Wow I didn't know they have rainbow sharks?! That's cruel they need like 50 gallons and are pretty aggressive
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I didn't say it happened by accident. I said scientists used DNA from marine creatures to create the flourescence, to use fish to detect pollution in waters. Then that was also used to create fish for the pet trade. The first part, I agree with. The second part, I don't.I’m not sure where you read that, but that is incorrect:
“The original zebrafish (or zebra danio, Danio rerio) is a native of rivers in Indiaand Bangladesh. It measures three centimeters long and has gold and dark blue stripes. In 1999, Dr. Zhiyuan Gong[2] and his colleagues at the National University of Singapore were working with a gene that encodes the green fluorescent protein (GFP), originally extracted from a jellyfish, that naturally produced bright green fluorescence. They inserted the gene into a zebrafish embryo, allowing it to integrate into the zebrafish's genome, which caused the fish to be brightly fluorescent under both natural white light and ultraviolet light. Their goal was to develop a fish that could detect pollution by selectively fluorescing in the presence of environmental toxins. The development of the constantly fluorescing fish was the first step in this process, and the National University of Singapore filed a patent application on this work.[3] Shortly thereafter, his team developed a line of red fluorescent zebra fish by adding a gene from a sea coral, and orange-yellow fluorescent zebra fish, by adding a variant of the jellyfish gene. Later, a team of researchers at the National Taiwan University, headed by Professor Huai-Jen Tsai (蔡懷禎), succeeded in creating a medaka (rice fish) with a fluorescent green color, which, like the zebrafish, is a model organism used in biology.”
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish)
As you can see, they were not made by accident. They were created on purpose, and I just think it’s cruel. The original fish is beautiful, and shame on anyone who says otherwise.
GloFish are more vulnerable to predation compared to the wild-type, according to a study published in 2011.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish)
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oh yeah I did recently did see they had a ricefish variety now too.
I misread...
They took the genes (or fluorescents) that originally came from jellyfish, to make the neon green look. (Which was their first one)
They then went on to making purple and other colors, using the genes from marine coral. (I just read the whole Wikipedia page, lol)
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If it was all based on cuteness, I being sincerely cute, NONE of us would have been brought home!!! LMMO
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Here's mine: if your tank is well balance, you don't need to change the water as often as you think you do ...
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Thats it, I'm getting the popcorn ready for this one hahaha
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