Would you buy Fruit Tetra ?

Fruit Tetra are available at some chain stores that sell fish, including Walmart. Sometimes they are sold under the name of Mixed Fruit Tetra.



Fruit Tetra is not a natural fish species. These pretty looking fish are in fact the work of dye and injection. Artificial colors are injected into ordinary Tetra fish to make them look colorful. Many fish die in the painful process. The surviving fish might not live long either because of the shock they went through during the injection.

I personally would not buy any artificially "dyed" fish, because it is animal cruelty in my opinion. I don't even get it why some people want to do that. There are hundreds if not thousands species of fish available out there for us to choose. Why do we need to inject fish with artificially colors?

Would you buy Fruit Tetra?