# NEWSFLASH: Chinese fighting fish are pacifists. **URL:** \ **Category:** Kung Fu Forum\ **Created:** [December 6, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262 "2001-12-06T01:19:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/kungfumagazine/original/2X/e/ee79c1ddba056fb2c94515d43d7de1be82ac7fa6.png) [@system](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262/1 "2001-12-06T01:19:39Z")
I was at this Party the other day. Some guys from my high school bought two beta fish to fight for gladitorial entertainment at the party. These guys are \*\*\*\*s, anyways, they put the fish in just the right water and the fish just swam together, they put them in increasingly small spaces and added warmer water, but still they just blinked at each other. How can their be a fish kicking style based on their fighting, when they don’t fight?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_of\_Fury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Fish\_of\_Fury](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Fish_of_Fury)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262/2 "2001-12-06T01:24:31Z")
AH STACEY it was a good party wasn’t it? i’m sorry you didn’t enjoy my demonstration more, but to me it’s good tank sense to talk my way out of such altercations rather than indulge in piscean pugilism 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![joedoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@joedoe](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/joedoe)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262/3 "2001-12-06T01:52:34Z")
Maybe those fish were long-lost brothers and once reunited, they could not bring themselves to fight. 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chang\_Style\_Novice](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/chang_style_novice/32/110_2.png) [@Chang\_Style\_Novice](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Chang_Style_Novice)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262/4 "2001-12-06T01:56:53Z")
“How can their be a fish kicking style based on their fighting, when they don’t fight?” Ummm…or legs and feet to kick with? Maybe I’m behind the times, but evolution isn’t moving that quickly, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Nemo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/mr_nemo/32/68_2.png) [@Mr\_Nemo](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Mr_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262/5 "2001-12-06T02:34:28Z")
Fighting Pit Bulls: Why don’t you chinese fighting fish step into the ring and put it on the line? Chinese Fighting Fish: There are rules in the ring. Our techniques are too deadly. Fighting for sport is not the kung fu way. Snatch the pebble from my hand, grasshopper. ---
**Author:** ![joedoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@joedoe](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/joedoe)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262/6 "2001-12-06T02:37:09Z")
So do fighting fish practice Shaolin Longfish, or Liu He Ba Fa (Water boxing)? 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_of\_Fury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Fish\_of\_Fury](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Fish_of_Fury)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262/7 "2001-12-06T06:47:25Z")
at the higher levels we become swordfish! or if we train ninjutsu we become killer whales ---
**Author:** ![KungFuGuy1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/kungfuguy1/32/204_2.png) [@KungFuGuy1](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/KungFuGuy1)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/newsflash-chinese-fighting-fish-are-pacifists/7262/8 "2001-12-06T07:01:47Z")
They didn’t fight because they were probably of opposite sex. Only male fighting fish kill each other.