i think this is the most cruel thing to do to an animal.
     - gabriel ahnee · waipahu , hawaii · Feb 4, 2007 @ 10:08am

God appoints us stewards of the animals; Steve Lane tattoos fish. Exposing children to animal cruelty so that they can enjoy owning pets makes good sense too. Right?
     - E Enderle · MI, USA · Feb 6, 2007 @ 10:02pm

This is the most stupid discusting thing thing to do. It shuld be forbidden to do this to any animal. I can´t describe how much I hate this.
     - Joel Bjornsson · S.Sandby SWE · Feb 13, 2007 @ 12:18am

Fish with tattoes are very attractive and bring small profits from the stores. It is quite harmless, and is done with a low intensity laser, they pick the size and strength needed. its NOT inhumane!
     - Ashley (tatooed mollies owner) · Detroit, MI · Mar 5, 2007 @ 12:24pm

To lure in children into the hobby like that is sickening and profitwise disgusting aswell. Everybody into the hobby seriously condemns this action, as in tattoo or dyeing of tropical fish. And a heart on a fish doesnt make it cute, its something new and bizzare. It has a very unnatural appeal to it that would categorize as ugly. The ones pro of this action, accept you are participating in this cruelty conscious of it or not. If they feel pain or not from the laser. It is a cruel action on the animals. And to satisfy ignorant people or the disney mentalities with this atrocities, its just mindblowing people like that excist and never question what they do in life. It is sad people support this and raise their children as if its ok to keep pets that have been tattooed. That goes to parents and the fishfarmers and stores who support this. Sorry to see few people supporting this matter.
     - Rudberth · Palm Beach, Aruba · Mar 16, 2007 @ 6:49am

it is cruel to put anything like that on a fish. it is horrible! i am only 12 and i would hate to buy a fish that isnt naturally colored. i saw a whole bunch at walmart and it made me cry seing the poor fish colored like that. I HATE IT!
     - ashley · register,usa · May 5, 2007 @ 1:56pm

"only in America" ? Are you kidding? They're coming from SINGAPORE you less than intelligent person!
     - SINGAPORE · los angeles, ca · May 7, 2007 @ 10:52am

i sell this kind of fish. great seller, it does not hurt the fish, if you go fishing with a hook that might just hurt. you put them in a tank, next thing you pepole are going to say is get rid of the fish tanks wake up this is not the 60 pepole, you wear designer jeans, why not fish, i'll keep selling them as long as i can get them. great seller to kids and adults. cruel is neutering your dogs, spaying your cats. I raise mice to feed snakes that must be cruel too, but thay have to eat to, birds wear rings on ther legs, dogs&cats have a tatoo, so you dont lose them so tatooing a fish, come on think of it the next time you eat a fleafish from a fast food store. get a life pepole. and enjoy what you got fish with a tatoo is pretty. should be one in every fish tank.
     - rac2001 · algonac, michigan · Jun 17, 2007 @ 6:51pm

That must be so terrifying for the fish...
     - Shelby · YoFace, VA · Jul 12, 2007 @ 12:51pm

I think it is pure wring. Maybe it isnt so bad for us, but fish get stressed out too easily to have such a thing done to them. You can see in the second picture of the pokadot mollie, that she isnt very healthy( hmmmm, i wonder why). Also, i know someone who knows a fish tattooist and you he said that they take them out of water, put them in a damp towel, and they tattoo them. Rhody from Alabama, if you sell fish you must know that they have a protective slime coating, which is there immune system. Taking that away makes them more susceptible to diseases. I doubt too many humans would be want a tattoo if it took away your immune system. Plus, it is detrimental to your other fish, if your tatoo's fish is sick, it can spread to other fish in the tank. If you honestly care about them, then you would understand that it is a completely wrong practice. Ohhh, this is coming from a 14 yr old.
     - Kribensis12 · USA · Aug 31, 2007 @ 9:40pm

