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I'm against selective breeding, but I still keep swordtails and a few others.
IMHO, to selectively breed to get bright dazzling colors, long fins that the fish drags around, and weird growths and stuff like that makes the natural beauty of a wild fish cheap. Also, some of the improvements may not be improvements at all. I noticed that if any wild type looking mollies(large sails, green) find there way into a tank full of white lyretails, they will quickly dissapear as customers by them over the lyretails.
IMHO, to selectively breed to get bright dazzling colors, long fins that the fish drags around, and weird growths and stuff like that makes the natural beauty of a wild fish cheap. Also, some of the improvements may not be improvements at all. I noticed that if any wild type looking mollies(large sails, green) find there way into a tank full of white lyretails, they will quickly dissapear as customers by them over the lyretails.