Pink Danios?

[TammyLiz]

Very true. If private parties can breed them, they can undercut the prices of the "manufacturers" until there is enough of a supply of them that they can no longer be sold at the original high price.

Its the same way with a new species introduced into the trade from the wild--they are very expensive until someone starts breeding them which brings the price down. However, collecting from the wild still has the advantage of sturdier stock/larger gene pool with certain species, so it has an advantage over the danios, which are most likely going to be completely the same no matter who breeds them, unless the added color gene stops breeding true after a few generations.

 

[Fish_Girl]

im horrified that i may of purchased dyed fish i dont know as much about fish as most of the members on this forum, but i just wished id have asked in the fish shop-though i doubt they would have been honest with me. il try and get a piccie now of them-the last time i got pictures on my camera they wernt very good quality, and these guys are quite small at the moment so it will probably be even worse. il give it a shot anyway.

Kilultagh: i dont suppose you know of any other decent fish shops around birmingham do you? after this, and speaking with one of the workers yesterday and them not knowing what an amano shrimp is think id like to try somewhere else!! i also remember asking a worker not too long ago, if any fish could be kept safely with fire belly newts(as they had a few different types in with them!) and being told that you shouldnt keep any with them-why do it in the shop then?

 

[demonmagus]

Firstly I don't think you should keep fish with fire bellys, but I'm not too sure


also, go to Shirley aquatics, I don't live in Birmingham but have visited this place and it is awesome, it really is soooooooooo good

 

[ulster exile]

Firstly I don't think you should keep fish with fire bellys, but I'm not too sure


also, go to Shirley aquatics, I don't live in Birmingham but have visited this place and it is awesome, it really is soooooooooo good

Fish girl - I've pm'd you re: shops in Brum.

As for Shirley....well, it's big, I'll give you that. But the staff and the Victor Meldrew grumpy owner need to learn about customer service!

 

[starrynightxxi]

Don't stress too much over if your fish are dyed. You didn't know, and most searches for Glofish probably wouldn't have brought up that information. Certainly the shop didn't help you - and it's possible that they aren't even aware themselves. I wonder if they are on PFK's list of stores that don't sell dyed fish...

 

[vancouver]

I doubt they're dyed... never seen dyed danios before.

I don't think they'd be trying to immitate glofish either by dyeing them..

One of mine already died.. Both looked quite sick but for 50 cents I figured who cares, maybe I can save them.

The surviving one is sorta pinky-red I guess... not a dull pink, but not a vibrant red.. I'll get some pics in a few days when my other computer is fixed.

It's small too.. not even an inch long.

 

[starrynightxxi]

Why wouldn't they try to imitate Glofish by dying danios? If there's a market for something, some hack will create a fake and sell it as the real thing. And uninformed people will buy it believing it to be the real thing. You say you've never seen a dyed danio, but besides the fact that that doesn't mean they aren't out there, it also simply means that there wasn't a market for pink danios until people started hearing about the Glofish.

As for yours, I can't say. I don't know whether it's legal selling them in canada or not, but in the UK, it isn't. It is not, however, illegal for those stores to sell dyed fish, a quicker, cheaper, more profitable way to give people what they want (how are they going to know, right?).

 

[vancouver]

I would think glofish would be easy enough to get that dyeing wouldn't be needed.. then again I guess we really don't know how easily attainable they are to suppliers.. or whoever dyes fish..

I guess the only way to know if they're dyed is to wait 6 months and see if the fish is still pink/red.

 

[tanyauk]

hi! I have pink danios as well, and I wasn't sure if they are glo fish or coloured, so I checked with the black light and they DO glow, bright fluorescent pink. and they look stunning, so they are not chemically diyed!?

 

[vancouver]

I believe they inject some sort of hormone into the eggs... and it is passed from generation to generation, unlike if a fish was dyed.

My little guy is still alive.. I'm pretty surprised actually.. it's kinda bent and messed up looking, but I'm tryin to keep it alive.