I just got a tattooed mollie today and I love it. It is a beautiful fish and fits right in with the rest of my fish. I think people need to get a life. If they have nothing better to do than argue about a fish then they are just a boring as the plants and rocks that decorate my tank. So in other words stop wasting your time. This is pointless.
     - Danielle · Flagstaff, USA · Nov 1, 2007 @ 11:19pm

Here's the deal: You are going to have this giant political debate over tattooing a FISH. Fine, you are all entitled to your opinions. Just because I don't like it does not mean someone else won't. There are more important things to worry about....how about NEGLECTED CHILDREN? FAMILIES IN NEED? SEPARATION (or not) OF CHURCH AND STATE? OUR SOLDIERS AT WAR? HMMMM....fish tattoos seem hardly the thing to gripe about with the world and our country's current situations. We have all just wasted our time talking about this when we could have MADE AN ACTUAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. Seriously, think about it. It's A FAD, it will stop eventually. How many of you still have slap bracelets? Yes, these are LIVING CREATURES, but we are talking about a common goldfish, not an endangered species, and if you are going to gripe about this, why not go picket at a sardine factory? C'mon people.
     - Sam · Oxford,PA, USA · Dec 12, 2007 @ 3:59pm

First of all, I agree with Ashley, tattooing fish and spaying/neutering dogs and cats have nothing to do with each other. All pets need to be altered so one day maybe we won't be killing millions of great dogs and cats for lack of homes! The problem I have with the fish tattoo practice is it's just a money making scheme. Don't try to tell me we need to do this type of thing to interest people in having fish for a hobby. We should teach our children to love animals for what they are and treat them with respect and kindness whether they be a dog, cat, horse or fish, etc... Kids should be taught a pet's worth without a gimmick attached.
     - Barb · Somerset, USA · Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:57pm

Maybe the fish like some bling!
     - Ali · Tampa FL · Mar 8, 2008 @ 5:04am

A store here just got some of these in and I'll probably buy a couple. I don't care if it's just shameless profiteering or not, because that's what almost everything is these days. The damage is already done to these fish if there is any, and the Singapore/HK company already got their money, so should you let them all die off without a chance to live outside of a plastic bag/pet store? Besides, if you really cared about the fish, you wouldn't have them holed up in an aquarium in the first place, it's not natural to live your life inside a tank in someones living room either.
     - A. · TN · Mar 26, 2008 @ 12:43am

Ive got 4 tattoo's of my own and personally thats just wrong, when someone decides they want to get a tattoo, thats up to them, why do it to a fish? like come, they don't even look that good....
     - AsIf · Here And There, · May 26, 2008 @ 12:18pm

I know they are only fish, but look at their sad faces :-( Poor things. It doesn't even look good!
     - Melissa · Sydney, Australia · Jun 5, 2008 @ 8:00am

Awful people are so ugly on the inside I cant stand it. No one needs to grow up. If you honestly think this is ok, You are just repulsive, why do people think hurting an animal can bring any sense of enjoyment. I'm not for this at all. People that say this is cool. dont grow up Grow a damn hearT!
     - Taylor · tx · Jul 13, 2008 @ 2:47pm

you people need to get a life. its a fish, most die in a week or so. so who gives a procreate if theres some color on it. its cute, and harmless.
     - amanda · boston, Mass · Jul 23, 2008 @ 9:07pm

Amanda... you being quite an incompetent fish keeper and not being able to keep fish for more than a week doesn't mean that fish don't survive longer. I've been keeping fish for a long time and some species laste several years, some even a decade. The one that needs to get a life is you but first, probably, you'll need to ger a brain!
     - Ricardo · Portugal · Jul 28, 2008 @ 3:22am

