Painted Angels

[Robris]

I was at my lfs today and I saw some cool really small fish, perhaps a bit bigger than their tetras, anyways they were called "painted angels". There whole body was transparent with a strip of bright colour along the top of the fish, there was fluro pink, green etc. Are these fish dyded? should I stay away or are they like that normally? If anyone knows it would be great, thanks

 

[community begginer]

i would have to say most likely dyed. but yet again i am uncertain. i hate dyed fish. what ever happened to teh natural colour?? that is the best and only sort of colouring a fish should have according to me.
community

 

[Miss Wiggle]

painted definately implies dying to me, painted glassfish are dyed.

could be glowlight danio's though which are GM modified not actually dyed

 

[Robris]

Im going with dyed, I really dont think a tropical fish can get a natural colour like that the colour is fluro, but I must say they look cool because the rest of the body is transparent

 

[Leedsboi86]

I agree with Dyed....
One of my LFS are well known for dyein fish yet nothing is done about it >.<

There worse habbit now is getting light coloured Bettas(Like white n cream) and tryin to colour them... I never go in there anymore >.<

 

[Miss Wiggle]

I agree with Dyed....
One of my LFS are well known for dyein fish yet nothing is done about it >.<

There worse habbit now is getting light coloured Bettas(Like white n cream) and tryin to colour them... I never go in there anymore >.<

which lfs? just ask cos your local

 

[OohFeeshy]

could be glowlight danio's though which are GM modified not actually dyed

Glowlight danios are naturally occuring fish that look similar to glowlight tetras. Glo-fish are the GM zebra danios. Big difference And Glo-fish aren't transparent with an (injected) line of colour along the spine either.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

could be glowlight danio's though which are GM modified not actually dyed

Glowlight danios are naturally occuring fish that look similar to glowlight tetras. Glo-fish are the GM zebra danios. Big difference And Glo-fish aren't transparent with an (injected) line of colour along the spine either.

quite right oohfeesy, i'm being a div

 

[ArauraDiscus]

could be glowlight danio's though which are GM modified not actually dyed

Glowlight danios are naturally occuring fish that look similar to glowlight tetras. Glo-fish are the GM zebra danios. Big difference And Glo-fish aren't transparent with an (injected) line of colour along the spine either.

Actually glo light tetra and glo-fish don't look a like in any way. Glo light tetra as far as I know are a small black skirt looking tetra with a red line along their back. I believe it is natural. And the glo-fish are completely flourescent and in multiple colors. Glo-fish are zebra danios by the way, not tetras, shaped different and look different.

 

[Lorna]

Those Glofish look vile. I don't know why anybody would want anything so grossly artificial in their tank. I think having those kind of fish defies the purpose of fish keeping.

 

[Aphotic Phoenix]

hose Glofish look vile. I don't know why anybody would want anything so grossly artificial in their tank.

After I found out why Glofish were created in the first place (look it up on Wikipedia.org if you are curious), I kinda forgave them for being so horribly tacky looking. Now I want to build a custom species only Glofish tank with a futuristic theme.

 

[Lorna]

Well I think putting these fish into polluted waters to test the quality is worse. I'm sorry but I disagree with using other animals genes to change or create another. Its playing God

 

[OohFeeshy]

Actually glo light tetra and glo-fish don't look a like in any way. Glo light tetra as far as I know are a small black skirt looking tetra with a red line along their back. I believe it is natural. And the glo-fish are completely flourescent and in multiple colors. Glo-fish are zebra danios by the way, not tetras, shaped different and look different.

Actually, if you read the post properly I was talking about two types of danio- glowlight

and glo-fish

. First is the naturally occuring one that does indeed have an orange stripey bit similar to that of a glowlight tetra

. And the second is GM.

Its playing God

T'isn't. It's science Perfectly harmless to the fish, useful practice with gene splicing for applications where it may come in handy.

 

[Lorna]

Actually glo light tetra and glo-fish don't look a like in any way. Glo light tetra as far as I know are a small black skirt looking tetra with a red line along their back. I believe it is natural. And the glo-fish are completely flourescent and in multiple colors. Glo-fish are zebra danios by the way, not tetras, shaped different and look different.

Actually, if you read the post properly I was talking about two types of danio- glowlight

and glo-fish

. First is the naturally occuring one that does indeed have an orange stripey bit similar to that of a glowlight tetra

. And the second is GM.

Its playing God

T'isn't. It's science Perfectly harmless to the fish, useful practice with gene splicing for applications where it may come in handy.

Problems have occured now when countries have introduced new species to control others that are causing problems. The ecosystem in that area couldn't handle the new species. GM is the same in creating new species that nature hasn't accounted for. Bad news.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Problems have occured now when countries have introduced new species to control others that are causing problems. The ecosystem in that area couldn't handle the new species.

If you look around, you'll find these aren't designed for natural ecosystems, and even if they did get into them, they're unlikely to cause any trouble. They're tropical fish, so that rules out many areas. They're bright red, which is a really, really poor survival technique. And they'd actually have to have a large population introduced into the wild to have any chance of reproducing (danio eggs/fry are very easy to predate on), or find something similar enough to hybridise with. Of which the offspring would also be glowling, and so get eaten.