Glo-Fish = Danios

[NUMB3RS]

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

LOL!! That's where I got the thread idea from! I was watching it today and the idea GloFish look exactly like Zebra Danios and BOOM the idea got to my head that glofish were a strain from zebra danios, i guess i wasn't very observant toward glofish.

 

[excuzzzeme]

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

Good! Let's see proof that it isn't harmful. Until such time I will and do consider them to be freaks and not true species regardless of their DNA. Only time will prove this out.

 

[coach_z]

we are a chemically injected and DNA modified society/world.....until that changes this will be an accepted practice. i went out to buy 4-5 of them with my girlfriend today only reason that we didnt was becase the store we were at had them at $10 a piece...

 

[7itanium]

all they have done is added a special gene for color... it came from a jellyfish

if two glofish mate-- you get more glofish... but if you breed a glofish with a regular danio-- you get a striped glofish

intereting... but in no way harmful.. and it doesnt deserve to be compared with dying/tattooing fish

 

[rocker92]

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.

you cant get in trouble for breeding them...... if you have males and females in a tank(and there are male and female glofish) there is almost no way to stop them from breeding. when a person breeds them and SELLS them, then they can be fined or put in jail(im not sure what happens). but because it is pattented you can't sell them.

 

[7itanium]

you cant get in trouble for breeding them...... if you have male and females in a tank(and there are male and female glofish) there is almost no way to stop them from breeding. when a person breeds them and SELLS them they can be fined or put in jail(im not sure what happens). but because it is pattented you can't sell them.

the law says it is illegal to "intentionally breed them" doesnt say anything about selling

keeping them in the same tank and having them bear fry naturally is one thing

but if you were to set up a breeding tank intentionally and freely talk about it.. you could get busted

 

[venarius]

Either way, their not my cup of tea...

But my girlfriend loves them... Really wants one or two for her tank...

 

[rocker92]

the law says it is illegal to "intentionally breed them" doesnt say anything about selling

keeping them in the same tank and having them bear fry naturally is one thing

but if you were to set up a breeding tank intentionally and freely talk about it.. you could get busted

i think it is more of an "intention to sell" that will get you will get you in trouble. you can breed them all you want but you cannot sell them.(give them away and nobody should care) and why couldnt you tell them that it isnt a breeding tank but just another species tank????? some itdots would never know the difference.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

California game and fish has very strict rules about what types of fish are legal. Fear of ecological damage I think.

And about the recessive gene issue, when the fish is altered, both sets of genes in both parents can be spliced, passing that gene 100% of the time and expressed 100% of the time, because it's the only "type" of that gene available.

there is cali laws about anything gen modified like you said. nothing to do with the eco damage.

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.

yes this is right.

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.

right on...

you cant get in trouble for breeding them...... if you have males and females in a tank(and there are male and female glofish) there is almost no way to stop them from breeding. when a person breeds them and SELLS them, then they can be fined or put in jail(im not sure what happens). but because it is pattented you can't sell them.

its civil you wont be tossed in jail they could and will sue you.

i think it is more of an "intention to sell" that will get you will get you in trouble. you can breed them all you want but you cannot sell them.(give them away and nobody should care) and why couldnt you tell them that it isnt a breeding tank but just another species tank????? some itdots would never know the difference.

everything i read its breeding to sell. if you breed them for your owe use i think its fine.

 

[Fish-Addict]

I would like to add, that we in the UK don't have them because they just havent been approved yet, not because they are banned. They are still undergoing consideration.

It is the same case in many other countries too.