Glo-Fish = Danios

[NUMB3RS]

my bad, Have you ever thought about them using Long Fin Danios to make Long Fin Glo Light Danios?

 

[DarrylR]

Some people have bred glofish with regular zebra danios with pretty interesting results, if they can do it with zebras surely they can breed them with long finned zebras.

 

[looney417]

I know not everyone is a biological science...person, but dang, some of you guys say the weeeeeird-est stuff.

 

[leeser28]

I know not everyone is a biological science...person, but dang, some of you guys say the weeeeeird-est stuff.

:lol:

 

[leeser28]

Some people have bred glofish with regular zebra danios with pretty interesting results, if they can do it with zebras surely they can breed them with long finned zebras.

Again, I think whoever does that could run into legal trouble because the parent glofish gene belongs to someone else, so breeding them at all is illegal.

 

[Dwarf Puffers]

i would love to see some other gene-changed fish. thats really interesting

id love to see somProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 20kind of cichlid with that gene in them

I wouldn't. I want to go into a fish store and see natural fish, that, by the colouration, could have been caught right out of the wild or have been bred for a certain colour that still looks natural. I don't want to see the store glowing so neon with fish it gives me a headache.

Also, glow light tetras are not genetically altered.

Neither are the choprae (Just thought I'd add this so nobody gets mixed up). I usually spell "glow" properly, even when talking about "GloFish".

 

[Lupin]

I think it's illegal to breed and sell the fry because this genetic strain is patented, not for fear of ecological or biological issues.

Yet there was one local magazine quoting that Germany, UK and New Zealand banned glofish for ecological and biological reasons.

 

[leeser28]

I think it has to do with fear of anything genetically modified. There's a blanket ban in many countries, and in California, that prohibits anything genetically engineered until it is proven to not be an ecological danger -- which is up to the seller to pay for and prove.

 

[dpenguinfish]

I thought the Gene came from Jellyfish since Scientist used their genes on fertilized mice eggs and when they were born the baby mice were fluoresent under some sort of light. The jellyfish gene was recessive, which made it only visible under a certain light, the gene GloFish have must have been Dominant because they have been breeding and their babies are also fluoresent. Im not sure about the legal law thing in certain states but alot of fish are illegal in CA for some reason.

i saw this on wierd true and freaky an animal planet show

 

[DarrylR]

Again, I think whoever does that could run into legal trouble because the parent glofish gene belongs to someone else, so breeding them at all is illegal.

That was another conversation about crossbreeding seeing it is a completely new fish and wonder if that person who crossbred can patten the new species. Or does the people who created glofish still have authority over the new species.