Glowing Fish?

[paperdragon]

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Wrong. I can't believe any of you support this or have no problem with such a practice. These fish are injected (that is essentially a needle going into these fish) with a foreign gene. I don't care what the gene does or what it's for- it does not belong to the fish.

Fish in both saltwater and freshwater environments are available in a multitude of coloring. There is NO need to support a trade (and no doubt this will grow into a fad) where fish glow in the dark when they naturally don't. Only a few marine species of fish glow in the dark and they've evolved such a trait as it benefits them somehow.

Most people are ignorant. Don't be like most people- you're in this hobby to care for awesome animals and give them the best care possible. Think again about crap done to fish (or any animal) to make them more profitable.

Actually, my brother was contacted for a job in one of the research labs that actually created glo-fish. All glofish in existence are offspring of the ones that were developed solely for research, and nothing at all is done to the individual fish that are sold in stores now. So really, it's not hurting any animals to sell them.

And no, they didn't stick needles in the fish to get them that way in the first place. This stuff is pretty much exclusively done with delveloping embros.

The way I see it, if these fish were already in exitence for research purposes, it's not going to hurt anything to let them breed and sell the offspring as long as they're not going to be released into the wild.

 

[evelyn80]

glowfish are made a lot more humanely then other painted fish such blue berry tetras or painted glass fish. i was actually considering getting a few for my 15 once my i sell my other danios and black neons. and how could glofish by sterile? does the gene some how make them infertile?

 

[Teto]

They can not be infertil because the website says that they pass the gene form one generation to another. if the were sterile they would have to modify every fish. and boy i think that would be expensive...