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Glow in the dark fish for your aquarium




Topic started on 22-11-2003 @ 02:12 PM by MountainStar



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little tropical fish that glows fluorescent red will be the first genetically engineered pet, a Texas-based company has said.
The zebra fish were originally developed to detect environmental toxins, but Alan Blake and colleagues at Yorktown Technologies, L.P. licensed them to sell as pets.


www.reuters.co.uk...

This should be interesting. I'll bet they sell a lot of them.
Wonders how hardy they will be? It seems like every time they mess with mother nature......something goes wrong



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reply posted on 22-11-2003 @ 06:45 PM by Scarface


Genetical engineering not been used for any good use, start of a trend perhaps ? But still it looks kinda cool



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reply posted on 22-11-2003 @ 06:51 PM by Bangin


Hmm, I'm not so sure that I'm down with that.

I have 4 zebra danios in my 55-gallon. They're really cool fish! I've only had the aquarium for a few months. I love it! I have a total of 5 gouramis, 4 zebra danios and 4 different kinds of snails. I'm looking into getting better lighting so that I can have a planted tank. I'll eventually post a pic or two.



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reply posted on 22-11-2003 @ 08:18 PM by THENEO


Hope these fish don't have a genetic flaw where they grow enormously or eat everything else or...

just kidding but who knows?

fish are cool though, always wondered it they knew they were in an aquarium though?



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reply posted on 22-11-2003 @ 08:56 PM by sirCyco


I will buy one if they ever start selling them...sounds cool..I wonder how much they will cost..probably alot.



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reply posted on 22-11-2003 @ 09:24 PM by HowardRoark


My bet is that they will sell, but not all that well.

Serious aquarium people won't touch them. Aquariums are too expensive a hobby not to be serious about.



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reply posted on 22-11-2003 @ 09:32 PM by sirCyco


I wonder if they can make some glow in the dark plants that you could put in your fish tank..



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reply posted on 22-11-2003 @ 11:33 PM by MountainStar



I will buy one if they ever start selling them...sounds cool..I wonder how much they will cost..probably alot.



SirCyco I believe they will only cost $5.00 per fish. Not bad if they don't belly-up right away.



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reply posted on 22-11-2003 @ 11:41 PM by sirCyco


$5.00!! damn thats great..Im gonna get a whole school of them..I just wish they would make different kinds of glowing fish....some piranhas would be cool..



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reply posted on 23-11-2003 @ 03:03 PM by parrhesia


That's really interesting, too bad there isn't a photo of the fish. I love fish, I've got 6 pirhanas, and used to have a lot of really beautiful tropical fish.



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reply posted on 23-11-2003 @ 03:10 PM by jetsetter


Pretty cool. I will take 100.



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reply posted on 24-11-2003 @ 03:26 PM by Endless


Here's a couple links I found to cool pics of the glow-fish. The first link says the scientist that engineered them made a red/green one....Christmas presents anyone?

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reply posted on 24-11-2003 @ 03:35 PM by NotTooHappy


I dunno, genetically altered fish as pets? It won't take too long for them to learn to breath air, grow giant and start smashing cities. I mean, do we really need to screw with nature that much?



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