EE breeding

[louisvillelady]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTChWfPYHyw

Swimming is swimming no matter what type of animal or human you are. You just swim in a different manner. Swimming is pushing yourself through the water. Watch the video. When the pectoral fin goes forward, the ends of the fins fold backward, causing a drag. When the pectoral fins go backward toward the body, the ends of the fins want to go forward, because of the drag. The physics is there. plain as day right in front of us. Can these fish swim, yes. Can they swim comparatively as well as others, maybe. Do they need to work harder to be able to do these things, yes!

Mattsbettas, "And louisvillelady, your intentions don't really matter, this thread was has become /was created for the sole purpose of attacking ee and the people who like and breed them." Do you make it a habit to go around telling people why they did something? You do not know me. What makes you think you know why this thread was created? I told you why it was created. To bring it to peoples attention that we should be more conscientious about what we breed into these fish. Some people will be extremely cautious. Some people will not care one hill of beans what it does to the fish as long as the fish are what they want. Others may not have thought about it, and this thread will get them to stop and think about it. THAT is why this thread was created. And no one is attacking ee or the breeders of ee. I said the excessive ee should not be breed. If you feel differently, fine, but I have the right to say that I don't think they should be breed and to explain why. Everyone else has the right to make up their minds as well.

[logisticsguy]

Originally Posted by louisvillelady

If all of those who believe that the large ee is not a hindrance to the fish, why don't you go patent floppy style fins for people to go scuba diving with? It is a product that cannot be found on the market, and you should make you a killing if the floppy material helps you swim better and faster.

The flippers I use for scuba diving are very floppy. Not very stiff as they are made with a rubber compound not wooden like at all. Already on the market in various degrees of floppiness.

[Skyewillow]

This thread has become a joke. I'm done wasting my time here. I know what I know about MY fish, and if you don't take the time to know them for what they are before you start spouting off, then that's your own problem.

I LOVE my EE, I plan on getting more, and eventually breeding them. Like it or lump it, you don't know me well enough to have an opinion that matters to me.

If you really want to attack a breed, go after the double tails with their mutilated backs that have to be outcrossed to have healthy spawns.

[Xaltd1]

Originally Posted by Skyewillow

This thread has become a joke. I'm done wasting my time here. I know what I know about MY fish, and if you don't take the time to know them for what they are before you start spouting off, then that's your own problem.

I LOVE my EE, I plan on getting more, and eventually breeding them. Like it or lump it, you don't know me well enough to have an opinion that matters to me.

If you really want to attack a breed, go after the double tails with their mutilated backs that have to be outcrossed to have healthy spawns.

X2 for me. My EEs are happy fish. Period.

[logisticsguy]

Originally Posted by Xaltd1

X2 for me. My EEs are happy fish. Period.

THIS is all that really matters.

[Option]

Originally Posted by Skyewillow

This thread has become a joke. I'm done wasting my time here.

Well in all honestly, no one here is asking for your post or contribution. Allow those who want to debate the topic to have at it. If you can't take the heat, no one is asking for you to be in the kitchen.

Originally Posted by Skyewillow

If you really want to attack a breed, go after the double tails with their mutilated backs that have to be outcrossed to have healthy spawns.

I wouldn't say that too loudly....there are equally as many double-tail fanatics in here as there are EE zealots.

[Skyewillow]

Originally Posted by Option

I wouldn't say that too loudly....there are equally as many double-tail fanatics in here as there are EE zealots.

exactly my point.

[logisticsguy]

I see no zealots here just some people waiting for evidence of the "scientific fact" that EEs are indeed handicapped.

[LadyVictorian]

First off let me say this...lionfish....are they cruel/ Because nature made them and their pectorals make an EE's a total JOKE YET guess what, these guys are WILD fish SURVIVING in the wild and not bred by man. So really the argument about EE's and breeding them being cruel is null because nature has created the extream of that and it's still doing just fine in nature. In fact it's a deadly animal even.

Also as a mermaid (yes this exists I train all summer long for this sort of thing) I know the TRUE mechanism's of tails and pectorals like this. You say the way the pectorals flow creates drag, NO not true. My store bought mermaid tail I own own this same way when I swim in it and it doesn't create drag it creates push force and actually makes me go faster than most divers with their flippers can move. In fact a diver with flippers with never move as fast as someone with a monofin or mertail. And the larger the mertail the faster you can go. Yes it takes building up the muscles to control it but when an animal is born that way and not given a tail by the manufacturing of a fake one as I have then the whole muscle issue isn't even there because they lived with them their whole lives unlike I who had to learn how to control my new limb want proof watch this it's the same thing you see with these fins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=...c&feature=fvwp

So in all reality no pun intended but the EE argument holds no water.

[Option]

Originally Posted by LadyVictorian

First off let me say this...lionfish....are they cruel/ Because nature made them and their pectorals make an EE's a total JOKE YET guess what, these guys are WILD fish SURVIVING in the wild and not bred by man.

OMG I can't believe we're going here. Do I even need to....LIONFISH HAVE poison spines!!!! Thus they can have AS BIG OF PECTORAL FINS as they want and still survivie! How can anyone even compare bettas to lionfish??????? You are comparing apples to oranges here, do you not realize?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm now laughing so hard I may end up with a seizure)

Good jesus....I mean sharks have big pectorals too (and they don't even undulate) and wait...they suriviv in the wild too!