Glow Fish

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

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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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.
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Aquariums since 1952.
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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.
;-)
=========================
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



I agree with you 100% I don't know if you remember the bubble eye goldfish I
seen at petsmart who's bubble was popped, it was having a hard time swimming
and it does not grow back so he will have problems until he gets used to it
I guess. another thing breeders are doing is breeding different fish
together there are some cichlids that are breed from two other fish and
don't do well or live quite as long as others.
Nik

I just feel bad for the glowlights because they are sterile

I mean the glowfish (trademark, patent, copyright) or whatever are
sterile, not glowlight tetras, just to be clear...

sidebar.... what does it take to trademark a fish species? Jack Watley
Discus for example, I believe they have TM by some of their names... so
watch out if you want to breed "Red Panda" tetras, you could have a law
suit on your hands! Are these even different species? ugh, I need to
take a biology class (and stay awake for it this time).

On 25 Apr 2006 05:45:27 -0700, "Adam"
wrote:

I just feel bad for the glowlights because they are sterile


Don't tell the ones I had that.... had three sets of fry before the
last died.

Two fo the fry were allowed to mature, the rest were fed to the
Angelfish... who really enjoyed the snack.

Best I can tell "glowfish are sterile" was a rumour....


--Tony

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.

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.



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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.