Boos Story...

OK guys here goes. Boo started life like any other mass produced albino tiger oscar, in a slimy pond/vat/tub with his bros & sisters, trying to get some food & hanging out. Then one day some idiot scooped him & some brothers & sisters out of the slimy pond/vat/tub. The idiot/idiots then decided it would be cool to take a syrienge loaded with blue dye & shoot em all full, then throw them into a tidy bowl blue holding cell/vat/tub & feed em some blue dye food. Thats right boys & girls Boo got the short end & was made a bluberry oscar. I am gonna say right now engineered fish are so wrong. I dont condone,recomend, or suggest anyone support this practice. I dont like it & like I said it is wrong. It was wrong to buy him, but sometimes doing the right thing isnt doing the right thing. I first saw him at the lfs. He was nose down, half starved & gettin his butt kicked by a bunch of albino kribensis (nasty lil fish) in the corner of the tank. I looked at him & looked at me with a big blue orange eye & it was on. I figured least I could do was give him someplace peaceful to die. I started hagling with the manager & offered her 5 for him. ' OH no hes a 25 dollar fish", I laughed. I told her hes half dead now. Nothing. I told him to hang on I would be back. He did & 2 days of badgering the store manager later I got him for 5 bucks & " AND NO DEAD FISH GUARENTEE". Whatever, right? Like I said it is wrong but Boo had no choice. The store made nothing/next to nothing on him & I have never seen another around. I fully expected him to die, he was a mess. That was a year & half ago & hes doing ok now. I take his stuff cause I figure he deserves a lil slack. I wouldnt normally waste a 75g on 3 fish. He doesnt like people & I cant blame him, can you...

daang that sucks. atleast he still alive! what do you keep him with?

is he still dyed blue, or did it fade into more like a baby blue?
I went to my lfs and saw this catastrophe

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They were selling these for $40 a pop! I was like HOLY %$&! Luckily, I knew the aquarium specialist because I went to high school with him and he says it was a special order for a lady who didn't pick em up. I tried to talk him down to $10 each but he said he would get fired because the dye is $20. I checked back next week and only 1 survived. The blue one right in the middle. There was a big SOLD sign on the tank and he said he sold it for $30 to a little girl........(figures)

But yeah, adding dye to fish is retarded, and it ruins their liver. Although I have to admit it looks cool, I am all against it.

oops sorry wrong code

I have a jag & big pleco with him. He gets along fine with them. They have immune problems also Ive been told. He doesnt have much blue left at all. He wasnt that good lookin of a fish. It was ugly on him. Like I said I shouldnt have got him but I did. Been paying for it ever since...

Well I can understand his attitude now. Good rescue job on him