Glow Fish

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

ToeKnee 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.




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
or you could get a glowlight tetra, unless they are geneticly alterterd.
They glow in the light and dark. had three for about a year and they
glow when things are good. I know water needs changeing when they get
dull(just kidding)