| | Painting Live Tropical Fish - The First Tank Guide - Why Responsible Pet Stores Don't Have Painted Fish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Another botia, Botia lecontei, is also sold as a blue loach or blue botia, and is not dyed - though a painted blue botia is now available. |
 | | Red Painted Tiger Barbs and Green Painted Tiger Barbs are produced from gold, albino, and red color morphs of the Tiger Barb (Barbus tetrazona) that have been injected with red and green dyes (I do not know why there don't seem to be blue, purple, or fl versions of these fish). |
 | | The particularly odd thing about these (and this is frustrating as well) is that there are perfectly good red and green varieties of these fish available through selective breeding... |
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