[RML] why destroy fish?

Piabinha at aol.com
Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:46:37 EDT

i agree, julie. while i don't like hybrids, i dont' advocate destroying all of the world's goldfish, canaries, balloon mollies, dogs and cats (some of the above are not technically hybrids, but they are not naturally occurring forms either). if there is a market for wagtail platies and longfinned albino neons, well, there is going to be a market for hybrid fish, like it or not...

i have a fish that i initially thought was a M. praecox but now that i got a nice group of them, i can see that it looks to be potentially a hybrid. the shape is not the high-bodied (relatively speaking) form of praecox/kamaka type but a little more slender with a bigger head, shaped sort of like maccullochii or other more slender types. although i am not happy with it, i'm not going to destroy the poor fellow.

tsuh yang

In a message dated Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:45:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "bowluvr" <bowluvr at email.msn.com> writes:

<< It is not the fault of the fish that some human put its parents together in
a breeding tank somewhere and against all odds managed to raise up this
hybrid animal. >>