This should scare us all...

[billsreef]

Has upsetting as the idea of dyed corals and tattooed fish are, please don't go cheating the profanity censors. I'd hate to have to go handing out infractions to people I'm agreeing with

BTW the practice is well over a decade old for corals, and several decades for things like painted glassfish. It's one of those things that just seems to get more common with time

 

[jloschen]

it looks fake

 

[agreeive?fish]

i have always said if you want bright colored sticks in your tank get a can of paint and some sticks from your back yard, and now they want to die(misspelling intentional) softies is just plain wrong and those "glow fish" and tatoed freshwater fish just look so nasty that it aint going near my tanks

 

[mistacheese]

Within the next 5 years, we'll be asking each other, "Wow! Does your coral have implants?"

No it's natural... I swear...

 

[Steven Pro]

BTW the practice is well over a decade old for corals, and several decades for things like painted glassfish. It's one of those things that just seems to get more common with time

I remember when it was almost impossible to buy a condy that wasn't dyed yellow.

Here are a couple of more articles on the subject:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-09/ac/feature/index.php

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-09/eb/index.php