When references are made to the glo-fish that is a genetically modified
danio. Those are only available in red. There are also natural strains of
red Danios. The yellow, blue, green ones are a genetically modified rice
fish and was developed by the Taikong Corporation in Taiwan. For the purpose
of research of polluted water. It was the American ornamental community that
came up with the Danio for profit.

The Taikong fish are almost 100% sterile and there is like a 1% chance of
you getting a male and a female that can breed. The American copy is very
easily bred because they never put much into researching how they could stop
the fish from reproducing if they ever got released into the wild by
irresponsible fish keepers. You see the Taiwan company was responsible
because they were going to release these fish in the wild to see if they
could live and find where there was pollution. They did sell to the
ornamental trade to help fund the research and bring it to the public
because demand was too huge to ignore. The American firm was after profit
first.



"stuarth" wrote in message
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I just feel bad for the glowlights because they are sterile

Only 90% of them...
The scientist couldn't get a 100% target rate.

Did you watch the Movie Jurassic Park?? ;-))


They'll get into the wild eventually.
You can bet your last dollar on it that some twit will release them
into a river.

I feel that if we start buying these little monsters, what's to stop
them GM'ing another bigger fish or even another bigger pet?

On the 'its not caused any suffering angle'. I wonder how many
genetically deformed fry the scientist made before he got fish that
were just what he wanted. A few thousand?

Is exposing a fish to only UV light even natural?

Things to think about surely.