Fish with tattoos are very attractive and bring small profits from the stores. It is quite harmless, and is done with a low intensity laser, they pick the size and strength needed. its NOT inhumane! - Ashley (tatooed mollies owner) · Detroit, MI · Mar 5, 2007 @ 12:24pm - Ashley...if you do that you are cruel and selfish, because you hurt fish to sell them.They ares beautiful as they are, painted...horrible.It's sad. ''you people need to get a life. its a fish, most die in a week or so. so who gives a procreate if theres some color on it. its cute, and harmless.'' - Amanda grow up,and don't be such a retard...They die in a week, because they end in a tank handled by people like you
     - ZogLi · Lisboa, Portugal · Aug 5, 2008 @ 7:48am

at first i thought this was mean but now that i read how its done... i think its great.. i love to watch fish ad i think ts is more excitting to look at. - kkvrlv · logansport in · Aug 8, 2008 @ 9:25am it's exciting to see a fish being tortured by some jerk? These comments are the reason that the world is so full of disgrace and abuse...It's sad.Sometimes i wonder...brains,thought's,compassion,intelligence... are common among humans ?
     - ZogLi · Lisboa, Portugal · Aug 17, 2008 @ 4:08pm

I think it is really cool. AWESOME
     - Sarah · Florida · Oct 3, 2008 @ 10:14pm

I bought one yesterday he has pink spots with a blue number in the middle he is completely heathly and looks great!!!
     - Zoe · Australia · Oct 27, 2008 @ 12:16am

Sam · Oxford,PA, USA · Dec 12, 2007 @ 3:59pm "There are more important things to worry about...NEGLECTED CHILDREN? FAMILIES IN NEED? SEPARATION (or not) OF CHURCH AND STATE? OUR SOLDIERS AT WAR?...fish tattoos seem hardly the thing to gripe about with the world and our country's current situations." ?!?!?! This is one of the stupidest, most played out anti-animal rights arguments out there. I, as I'm sure many other people here who think tattooing fish is a lame idea, DO care about LOTS of other issues out there in the world, incl. those mentioned in Sam's rant; spending time sticking up for animals (of any species) does NOT take away from my ability to care about humans, war,etc! So maybe the fish aren't necessarily being tortured, & i love my own tattoos, but if I was another species & a person took me out of my element, pinned me down, & ran a needle up & down my skin, without me having a clue what was going on or why I would be totally terrified. And sorry people, but a tattoo can definitely HURT & it should be a personal CHOICE whether to have it done or not & when i got mine, I knew I was safe! The worst thing about this idea, is that it perpetuates the attitude that other species are simply here for our amusement, our decoration, for us to look @. What a selfish novelty.
     - Diedra · Winnipeg, MB, Canada · Dec 24, 2008 @ 5:32pm

first of all, its fish....They don't cry, they don't make faces, and they don't care if they are tattooed. There really is no discussion for this, if you like it, buy it, if you don't like it, don't buy it. Simple as that. I don't like the fact that they make condems from sheeps skin, sheep do make faces and cry and get tattooed all the time and people still use sheep skin condems for their pleasures, no one says anything!!!!!! I think I am going to protest!!!!!
     - Cassandra/fish owner · Dickinson, ND · Jan 6, 2009 @ 8:38pm

LOOK ITS JUST A FISH IM SURE IF THE GUY THAT SAYS THE FISH ARE NOT HURT AND ITS DONE IN A SEC KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT BUY THEM GOSH ITS NOT LIKE EVERY FISH IN THE WORLD IS TATTOO'd ok your husban or dad maby even your mom goes fishing witch means that they put a hook threw the fishes mouth and then even sometimes cook them im not a big meat lover myself and i love animals i have 26 rescued dogs and 3 50 gallon tanks filled with fish of all kinds only 1 is salt water and i have took in so many cats hampsters snakes anything in fact my husband has just took in a white snake im not real big with the snake thing so i really dont know what it is called even he would like to find a way to put a tattoo on his snake and he wouldnt hurt an animal if his life depeded on it its not that big of a deal its not hurting them and most people think it is cool i would love to have one of these fish if i only knew were to buy one and as for the neon colored fish at wall mart that is inside the fish yes that is crule but the tattoo is in the skin not damaging the internal body so this is not a crulty having dogs in pins is animal crulity and having big birds in a cage and never taking them out to play with it is animal crulity shooting a dear bear or an animal is crule and i could have a much longer list that would ot involve tattooing fish so if there is a problem you have in your mind im sure these people dont care bout it so if you dont like it dont buy it!!
     - I HAVE FISH TOO · USA · Feb 22, 2009 @ 2:30pm

