Glo-Fish = Danios

There are many fish in the hobby today that do not look like their wild counter parts, because we have tampered with them at one point or another. Look at the betta for one or the mickey mouse platy. The gold barb is said to be one of the few freshwater fish if caught in the wild that would look like the one in the hobby.

It seems that people either like them or they don't. I've noticed, they seem to really appeal to kids the most. They are pricey and I have seen that they don't seem as hardy as the regular zebra danios. At work the zebra danios are in one tank and the Glofish are in another tank and it seems that the Glofish will die more often then the zebra danios even though they are the same fish.

I don't see any problems if you bought Glofish and they bred. It becomes a problem if you try and sell them. If you go to the website they make it sound like they are sterile, but we know that to be untrue.
 
How do the bettas and mickey mouse platies get their coloration, tail, and unique patterns? Do they inject them? Or do they dye them?
 
They are a hybrid selectively bread for the color variation
 
How did they get the Mickey Mouse on the Platies Tails?
 
It's just color patterning. It naturally occurs.
 
Man Made fish?

Well any animal selectively bred by humans will yield a result untypical of nature.

So technically, many many fish are 'man made'.

But another great example of the extreme man made fish are the painted glass fish my girlfriend just bought today.

Dyed with colors that fade in a few months, she bought two today.

Glass-Fish.jpg


Not my pic but...
 
What does a Jellybean Parrot looklike without the dye?
 
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