Freshwater Glofish

[obarrera]

I'm going out there to get a ferret soon. Should I make a smugglers run?

Hell yeah you should!! I mean for the fish! lol

[Redeye]

Don't buy those poor fish

You can have a ferrets glands removed so they don't smell so bad
My lady's professor back in Denver invented some of that stuff to make animals glo, he was a wierd character...

[victortrav]

i want some of them fish... i gotta have them

[obarrera]

Why poor fish??

[Redeye]

they have been geneticlly altered or dyed, which means they remove the stress coat of the fish, dye them, then ship them, so the colors are still bright
Mortality rate is VERY high, and the ones that don't die in shipping die shortly there after, very much like "painted glass fish"

Some places won't carry them because it's unethical treatment of an animal

[victortrav]

im still not discouraged

[obarrera]

I still want some.=]

[Shells]

You can read about them at www.glofish.com. They are not dyed a protein gene is added.

Exactly how is the fluorescent protein gene added to the fish?

Every line of GloFish® fluorescent fish (i.e., GloFish® Starfire Red™ Zebra, GloFish® Electric Green™ Zebra, and GloFish® Sunburst Orange™ Zebra) starts with a single fish. The process, illustrated in this chart, begins by adding a fluorescence gene to the fish when it is a minutes-old embryo. Once the gene integrates into the genome (i.e., genetic code) of the embryo, the developing fish will be able to pass the fluorescence gene along to its offspring upon maturity. Because of this, the gene only needs to be added to one embryo; from that point forward, all subsequent fluorescent fish are the result of traditional breeding.

You can read the web site and then decide if you want to buy them.

[victortrav]

I Want Them

[obarrera]

I Want Them

Ditto

[victortrav]

who lives in yuma ill make a road trip for some of these

[obarrera]

who lives in yuma ill make a road trip for some of these

Not sure if you're beeing serious or not lol but IF true^^^ please let me know when/if you go, I want like 6 of these.

[victortrav]

im being very serious

[victortrav]

i havent forgot about these still trying to find someone in yuma

[sandiegan]

I'd be up for a few I think.

And according to the website, they're not dyed. It's basically just genetic engineering/bioengineering.