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I have removed the cleanup tag on this article, after a couple of edits by myself. If anyone disagrees, just pop it back on there. It still needs some work and TLC. Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} 02:39, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Merge

I added a "mergeto" template with the article Juicing fish. That article is more thorough, and though it mentions manipulating hormones to change fishes' colors, it seems to exclusively treat the practice of dying or painting fish. It's more thorough than this article, although I think it should be renamed -- so I'm proposing Painted fish's content be merged into Juicing fish, but that the article use the name Painted fish, which is less colloquial. --Ginkgo100 03:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Although I got no feedback, I began merging the articles. --Ginkgo100 18:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hormones

It has been rumoured on one aquarium website that some brightly coloured "male" fishes in dealer tanks may actually consist of both males and females treated with hormones so all the fish, males and females alike, show male breeding colours even out of breeding season.^[1]

I am removing this content due to a lack of reliable sources on the use of this method. One person posting a theory on usenet in 1995 is not a reliable source. Neil916 (Talk) 15:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Health claims

An anonymous user added a citation needed template to the health claims section of this article. After reviewing the section I agree that it needed to be tightened up with better citations. I can't find any reliable sources for the claim, "Many dyed fish die during this stressful, painful, process and those that do survive often are susceptible to disease.". While such a statement is probably likely, I can't find anything non-bloggy or unbiased to back such a statement up, so I've removed it for now. If anybody can find something better than the comments on about.com, please cite it and put it back in the appropriate section. Also, the second reference by Jim Greenwood, B.V.Sc.. about kidney disease seems kind of iffy, as I can't find anything about this source other than his post to an aquarium club editorial page and the fact that B.V.Sc means Bachelor of veterinary sciences. I don't know what kind of credibility a Bachelor's degree offers, or whether this author really should be calling himself "Doctor", but I haven't turned up any peer-reviewed publications by this author. Likewise the other references in that article seem to be references to other local veterinarians in Austrialia with no published works that I could find. I've cleaned up the section as well as I could [1], but is anybody able to do some more digging on this? Neil916 (Talk) 06:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

^ "Steroids and Livebearers". The Krib. Retrieved 2006-05-19.

[1] "Steroids and Livebearers". The Krib. Retrieved 2006-05-19.

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