Flirting with mother nature.

We've done it with just about every dog in domestication. Some have issues mind you dude to pure breeding, but there is some good to come out of it (for dog lovers anyways). Those neon tetras are poor souls. Will never buy one.

 

you forgot to mention that all this only happens in captivity. sure in the aquarium hobby and at the lfs youll see all sorts of weird breeding modifications. but out in nature all the fish are the same as hey ever were. the only way this would really end up being a problem is if the particular fish species were to become endangered and at some point all we had left was the ones in captivity. but i still believe then that there are enough pure bred clowns and others that the problem could be easily reversed.

 

Agreed on both! Although I love black ice clowns even more

 

Yeap! I seen the results to some of those also. overgrown shaggy mutts, undersized mutts, mutts with no hair, mutts with spots of hair here and there. Some mutts so grotesque that people think their cute

Then when they have a pair of these animals, they breed them and call them pure breeds.

Guess I am old fashioned, I would take a boring, plane jane, old fashioned Siberian Husky anytime.

 

I think just, because they have a stable healthy NORMAL population of animals in the wild gives humans no right to take them and try to grow horns on their heads.

The problem is there is no one or no law that can tell them NO! This is wrong. The danios and some glass fish have really taken a beaten with all the dyes being injected to their bodies. Poor guys.

 

Man has been screwing with things since the beginning of time. Dogs, cats, cattle, plants, ecosystems, nothing has changed

 

Look at whats been done to dogs. Dogs bred to big for their own bodies where they have hip and knee problems, cherry eye and other genetic problems with bulldogs, blindness in dalmatians? And the list goes on. Lovely results of over breeding and specific breeding for a desired trait. Same as the designer clowns, it leads to problems when you mess with nature.

 

i agree with you that it may be wrong, but there is absolutely no way there could ever be a law made to ban it. i believe only in extreme cases such as alot of dogs, and neon glo-fish that it is bad. with many designer clowns, only the color of the clown is affected. this does not hinder the clown itself in any way. especially in captivity.

however whenever there is selected breeding, there is always a large possibility of in-breeding. and thats where we run into a problem.

 

Because people like them, same with all other designers.
Also, some designer clowns are found in nature so they aren't a good example of this sometimes.

 

Dis is da truth