Brand new brand of fish

[Tropicalfishfn]

Theres going to be a fish artificially made and it's freshwater and there going for sale in like a couple of months or a year. my question is what do you think of it and have you heard about this ?

 

[rsz]

i haven't heard about it, i don't understand how they'll make it and i don't really want one in my tank

 

[MAM]

what kind of fish? any links so we can see it and read about this a little?

 

[guppymonkey]

I have heard about a glow in the dark fish. I don't have the link but I saw an article on it. They inject the fish will something from jellyfish that makes them glow in the dark. This can't be healthy!

 

[Tropicalfishfn]

yup thats exactly what i heard but i heard it at school durring lunch i was like hmm :smb: it can't be good at all but they are going to do it and sell them. I am not going to get one

 

[MAM]

like these maybe? http/www.glofish.com/
http/www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_58164...nceanddiscovery

 

[thecichlidaddict]

That's the one... but whatever, if people want to pay 10x more fore a stupid engineered fish that they can sort of see at night if they look carefully, then let them.

engineering is something that cichlid fans must deal with all the time, and it can be painful to see - look at parrot, flowerhorn, tailess flower horn etc.

 

[Juggernaut22988]

They will eventually come up with a better species that glow naturally so there is no point in buying artificial ones


I heard on another fish forum that a batch of oscars are going to be raised on purely neon orange colour food so they will all eventually become neon orange
Pretty crazy if you ask me???

 

[guppymonkey]

They will eventually come up with a better species that glow naturally so there is no point in buying artificial ones


I heard on another fish forum that a batch of oscars are going to be raised on purely neon orange colour food so they will all eventually become neon orange
Pretty crazy if you ask me???

There is no way to have naturally glowing fish unless they glowed in the wild and unless they are living in nuclear runoff rivers (which could be possible but not exactly healthy) than they wouldn't glow. As for the neon oscars. Its not healthy, none of the color enhancing food is really all that healthy for fish. Most color enhancing food contains hormones similar to the ones that are produced during mating season. When these hormones are in the food it stimulates brighter mating colors. If its a constant supply of hormones it damages the fishes organs. It would be like living on adreneline 24 hrs a day, the body starts wearing out very quickly.

I am not sure what the obsession is with injecting fish to make them different. There are fish that are every imaginable color and these fish occur naturally. Some fish have been selectively bred for brighter colors. Why inject the fish to make them glow? Who looks at a tank in the dark anyways? If people tried injecting dogs with glow in the dark substances it would be illegal but they are selling fish like that and its completely fine. Its a double standard!

 

[brookie]

i read about the fish in time magazine and on a news station they are selling them inthe US for $5 and they turn red on there under bellies at night they did inject them with genes from jelly fish and they did the same thing with a rabbit. the man that is responsible fixes all the fish so that they can not become populated in lakes and streams.