Glo Cory's???

[WhistlingBadger]

I think this devides us, like republicans and democrats, Catholics, and Baptists

Ford and Chevy.

I'm not a fan of glowfish either, so I don't buy them. I don't have the option of not patronizing any store that sells them, though. I just don't buy them.

 

[GaryE]

An encouraging thing I've seen regionally has been the return of Pristella maxillaris. First, there was a bleeding heart deformity, and you couldn't get wild form ones from this once core of the hobby species. The another mutant kicked in, and wild coloured ones were impossible to find. Now they have been glo-gened. But you can also get wild form Pristellas again, and the cheerful, jaunty little wild form is popular again. It's a great fish, and it has replaced the linebred mutants. Maybe it'll replace the glo version too.
Regionally here, widow tetras had become very unpopular, but when they were "glo-ed", that old standard became a new standard again (I have never liked that fish).
So while linebred forms of some fish have pushed "real" forms out of the hobby, it hasn't always been the case. There's hope.

I don't see nearly as many balloon fish around here anymore. That I consider to be cruelty breeding.

We don't have Republicans and Democrats, and Baptists are uncommon in most of the country. The divisions are like Habs versus Leafs.

 

[Essjay]

No doubt they will be there on eBay.

Not in the UK. I discovered a couple of days ago that UK eBay has banned the sales of fish and inverts. (I was looking for Neocaridinas and there weren't any. Then I looked for snails and none of those either. Google provided the answer).
At least there won't be any Glo-fish on there.

 

[GaryE]

I think the bans were based on copyright laws. Those fish copyrighted. They were banned because of that in Canada.

The EU also had, maybe has bans.

 

[Magnum Man]

to throw a wrench the other way... and yes I know the difference, but are they really that far, from long, line bred fancy gold fish, betas, or the long fin cory's that I have right now, and am enjoying those... I have tanks with mostly wild caught, or wild type colors, and tanks with line bred fish... is it really so far off, to have a tank set up just for glo fish... perhaps in a black light room full of those colorful black light posters ( or truly showing my age ) black light velvet painting

 

[Essjay]

I don't know about the EU, but there are laws in the UK controlling the use of all GMOs. Those for research purposes are allowed, after the researcher has managed to get permission. Food containing GMOs must bear a label stating that the food item contains them.

 

[GaryE]

to throw a wrench the other way... and yes I know the difference, but are they really that far, from long, line bred fancy gold fish, betas, or the long fin cory's that I have right now, and am enjoying those... I have tanks with mostly wild caught, or wild type colors, and tanks with line bred fish... is it really so far off, to have a tank set up just for glo fish... perhaps in a black light room full of those colorful black light posters ( or truly showing my age ) black light velvet painting

That's just a matter of what you like. There are some (to turn the wrench) who think keeping any fish is unethical. So it's a fish slime slope, really, going in all directions since we're standing at the top of a Discus cone.
If I go to your house and you have serious decoration with velvet Elvis and velvet matadors everywhere, I won't ask you for help choosing a shirt. I can't help it. If I see glofish, I'll figure we have different tastes, but no more than that. If I see you have surgically implanted horns and a surgically split tongue, I'll not suggest you put music on.

I don't like linebred fish. I wince inside when I see long finned Corys or fancy guppies. I don't like barbecued ribs or mushy peas. Who cares? Your tanks should be what you like. You'd probably find my set up boring.

 

[MaloK]

If it's been genetically bred and selected to get there, I have no problems... This involves a lot of love...

But if it's shot with not really depleted radio active engine coolant...

Guess what I think...

 

[GaryE]

But if it's shot with not really depleted radio active engine coolant...
Guess what I think...

That it's kind of cool?

 

[MaloK]

That it's kind of cool?

Until nuclear Fishion happens.

 

[Innesfan]

Why does a patent or trademark--don't know which applies to Glo-monsters--prevent them from being sold in Canada, the UK, or anywhere for that matter?

 

[gwand]

When I was actively engaged in research I selectively bred mice that would prefer to drink alcohol when given a choice between a sugar solution or alcohol. After multiple generations of selecting on this phenotype I had alcohol preferring mice that consumed copious amounts of alcohol. Then I would sacrifice them and interrogate their mesolimbic system to identify the neurocircuitry responsible for alcohol preference and dependence. Call me a monster. But I did not make the mice glo! My colleague did that.

 

[MaloK]

Why does a patent or trademark--

The corn you are buying has been for decades. Canada hosted the broadest researches And Usa are number 1 on delivering GMO's on the large.

 

[Back in the fold]

I shall quote a certain Mr. Brown you may be familiar with . “ Good grief “ .

 

[Back in the fold]

If I go to your house and you have serious decoration with velvet Elvis and velvet matadors everywhere, I won't ask you for help choosing a shirt.

I wouldn’t mind a Comrade Lenin done in velvet .