Re: Is it ethical?

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:52 pm

The thread, started by me, was started as a discussion thread. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. As can be seen by the replies, the majority of people are against seller fry so young.
Time-Out - What I found annoying, and probably the others, was the silly references being made about "cats, Insects and ducking under waves", which do not make a positive argument in favour of selling so young.
As you would have noticed the thread title was set out as a question. Sometimes its nice to have a sensible debate based on facts and experience.

by **Irish_Lass** on Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:55 pm

I agree Van. When people aren't winding others up its really nice to hear different opinions. Sometimes you hear something that you maybe didn't think about before.

by **aly_starh** on Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:07 pm

yeh, i saw that listing too...

Hmm, not too sure about it. Extremely risky for the fry and IMO not really nice. Fry need a nice high temp any whilst growing, so them being in a box getting posted wouldnt really help would it!?
Even the slightest amount of stress can kill bettas nevermind fry Shocked

What would you feed them? A culture?

Anyhoo, at the end of day, it is up to that Ebay seller what he/she does. ALthough i dont agree with it, along with many other people on this forum.

by **Haych** on Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:06 pm

IMO its cruelty.

You cant match water parameters exactly as some have higher ph (which is a pain in the backside to match) and then you acidity, hardness, softness, alkalinity, plants and ornaments mess with parameters etc etc

by **silverrabbit** on Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:05 pm

From the pics they look tiny, I can't see how he can say they're nearly an inch long