Update: Aquarium Solution has explained that the fish were not ordered by them but instead was send by supplier which I was told happens quite often. Aquarium Solutions has removed all dyed fish from the shop.
I thought I will never see this in Ireland but unfortunately I was wrong. Today I was bypassing Ashbourne and decided to visit Aquarium Solutions pet shop. It’s a small shop located in SuperValu shopping center. I’ve been there before and it used to be a pretty good shop but recently it started deteriorating.
I vas not expecting much today as most of the tanks were almost empty but one of the tanks had an unpleasant surprise for me. There we 2 painted fish in it. It looked to me that these were glass fish(Parambassis ranga) The condition of both of them were terrible even non fish keeper could see that they were really sick and would not last long.
I though that the general view among fish keepers is that it is cruel to paint fish and that serious fish keepers would not import these fish, but obviously it is not the case for Aquarium Solutions.
I’m really sad that I had to see them in this country and I will be avoiding this shop in the future.