Magic show - "Wishing for you to get lots of fish year after year !

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cAMAy-WL4

[Serpo]

A Chinese magician has sparked outrage from animal rights groups with a trick in which he gets goldfish to swim in sync, prompting China's state broadcaster to cancel an encore performance Thursday.

However, a separate regional broadcaster said magician Fu Yandong would perform the controversial trick again on Thursday night -- and reveal its secret so as to silence his critics.

Fu dazzled audiences two weeks ago with the trick and had planned a repeat performance Thursday on a Lunar New Year holiday show on China Central Television (CCTV).

A CCTV spokeswoman told AFP he would not perform on the show, declining to give further details.

Animal rights activists cried foul over the stunt, saying Fu had likely fed the fish magnets -- or implanted them in the fish -- so they could be dragged around their tank from underneath.

They said the trick amounted to animal cruelty.

Fu's agent Liang Ming also was quoted by the China Daily saying he would not perform the trick.

The CCTV gala marks the end of the Lantern Festival, which signifies the conclusion of China's roughly two-week Lunar New Year holiday, the nation's biggest and most important festival.

Fu had been billed as one of the highlights of the Lantern Festival show.

Hundreds of millions of viewers watched Fu perform the trick two weeks earlier on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, China's most watched programme of the year.

The trick -- which can be seen online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cAMAy-WL4 -- involves six fish in a shallow tank on a covered table, who swim in formation at Fu's command.

Fu has so far refused to reveal the secret.

"My fish," he wrote on his microblog, are "living happily".

But his assurances have failed to quell the controversy.

In an open letter on Monday, 53 Chinese non-governmental organisations urged TV stations not to broadcast Fu's act in the future, and demanded the trick not be repeated during CCTV's Lantern Festival special.

The groups expressed fears the trick could lead to animals being tortured if viewers tried to copy it.

"Fu Yandong, based on the tradition of secrecy in the world of magic, refuses to reveal what lies under his trick. So the public remains unclear whether the fishes' safety is assured," the letter said.

But regional broadcaster Hunan Television, which has booked Fu to perform live for its own Lantern Festival special, said on its website Thursday he would perform the trick on the show and reveal the secret. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d91e3775fd5b821f0b35dc7f0cbb52f c.91&show_article=1

[Jazkal]

My guess:

The trick is done with lasers.

Watch the video, when they are swimming in tandem, you can see the red lasers in the tank.

Could be wrong, but then why are the lasers there only when the 'trick' is being done?

[Serpo]

My guess:

The trick is done with lasers.

Watch the video, when they are swimming in tandem, you can see the red lasers in the tank.

Could be wrong, but then why are the lasers there only when the 'trick' is being done?


How would lasers do it though....

One thing you have to admit is that it is very .............fishy

[Spectrism]

Strong magnets is what I thought. There was one time when the camera cut away as a fish was turning upside down. The magnet pull was too fast.

[Bullion_Bob]

Those fish are being manipulated by hand somehow.

There's no way those fish are real, the way they move is so fake.

It looks like they are on a stick being moved from below somehow.

[Serpo]

Those fish are being manipulated by hand somehow.

There's no way those fish are real, the way they move is so fake.

It looks like they are on a stick being moved from below somehow.


What about the other trick ,that fish is real.........I think haha