Wal mart had the hot pink ones and I bought a small school--7--for my 10 gal tank. They are sooo pretty I just love them. Only I noticed some of them have ich now so I got a plastic tub and a filter for a quarantine tank. Hopefully I can get rid of the ich soon. I have salt in there now and the glofish don't seem to mind it.


http://www.glofish.com/photos.asp

Um, are those painted fish? If so, I'd suggest you google it, they have a really sad and suffering past.

EDIT: I just read the rest of the site, I guess they're genetically engineered. Kind of reminds me of http://nextgencode.com/ .

congrats!!


yup, its all genetics.

ohhh you're soo lucky!! I wanted to get those ever since I went on an ap biology trip to stony brook. They are just the coolest things~

** just incase you wanted to know how they came to be..


Scientist put jellyfish's glowing gene into the fish to make it glow. They actually wanted the fish to only glow when there was a high presence of ammonia in the water. But the experiment fail and now they just glow! haha.

are these the glofish that glows only with UV light or are they the ones that just glows?

My sister works for Genentech, I'm guessing they've by-passed the fish since they've cloned cats already

Bunch of cloned fishies swimming around....

they dont glow to well in light. But once you turn it off, they glow, but only for a little while. if you have a uv light, they will always glow when the light is on.

Talk about neon tetras!

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/arabpaso/det...scd.jpg&.src=ph

Here's a link to a pic of them. They are slightly metallic looking in normal light but I can't say it glows. I don't have a uv light so don't know if that makes them glow or not. But the color is quite vibrant and neon--very pretty.

Hurry and get a black light so we can see the glow!

Are they by themselves in a 10? They're danios, so they enjoy their extra swim space.

They are in with 1 platy and 3 cories right now in the quarantine tub and all get along great. I'll be doing some rearranging with fish from my other tank once they are free of ich. So, not sure what they'll be with in the end. By the way I only have 6 glofish now--I think the melafix I put in earlier was too much for him.

Not to get on a soapbox, but......
Isn't it bad enough we keep goldfish with a mutated gene (orandas, lionheads, celestials, bubbleyes,etc) but fish that have been injected with jellyfish DNA? Come on, they be cool to look at, but so is a car wreck! I think there are plenty of beautiful naturally occuring fish that we can avoid the unethical treatment of danios, or blood parrot fish or painted glassfish, or who knows what else. As conscientous fishkeepers, we should not support these practices, leave the mutations to Mother Nature and nuclear power plants.


There, I'll climb down now.

urm... only the first generation of Glofish were ever injected with the coelenterate DNA (and only as fertilized egg cells, not fish). Every succeeding generation since the F1 offspring were simply born carrying the gene already.

As for the subject of painted glassfish and blood parrots, I do agree with you, however.

If you keep goldfish then yes, you are in a sense keeping genetically mutated fish. We got into a discussion awhile back on another board on the ethics of keeping purposely mutated fish. If you're going to get onto that though then you really need to extend it to other fish and all mutated animals–just look at the designer marbled angelfish, pugs, Siamese and Himalayan cats… the list goes on. These species end up with a lot of health defects as a result of specialized breeding.

I'm not getting on a soapbox or anything but if you are against one then it's hypocritical to not be against another.

On that note, I am in California so have never been able to see the Glofish. I find them really interesting though, especially for the fact that they were originally created to warn of water pollution. At least they were created for something useful.

As for making them glow, change your lighting and get an actinic and a white compact flourescent bulb, or just an actinic blue. It's what we use in saltwater to really bring out the awesome colors and flourescence of our saltwater tanks.