I know, I will go out and buy a couple of trouts, get them tattoed, and let them live in a 100 gallon fish tank. They will be happy in a large humane tank, and looking good at the same time. Then, in a couple of weeks eat them for dinner. See? everybody is happy now, including my tummy.
     - garabato · San Francisco, CA · Mar 11, 2009 @ 7:48am

This blog is so funny! Let's outlaw human enhancements too.Those people with lip, hip, boob,face,buttocks,cosmetic surgery of any type are doing these things to better "sell" themselves.Not everyone can afford that, so we should outlaw it too. And we use latex to save the sheep :} LUCY!from Belfast,Ireland- Does the nightly news just make up all that bad stuff that is going on there so that I will keep tuning in?I mean if life IS like that where you live,I would alot rather hear your perspective on THAT than on these fish. Inhumane?I understand there to be a whole lot of that going on over there. Of course that is just the newsmans perspective. Can't be that bad if people there have computers and a real strong standing on stopping cruelty to fish!Did you know that they BREED fish just for killing????Yep.Got me some in the freezer now.I am glad too! Because I hate that horrible smell they leave on your hands when you catch them yourself. I got a tat once and for the record, the process was alot more annoying than painful,and it was done with a needle. Sure is a cold day in Missouri.My fish are happy fish- happy to be Inside the aquarium instead out outside in my decorative pond. Don't get mad.I really do fish them in that pond, even when the temperature is 14 below zero.But hey!I am not the only one! And I can sure tell who stared out the window having deep thoughts on cruelty to fish,instead of working on their spelling, if you want to be tak
     - Ronada · Hannibal,USA · Mar 11, 2009 @ 12:32pm

I have a fish with a heart on it, And he has been alive and well now for several months!!! I dont see why everyone is getting all pissed about it..And everyone that has seen him LOVES HIM!!!
     - Brandi C · Cambridge,usa · Apr 6, 2009 @ 6:07pm

i bought one today and my fish seems just fine it seems kinda cool
     - vmgjuk · usa · May 25, 2009 @ 6:12pm

Neither of the fish in those photos look particularly healthy.
     - Elisa · Illinois, USA · Jul 5, 2009 @ 9:42pm

i think that is plain mean to do to a fish. fish are natural, living creatures too. what if you were the fish, and you were suddenly surrounded by people doing a tattoo on it. you would terrified and it could cause, i think, shock to the fish and if a fish gets too shocked, it could kill it. what if you didn't have a choice to get a tattoo? and you had to get it anyway. that is animal cruelty. well, not animal cruelty, fish cruelty. i think it is mean. would you want it if you were the fish and the fish was you. think.
     - alyssa · medford usa · Jul 22, 2009 @ 4:48pm

I just bought one of these "tattoo'ed fish" and I think they are so cool and intriguing to look at. I bought them for just 5.99 at a normal pet store. When they were called 'tattoo molly' I had no idea they were actually tattoo'ed, until I read this. I bought one with orange and blue polka dots (go gators!) and one with purple and blue stripes on both sides. I think they are pretty amazing!
     - Sierra · Lakeland, Florda · Jul 27, 2009 @ 12:38pm

You all are so worried about these poor, poor fish but what about the fact that women are having their own children ripped apart and sucked out of their bodies?! You act like this is the cruelest thing you've ever seen, there's a lot worse things going on in the world!! Save your energy and fight for something that actually matters!
     - Mandi · Kansas USA · Sep 3, 2009 @ 1:02pm

