Glo Cory's???

[MaloK]

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

That would make a great rug.

 

[Back in the fold]

That would make a great rug.

Actually I would prefer Trotsky on a rug so I can walk all over him .

 

[MattW]

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.

I saw that as well. I did actually find one eBay listing. The seller sold live shrimp but under a different title. I think it was something like “Aquatic Pet Ornaments”. They would only sell through contact off the eBay site and was cash collection only.

 

[GaryE]

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?

Different copyright laws, what's written to work with one legal system won't work with another. Glofish, as an example are always dead easy to breed species and any half-skilled hobbyist can pump them out like weeds. How different countries deal with those issues of copyright ownership differs, as well as how they want to deal with it. They were patented as water treatment tools, not pet trade fish.
Glofish are legal here now, which was bad news for the few glo-bootleggers.
Some pet shops who sold them during the ban were fined, but enforcement was a pain.
In some areas, they were used by PETA type aquarium ban movements to argue the fishkeeping world had no interest in nature or learning and was just wasting life for fun. Those groups have had more clout in Europe than North America or Asia, but they are always lobbying.

 

[Magnum Man]

I as told they do something to them, to render them sterile like pressurize them or some such, before sale to the public... but if there are people breeding them, then that was either rumor, or ineffective...

 

[GaryE]

I think it was manipulative - just trying to discourage people from trying. I heard the same sterilized fish rumours.
There was an accidental import early on, when an Indonesian farm substituted species to a buyer here. The store that received them was terrified of being sued by the copyright holders, and gave them to a friend of mine who was in the store when the boxes were opened. They were glo danios and glo widows, and they bred easily and in great numbers. The breeder sold a few via the club, but no store would buy them from him so he gave up.
The rumours of sterilization have been out about a lot of species. Congo tetras also had that story around them at one point, and I knew people who bred buckets of them.

 

[Back in the fold]

Here’s a thought . If mad scientists can do this to fish what must they be doing to humans in some secret laboratory ? Oh , you say , they can’t do anything like that ! It would be unethical . When has that ever stopped them ?

 

[GaryE]

Here’s a thought . If mad scientists can do this to fish what must they be doing to humans in some secret laboratory ? Oh , you say , they can’t do anything like that ! It would be unethical . When has that ever stopped them ?

I've gone into bars and seen people sitting on stools glowing...

The original glo-fish were super ethical. They were engineered as part of an early warning system for drinking water treatment - the colour changed in the presence of pollutants. There was no plan to sell them to the general public. It wasn't mad scientists, but rather mad marketers.

You should see the glo-mice and glo-cats. It certainly could be done with humans, although for the moment, that sort of thing is regulated.

 

[Back in the fold]

I’m thinking something much more sinister like doing something to the human brain to make people stupid but not in an obvious way or to make people resistant to genetically modified foods so they’ll keep buying it . The capitalists and corporate money men need consumers and advertising isn’t making them compliant enough anymore .

 

[gwand]

In my genetic studies, I used to use an enzyme called luciferase. It is the enzyme that makes fireflies glow. We use it in genetic studies to tag a particular gene when we want to study it’s regulation. When you found a compound that activated the gene, Luciferase would brighten. When you found a compound that decreased the activity of the gene Luciferase attenuated its glow. Theoretically, I could inject it into you and make any part of your body glow. Do you wanna be the guinea pig? I was thinking of injecting Luciferase into a certain finger.

 

[Swampman]

was at the local dog groomer ( closest thing to a local fish store... they have a Glo Fish section ) and while waiting in line for feeders, the couple in front of me bought a glo green / yellow cory... I've never seen a glo cory there before, and they aren't on the display... I assume these must be the new fish to get the treatment... probably on the albino aeneus, base???

was at the local dog groomer ( closest thing to a local fish store... they have a Glo Fish section ) and while waiting in line for feeders, the couple in front of me bought a glo green / yellow cory... I've never seen a glo cory there before, and they aren't on the display... I assume these must be the new fish to get the treatment... probably on the albino aeneus, base???

Please do not buy these or any other glow fish. A fish tank is nature. Glow fish are not real. Nature did not create them.