Pink Danio?

[Pleccy]

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[paulypaul182]

They were engineered to test waters for pollution. They would glow if certain toxins were in the water. Genetically modified animals are pretty similar to selectively bred ones. Its just that you skip all the steps in between and you end up with the result in probably 1/1000th the time.

Edit: One dead fish at a fish store is actually pretty good. Fish stores always have about 5-20 losses a day(depending on the size of the store), but its the really good fish stores that take them out constantly so nobody sees them.

Its a catch 22 as a fish keeper. If you go for the wild caught then the fish go through all the stress of the capture and the haulage just to be stuck in a glass cell or go for the captive bred and risk all the unnatural selctive breeding. I guess this happens with all "pets". Dogs are a massive example of selective bred pets. So many dogs are put to sleep just because they havent got the right markings or right stature. It makes me wonder if Im right to keep any animals

Edit: One dead fish at a fish store is actually pretty good. Fish stores always have about 5-20 losses a day(depending on the size of the store), but its the really good fish stores that take them out constantly so nobody sees them.

that was one tank out of about 50 i observed. Ive been inb there when there have been numerous fish in one tank dead. Once, there were 5 neons dead and near enough under the gravel in one tank. One fish shop I went to once even had a crayfish floating upside down in one tank

 

[fifefish]

They were engineered to test waters for pollution. They would glow if certain toxins were in the water. Genetically modified animals are pretty similar to selectively bred ones. Its just that you skip all the steps in between and you end up with the result in probably 1/1000th the time.

Edit: One dead fish at a fish store is actually pretty good. Fish stores always have about 5-20 losses a day(depending on the size of the store), but its the really good fish stores that take them out constantly so nobody sees them.

what sort of crap store do you shop at..i shop at ultimate aquatics and ive asked them about how many they lose per week and they said about 10... or less

 

[three-fingers]

Of course they would say that, it's rubbish though .

 

[fifefish]

spose lol..
but they do quarantine there finish unlike most..

 

[nosoup4you]

When I worked at a fish store, we cleaned out the dead fish at least 3 times a day and there were always more than 10-20 at each cleaning (not including the feeder tanks). Of course we had nearly 100 tanks...I suppose it depends on the size of the shop.

 

[paulypaul182]

When I worked at a fish store, we cleaned out the dead fish at least 3 times a day and there were always more than 10-20 at each cleaning (not including the feeder tanks). Of course we had nearly 100 tanks...I suppose it depends on the size of the shop.

Unfortunatly, that fish store is a dying breed. Ive seen fish on sale in established shops that shouldnt even be on sale like iradiscent sharks. ive even been offered clawed frogs saying they were ADFs, even after I argued the fact that their frogs on no webbing on their hands!!

 

[drobbyb]

spose lol..
but they do quarantine there finish unlike most..

I wish that the shops here would quarantine first....

 

[The-Wolf]

erm pink danios, 2 pages and no one has mentioned pearl danio Danio albolineatus
or rose danio Danio rosecus

 

[Nick16]

Im thinking they were glofish because they were really bright pink fish.

I don't think they are dyed, they will most likely be the genetically modified ones which are illegal in this country.

The big fish would be dyed though, wich is legal here..

Ive been hunting around for the post where someone was really chuffed with the fish that they had purchased only to be told it was dyed but I cant find it. It was definately that fish. It was 8 to 10 inches and very bulky. Im starting to reconsider my LFS. In one tank, there was a ghost shrimp eating a dead penguin tetra. The assistant told me that the penguin had jumped in that tank and was no doubt taken by a ghost shrimp and killed by it. This is absoloue rubbish. I have four ghost shrimp in my tank and also have harlequins that are under an inch with no losses at all. The harlequin regulary pass by a rock that shrimp often hang out on. Why do SOME LFS workers talk utter rubbish? If they arent sure then they should ask someone who knows. Fish arent cheap, yet they complain when we take dead fish back.

the post is here mate. HERE it was probably a parrot fish you saw like in this post (see link) i cant help you on the 'Danio' thing tho.

