are known naturally for their translucency, but breeders have taken to injecting fluorescent dyes into them, which leads to major health complications, infections, and an early death

this is how they naturally look

“dyed” Parrot fish

this dyed look is achieved by dipping the fish into literal dye, stripping them of their slimecoat and burning the coloured chemicals into their bodies, parrot fish are a disaster of hybridization anyway, this is just icing on the cake of hell for them

this is what they look like naturally

“tattooed” mollies / parrotfish

this is administered either with a syringe full of dye or a literal laser that damages the fish’s scales like honestly they’re not even trying to hide this as a “naturally bred-in feature” they just straight up tattoo these fucking fish

so yeah, bottom line, if you see “”aesthetic”” images with fish similar to the ones above; they are the subjects of animal abuse, they’re not naturally like that, they’re scarred for profit and allowing their existence to go uncriticized is to be complacent in the continuing of these inhumane practices

- ur local fish gay