We saw some of those the other day, they looked like neons and were like 3 bucks apiece,,,,
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Omg Glow In The Dark Fish!-what The?
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http://www.glofish.com
kindof a bias site though...being the company that makes them!
i think this is an incredibly dangerous concept, given the massive amount of stoopid people out there who somehow consider fish as less of a lifeform than other pets and therefore feel that its ok to treat them like c*#@p and flush down sewerage, and chuck into local drains/river systems.just because these fish geting out(and surviving) in the wild is improbable, doesnt mean its impossible !!!
and what about crossbreeding with regular zebra dannio? in another hundred years we may not have a pure strain left...will crossbreeds show the glow..or just carry it? ..already there are some fish kinda lost to the aquarium trade because of crossbreeding, and these were natural types
it kinda feels like monsanto soy all over again...where they say it wont get out, then when it did they tried to charge the farmers because they had patented the genetic fingerprint...
worrying, incredibly worrying
and they are NOT sterile
those guys dont glow.. you need a specific lighting (atinic,black light) to make them flourece
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Why waste 2 more bucks just for those unnatural glofish?
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These Pandas Rock
The glo-fish look awesome.
Put them in a tank with a black background, black sand, actinic lights and WOW!
My son has them, with a few neons and cardinals. If I could have another tank in the living room, I would get a tank with just them and some glow in the dark fake plants.
Everytime people post about them, it makes me like them that much more.
The more people hate them, the more I love them. They are the most mis-understood fish of all time.
They should call them X-Fish because they are mutants!
Put them in a tank with a black background, black sand, actinic lights and WOW!
My son has them, with a few neons and cardinals. If I could have another tank in the living room, I would get a tank with just them and some glow in the dark fake plants.
Everytime people post about them, it makes me like them that much more.
The more people hate them, the more I love them. They are the most mis-understood fish of all time.
They should call them X-Fish because they are mutants!
yes these fish have been out for a whyle though they have only just applied to import them into Australia, which is where i live...
i know these fish do not glow without certain lighting but they are still in no way the same colour as a regular danio under normal light conditions, this is what i ment by the 'glow' that the offspring might show or not.
i actually like these fish too, what i am against is the fact that they are hailed as a 'scientific breakthrough ' because people made them to use as a chemical water test, which, in my opinion is barbaric, we dont send canarys into mines anymore for obvious animal rights reasons, why they would then create a fish simply for this purpose is beyond me. why don't they just admit they just want to sell them. but that is trivial compared to my greatest issue with these fish is the lack of education surrounding them, i have so far heard many people say "there's no chance they will survive out in the wild in the possibility of release"- this is simply not true! sure i totaly agree that it is unlikely and improbable that these fish will survive in the wild, but it's not impossible! its all the people that are sure they wont survive that will give the uneducated person ie:child the idea that it will be ok to release them
after an hour under a blacklight/atinic light i don't feel all that great...i can't imagine how these fish would feel
Education... it's the key!
i know these fish do not glow without certain lighting but they are still in no way the same colour as a regular danio under normal light conditions, this is what i ment by the 'glow' that the offspring might show or not.
i actually like these fish too, what i am against is the fact that they are hailed as a 'scientific breakthrough ' because people made them to use as a chemical water test, which, in my opinion is barbaric, we dont send canarys into mines anymore for obvious animal rights reasons, why they would then create a fish simply for this purpose is beyond me. why don't they just admit they just want to sell them. but that is trivial compared to my greatest issue with these fish is the lack of education surrounding them, i have so far heard many people say "there's no chance they will survive out in the wild in the possibility of release"- this is simply not true! sure i totaly agree that it is unlikely and improbable that these fish will survive in the wild, but it's not impossible! its all the people that are sure they wont survive that will give the uneducated person ie:child the idea that it will be ok to release them
after an hour under a blacklight/atinic light i don't feel all that great...i can't imagine how these fish would feel
Education... it's the key!
there are so many awesome natural fish out there! with wonderful, sometimes iridescent colouration! infact, you could even say that all fish are misunderstood...
There are four main groups of pigments that can be used to provide colour in fish skin cells: melanins, carotenoids, pteridines, and purines. Melanins are responsible for the dark colouration seen in fishes. Carotenoids, which are lipid-soluble, dominate in giving the yellow to red colours. Pteridines are water-soluble compounds and result in bright colouration like the carotenoids. Pteridines play a small role in colouration when compared to carotenoids. In the purine compounds, guanine predominates, and large amounts of guanine can be found in the silvery belly skin of most species of fish. These basic compounds can be combined with other components, like proteins, to produce the blue, violet, and green colour ranges seen in fishes!
Is this not in itself a wonderfully complex and awe-inspiring reality? why would you settle for the not-so-natural glofish when you could have any number of beautiful fishes who have a background of slow evolution, and adaptation, fitting better and better into its particular niche with each generation? i know which i would choose, definitely not the fish with an option of three different colours created by a few genes in a lab, and definitely a fish with an option of thousands of colour combinations created by thousands of genes...
There are four main groups of pigments that can be used to provide colour in fish skin cells: melanins, carotenoids, pteridines, and purines. Melanins are responsible for the dark colouration seen in fishes. Carotenoids, which are lipid-soluble, dominate in giving the yellow to red colours. Pteridines are water-soluble compounds and result in bright colouration like the carotenoids. Pteridines play a small role in colouration when compared to carotenoids. In the purine compounds, guanine predominates, and large amounts of guanine can be found in the silvery belly skin of most species of fish. These basic compounds can be combined with other components, like proteins, to produce the blue, violet, and green colour ranges seen in fishes!
Is this not in itself a wonderfully complex and awe-inspiring reality? why would you settle for the not-so-natural glofish when you could have any number of beautiful fishes who have a background of slow evolution, and adaptation, fitting better and better into its particular niche with each generation? i know which i would choose, definitely not the fish with an option of three different colours created by a few genes in a lab, and definitely a fish with an option of thousands of colour combinations created by thousands of genes...
If these fish are the result of man made genetics IMO thats just grose. Ok so it may not be as bad as dying fish but how can we tell the fish is not suffering from this. Man has been playing god with this planet for too long what gives us the right. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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