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 Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:53 pm
lets chit chat about these little suckers
they are really neat now that i know more about em
they looked real but weird
i knew they werent colored or dyed
and heres the scoop
they are bio-engineered zebra danios with a natural fluorescent gene and were bred to help detect poison in water supplies and when you buy these fish you are helping to pay for pollution research. they are a danio in every way except they glow :3
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:06 am
Holy wow!
Never before have I known,
Anything but a Neon to glow!
Speaking of, that sounds like a beautiful combination; a school of cardinals and the red Glo-fish.
I've never seen these kritters in a petshop before, then again, I've never lived in America. Guess I'll prolly never get to own these sweeties unless I find my way unto the black market.
There are just a few things I wonder, since the purpouse of these is to detect polution, how do they go about detecting it with the fish?
If they take water samples in, for example alaska, and place the fish in it, will changing the temperature affect the readings? If they don't change the temperature, won't the shock of the cold cause the fish to become fluerecent even if the water is not poluted? Since they say one of the triggers is stress.
So will this make the fish only valuable in tropical climates untill they got the technology for the goldfish and carps down?
Also what about the patents? Currently sale is only allowed in the US, does that mean once they worked out the glitches these fish can't be used third World countries because of the patent?
And while a danio appearantly can't do much damage as an invasive species, what if those carps escape into the wild? In my honest opinion, a gold fish's appetite is something frightfull.
Maybe they will eventually modify native species to carry the gene, so the native water and flora and fauna won't be threatened by escapees?
Eeh, I think too much, but I'm really interested in this, nice find!
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:19 pm
i think they could change the temp for the fish without affecting the pollution
pollution is pollution no matter what the temperature is
and my bf agrees with it...he knows a lot about chemistry @_@ he operated a nuclear reactor
i believe what he says XD
and i dont think they made the carp
i think they are saying they CAN make the carp
and f they DID make the carp they sure as heck aren't selling them to aquarists
i think these people know what they are doing and probably know a glowy goldfish isnt the best idea to sell to the mass of people who dont know how to care for em
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:41 am
I saw some of these at Walmart!
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:36 am
I adore glow fish, perhaps even more now.
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:12 am
if i had space for my 30 gallon (sitting in the basement right now) i'd totally set it up for these little guys
but i have no space right now and i think my mom would kill me if i did set it up XD
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:45 pm
Aww man, that's too bad.
Hmm, guess we can't have it all :/
Any chance you'll be getting more space soon or not?
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:01 pm
when i move out of my parents house (after i graduate college some time) my bf and i will try to get a house (cheaper than an apartment right now)
and lucky for me hes tank crazy as well XD he likes the saltwater and i like fresh
we have LOTS of spare tanks just no place to put em right now (he lives with his mom too while he pays off some debt) if we have an empty tank we wanna put an animal in it XD
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:52 am
Wow,
You are really lucky ^^, nice catch.
None of the guys I dated were particularry interested in fish. They thought it was cute at best, but mostly too wierd for words.
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:48 pm
we cant go to any kind of fish store without bringing SOMETHING home XD
we recently got an electric flame scallop
its scooted around the tank some
its very cool looking but sadly its facing the back of the tank @_@ maybe it will move some more in a better viewing spot
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:25 am
I just realized how EPIC these would be for tank cycling. Danios are good anyway...and these glow with toxins. o.o
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:55 pm
It's my understanding the gene manipulation that added the "glow" to these guys had something to do with adding a gene from some sort of corral. They are supposed to glow really brightly under blacklight! They are making special tanks (the one's i've seen in my opinion are too small) fitted with blacklights. Its easy to find glow in the dark plastic plants as well. It would sure make an interesting tank!!!!
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:42 pm
The biology life science building in my college has a tank filled with them and they turned on the black light every once in a while just to get people to stop and look.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:09 am
Ta Lu The biology life science building in my college has a tank filled with them and they turned on the black light every once in a while just to get people to stop and look. I am so jealous now. All we have is a cichlid tank with an unmoving oversized catfish as centerpiece.
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