Red Zebra Danios!!!!!!!

[Ferris]

I saw some red zebra danios being sold in my LFS. I have never heard of these before, does anyone know if they have been dyed or are they a natural morph? They were being sold for £3.95 each compared to 85p for normal zebra danios!

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

id say they were dyed..ive never heard of them

 

[Ferris]

Thats what i thought, its a Fish shop I've not been to before and I don't think I'll be going again.

 

[karrihug]

are they kinda flourescent pink? they are genetically altered with jelly fish dna to have that look. supposed to be just as good as regular, but they are much more delicate. they were "made" for some kind of research project or something.

 

[Ferris]

Your description is spot on, no wonder they were £3.95!

 

[The-Wolf]

Genetically altered.
Please do not support this pratice & urge your lfs to stop selling them.

 

[Teelie]

Unlike dyeing, this isn't harmful to the fish at all. It's actually got legitmate uses and part of the sales are meant to go to funding scientific research on pollution. Personally, I wouldn't buy any because of their price more than the "terrible" things done to the fish which aren't terrible at all, just tacky.

Of course there are those who don't understand it at all and find any kind of alteration of fish "wrong" while conveniently ignoring the fact their Goldfish, Cichlids and Betta (among others) are all genetically engineered in a different way via selective breeding. Ever see what some of these fish look like naturally? Quite ugly to most.

http/glofish.com

 

[The-Wolf]

Unlike dyeing, this isn't harmful to the fish at all. It's actually got legitmate uses and part of the sales are meant to go to funding scientific research on pollution. Personally, I wouldn't buy any because of their price more than the "terrible" things done to the fish which aren't terrible at all, just tacky.

Of course there are those who don't understand it at all and find any kind of alteration of fish "wrong" while conveniently ignoring the fact their Goldfish, Cichlids and Betta (among others) are all genetically engineered in a different way via selective breeding. Ever see what some of these fish look like naturally? Quite ugly to most.

http/glofish.com

Point taken

I just don't understand geneticaly manipulating animals in a lab,
whereas selective breeding is o.k. in my opinion as the process itself is not invasive
although the results can be detrimental.
look at some cat and dog breeds that have allsorts of problems with breathing, limbs etc.

 

[Teelie]

I do agree on when the breeding goes too far and causes physical dangersto the animals but these genetically engineered fish aren't harmed by it.

I think the way some people breed super endowed Guppies is wrong and many of the crossbreeds of fish can be just as bad as dyeing the fish and in some cases they get dyed as well. If the fish isn't harmed in the process then IMO it's okay to do, even if I don't care for the result myself.

 

[Opcn]

The fish are only slightly more fragile than normals (mine is like a really strong and great fish though I so want her to breed again; lost the first batch to a jumping Z danio) i dont think anything is as bad as dyeing fish although line breeding is very very bad. The glofish are only really good if they dont have the blue stripes thats why I'm trying to breed mine with albinos.

 

[Max]

Genetically altered.
Please do not support this pratice & urge your lfs to stop selling them.

im going with this one they are not hurt in anyway, also they look cool

 

[totalbolshevik]

I saw some red zebra danios being sold in my LFS. I have never heard of these before, does anyone know if they have been dyed or are they a natural morph? They were being sold for £3.95 each compared to 85p for normal zebra danios!

I don't know about just red danios... But my LFS had some "glowing" red danios when I last went there, they supposedly had jellyfish DNA in them. Looked pretty tacky. Playing God generally isn't a good thing even if it isn't harmful to the fish