Glow Fish

I went to one of the chains in our town today and saw "Glow Fish" with a
trade mark cymble. The label went on to say engineered to glow in the dark,
works better with a UV light, ect. What is that all about????
And I felt bad about Blood Parrots.

They could be painted with a dye....

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:12:08 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

I went to one of the chains in our town today and saw "Glow Fish" with a
trade mark cymble. The label went on to say engineered to glow in the dark,
works better with a UV light, ect. What is that all about????
And I felt bad about Blood Parrots.


Genetically engineered zebra danios.

they won't let us have them in California

http://www.mongabay.com/external/glowing_fish.htm

http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invfish.html

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:57:05 GMT, Charles
wrote:

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:12:08 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

I went to one of the chains in our town today and saw "Glow Fish" with a
trade mark cymble. The label went on to say engineered to glow in the dark,
works better with a UV light, ect. What is that all about????
And I felt bad about Blood Parrots.


Genetically engineered zebra danios.

they won't let us have them in California

http://www.mongabay.com/external/glowing_fish.htm

http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invfish.html

I checked out these pages and all I can say is . . . but I won't
because we've been seeing enough bad language in the fish groups
lately.

-- Mister Gardener

"Charles" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:12:08 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

I went to one of the chains in our town today and saw "Glow Fish" with a
trade mark cymble. The label went on to say engineered to glow in the
dark,
works better with a UV light, ect. What is that all about????
And I felt bad about Blood Parrots.


Genetically engineered zebra danios.

they won't let us have them in California

http://www.mongabay.com/external/glowing_fish.htm

http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invfish.html

Well they are available in the US now, in Florida.

Mister Gardener wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:57:05 GMT, Charles
wrote:

Genetically engineered zebra danios.

they won't let us have them in California

http://www.mongabay.com/external/glowing_fish.htm

http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invfish.html

I checked out these pages and all I can say is . . . but I won't
because we've been seeing enough bad language in the fish groups
lately.

-- Mister Gardener

This isn't dyeing or tattooing and it causes the fish no pain or
suffering. I think celestial bubble eyed goldfish have it a lot worse. ;-)

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Agreed !!!!

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Mister Gardener wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:57:05 GMT, Charles
wrote:

Genetically engineered zebra danios.

they won't let us have them in California

http://www.mongabay.com/external/glowing_fish.htm

http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invfish.html

I checked out these pages and all I can say is . . . but I won't
because we've been seeing enough bad language in the fish groups
lately.

-- Mister Gardener

This isn't dyeing or tattooing and it causes the fish no pain or
suffering. I think celestial bubble eyed goldfish have it a lot worse.
;-)
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I have a pair of celestials and they seem to be blind. They do get around
their tank fine and know when the food is dropped in. I keep them with a
few platies that they compete with very well. I personally don't think it's
such a great idea breeding fish so far from the norm, but these don't seem
to be that negatively effected by the eye deformity.
--
Koi-Lo....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
Aquariums since 1952.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

They've been making green glowing mice for years (for scientific
research), I'm surprised the fish thing didn't come along sooner.

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:12:08 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

I went to one of the chains in our town today and saw "Glow Fish" with a
trade mark cymble. The label went on to say engineered to glow in the dark,
works better with a UV light, ect. What is that all about????
And I felt bad about Blood Parrots.



Glowfish, as already stated are gentically engineered. They have
been around for a number of years.

They are fish I used to push my wife into letting me get back into
aquaria.

In order to get the glow like you see in all the pictures, you need a
powerful UV light. The typical black-lights you see at novelty stores
and HomeDepot/Lowes will work, but are really not the best frequency.
The more light the better.

Once we had the 45 Gallon set up, cycled and settled in, we put 10
Glowfish and 10 regular Zebra Danio's. Two moves later we have 8 of
the ten zebra danios, but none of the Glowfish. They all died
between eight and twelve months after purchase.

In regular light they were nice, red zebra danios mixed in with silver
zebra danios, and really cool at night with the UV.. all green like
an almost dead glow stick.

I wouldn't do it again. Not worth the cost, IMHO.. 'less your a
school.....


--Tony