 

[paulypaul182]

Im thinking they were glofish because they were really bright pink fish.

I don't think they are dyed, they will most likely be the genetically modified ones which are illegal in this country.

The big fish would be dyed though, wich is legal here..

Ive been hunting around for the post where someone was really chuffed with the fish that they had purchased only to be told it was dyed but I cant find it. It was definately that fish. It was 8 to 10 inches and very bulky. Im starting to reconsider my LFS. In one tank, there was a ghost shrimp eating a dead penguin tetra. The assistant told me that the penguin had jumped in that tank and was no doubt taken by a ghost shrimp and killed by it. This is absoloue rubbish. I have four ghost shrimp in my tank and also have harlequins that are under an inch with no losses at all. The harlequin regulary pass by a rock that shrimp often hang out on. Why do SOME LFS workers talk utter rubbish? If they arent sure then they should ask someone who knows. Fish arent cheap, yet they complain when we take dead fish back.

the post is here mate. HERE it was probably a parrot fish you saw like in this post (see link) i cant help you on the 'Danio' thing tho.

Nah mate, the fish was enourmous compared to that. I wish I took a picture now.

I wish that the shops here would quarantine first....

Most dont. If you ring a shop and ask for a fish but they dont have it, they usually tell you to come in the day after they get their stock in. I know my LFS will sell you a fish the day after they get it into their shop

 

[Dorkhedeos]

They were engineered to test waters for pollution. They would glow if certain toxins were in the water. Genetically modified animals are pretty similar to selectively bred ones. Its just that you skip all the steps in between and you end up with the result in probably 1/1000th the time.

Edit: One dead fish at a fish store is actually pretty good. Fish stores always have about 5-20 losses a day(depending on the size of the store), but its the really good fish stores that take them out constantly so nobody sees them.

what sort of crap store do you shop at..i shop at ultimate aquatics and ive asked them about how many they lose per week and they said about 10... or less

When I worked at a fish store, we were told to tell customers we only a few lost cardinals and neons each week. That is pretty close to impossible considering the store had over 100 tanks and over 1000 fish. If they asked what happened to what happened to a specific fish, we would always say it was sold. Im pretty sure all fish stores do this, because saying your store has dead fish everyday makes customers think you have unhealthy fish.

 

[PRW1988]

They are dyed. They're also known as glowlight danios. Illegal in many states/countrys.

Do you mean a glofish? Ive read that these are the dyed ones [URL="http/www.glofish.com/"]http/www.glofish.com/[/URL]

Yes thank you, sorry was a little hopped up on meds when I posted that. Food poisioning

 

[OohFeeshy]

I think screwing around with an animal so it looks pleasing to the eye is sick! Dyed, GM'd or tattooed is just plain wrong in my eyes.
The thing is, alot of the fish we own have been tampered with in some way

It's not like Glofish were modified to 'look pretty'. Zebra danios are on of the fundamental tools for geneticists (apart from fruitflies), and are very important in developing new drugs and various other things (e.g, http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/...m.php?news=1583 ). As previously mentioned, I believe the original trait was added as a way of showing levels of pollutants in water- perhaps not overtly ethical, but it could have uses in various third world countries with unsafe drinking water, even nearer home where industries shove waste into the water system. Yes, it was exploited for the aquatics trade- but so what? People hear the words 'GM' and get out their pitchforks without actually understanding anything about it. From the New York Times-

It is no secret that the public's understanding of science, and genetics in particular, is low. For example, in a telephone survey of 1,200 Americans released last October by the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers University, 43 percent thought, incorrectly, that ordinary tomatoes did not contain genes, while genetically modified tomatoes did. One-third thought, again incorrectly, that eating genetically modified fruit would change their own genes.

Frankly, what would you rather have? A normal zebra danio that, somewhere in its past, had the 'glowing' gene put into it's genome, and while a different colour is still a perfectly normal, healthy fish, or what you see everywhere- fish inbred for decades specifically so they 'look pretty', rendering them weak, sickly, and so far removed from their wild counterparts that they may as well be a different species?