I'll back you up. I've seen a dark Pristella maxillaris type 'glofished' in local stores, and it caught my eye. Pristella tetras are really easy to breed, so I have produced some every now and then. I had trouble finding ones that weren't human modified, and I prefer the wild fish over the linebred things and the glofish. If I want them, I have to breed them.We may think of glofish as unattractive, but that's because we know what they are.
Glofish on the other hand live perfectly normal lives so whilst I wouldn't have them, I can see the attraction and I do think dome look rather nice (there - I've said it!)
But easy to breed with silvery flanks makes them ideal for the pet trade - cheap to produce and with no natural flank pigments to get in the way of the inserted genes.
There's no nuance with the glofish, and in general, the jellyfish genes make them all the same colours no matter whether it's tetras, barbs or anything else the industry invests in. I do find the sameness and lack of patterning dull - plus they don't tell me any stories the way a fish with colours from a long evolutionary history might. But at a first glance, the reddish Pristellas made me look.
I find widow tetras, the usual glofish offering to be ugly fish in any form - one of my least liked tetras. You can turn them pale green, pink or yellow and they still look like cheap candies. The danios are better looking. But none will get into my tanks - wild danios have them beat hands down (to me).