You people that likes this things is very sick, and need help! No weare in sweden they had alowed this kind of fish. The fish have never asked for the tatto, you are! Only in America people buy this kind of things, never in Europ.
     - Adde · Sweden · Dec 27, 2009 @ 5:07am

In order for the ink to stay on the fish they have to burn the slime coat off 1st by dipping them in acid then dying them. Its just stupid, I work at a pet store that will not buy any dyed fish because it is inhumane and it makes the fish less hardy.
     - JoAnn · florida · Jan 19, 2010 @ 2:43pm

I work at a pet store and this it disgusting! Its all the DAMN MONEY!All you republicans who say "you guys are crying over nothing" Well why the hell do you want YOUR money to go to another country? Think about that. Instead of staying here in the US. And YES IT DOES HURT THE FISH. I agree, if people were doing this dogs and cats oh there would be a law in the next few months. So what hell? Are fish so below us ? AND NO i dont eat fish, I cant stand it. And you guys call your selves "Good Christians." PAGANS make BETTER christians! I dont believe God wanted this! Yet here you are, playing god!OOOOH abortions? REALLY? And if you want to go down the route of saying there is more to worry about then this wtf ? All you christians are sooo worried about gay marraige when people in Africa are being murdered or here in our country people are being thrown out on teh street. Buts lets worry about abortion and gay marriage! just bullshit. And NO spaying is NOT CRUEL what is cruel is having animals roaming the streets hungry and getting hit by cars! THATS WHY WE SPAY. If you HAD HAVE A HEART YOU'D KNOW THAT!
     - Frances · Arizona · Feb 22, 2010 @ 3:17pm

We are loosing basic respect for all of life. This is not only about the un-natural defacement of one living creature. If we accept this act without questioning it and understanding deep down that it is wrong, no acceptions, we loose a part of our humanness. I personally believe we need to consume plants and animals for survival and nutrition. This is a very natural exchange. But to intentionally subject a living, feeling creation of God to torture for our own vanity is disgusting. And to promote this lack of respect for LIFE, which is targeted at children, is reprehensible. Just think about it. Where do you draw the line? If we don't draw the line with this defenseless creature, a fish, we aren't too far off from a complete lack of respect for any life, including humans. Don't let consumerism, vanity and money cloud your judgement. LISTEN to your heart and you will know that this is wrong. It might help to see one of these fish in person, it gives you such an ill feeling. Everything is easier to accept when it is at a distance. LIFE IN ALL LIVING FORMS IS LIFE...LIVE YOUR LIFE WITH RESPECT FOR ALL LIVING CREATURES, INCLUDING HUMANS AND YOURSELF. PASS THIS LESSON ONTO YOUR CHILDREN. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE. LOVE TO ALL.
     - Danielle S · Miami, USA · Mar 22, 2010 @ 4:13pm

I think they're absolutely beautiful.
     - HelloTheyCallMeYetiAndiHaveiNternetAccess · YellowStoneNationalPark · May 23, 2010 @ 9:17pm

I think is is pretty and if it dont hurt the fish i dont see a problem with it?
     - JAYMIE · IRONTON OHIO · Jul 3, 2010 @ 9:58am

i agree it's very very cruel , but on the other hand animal cruelty is wrong and it shoudn't be done so yeah ,but the way of life is hard and eventually they will die so there is no sense in saying they will live forever when it;s just a fish with a life that will unfortunately die someday.. it's a cruel way to make animals prettier than they are , but in reality they are pretty. now i have a tattooed molly fish and i love it so much. it has a good life and i treat it well. that's my opinion about that so.. good- bye. p.s. sorry if this is a little harsh , but it's the way it has to be.
     - rehah · orlando, florida · Aug 3, 2010 @ 10:25am