What To Get?

[PEKO]

I just recently moved. I have a 30 gallon long. Ive had Cichlids for years but gave them to a LFS before I moved. I love Cichlids just dont have a big enough tank for them. Im thinking of getting something simple. Getting a bunch of the (blue) neon Danios. I have some blue LED lights throughout the tank, thats why im going with the (blue) neon Danios. My question is what do you guys recommend to go along with them? I like the Bala sharks but everyone tells me the tank is to small for them. I like a lot of fish in my tanks. The (blue) Neon arent going to be the main fish. Im looking for something bigger and a few of them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[micko]

Never heard of blue neon danios.

Yes, bala's grow far too big for your tank. They also need to be in groups of 6 minimum.

 

[Fishy friend2]

Blue neon danios? What do you mean are you thinking of a blu glo fish it's a color morph of a danio

 

[cidgrowlight]

it's beautiful there are bule fishes with blue LED aquarium light in the tank

 

[Fishy friend2]

Did it look like these http/www.liveaquaria.com/images/categories/product/p-89958-Neon-Jumbo.jpg
From live aquaria great pic

 

[the_lock_man]

Blue neon danios? What do you mean are you thinking of a blu glo fish it's a color morph of a danio

Fishy friend is pretty much right - but Glofish are not a natural colour morph, produced by selective breeding. They are genetically engineered, and have been trademarked (and according to Wikipedia, patented as well) - I'll leave you to make your own decision on the ethics of all that.

However, the photo posted by FF is of a Neon Tetra, a completely different species, and entirely natural.

 

[Fishy friend2]

Did it look like this http/3.bp.blogspot.com/-1hcvMK9zAk0/TeQJK9Ee1vI/AAAAAAAAMGI/HNUa-z-v1QA/s1600/all+glofish.jpg
Sorry about giving you a link to a neon tetra because he said neon tetra

Great picture

 

[XeroTolerance]

Glofish are danios but genetically engineered. They breed on their own and they still have their colors so they aren't dyed, its natural.

 

[the_lock_man]

Glofish are danios but genetically engineered. They breed on their own and they still have their colors so they aren't dyed, its natural.

Not dyed, but not natural either, in my opinion.

Guppies, platys, mollies, etc., are selectively bred to get their colours. OK, so they don't look like they do in the wild, but it's still done by natural reproduction. In other words, it could potentially happen in the wild, but hasn't.

Glofish, on the other hand, have been, as you say, genetically engineered that way. No amount of natural reproduction would have produced those colours. Hence my assertion that they are not natural.

There's a line of morality of what is "right" and what is "wrong" - I believe it's been crossed with the Glofish(R).

 

[ZoddyZod]

Glofish are danios but genetically engineered. They breed on their own and they still have their colors so they aren't dyed, its natural.

it's not 'natural', they have been spliced with genes from another species to create this colour.

I believe they can reproduce, but those colours did not occur 'naturally'.

 

[XeroTolerance]

good point. What I was trying to say was they aren't like dyed fish where they are dyed and not born that way. Its painful to the dyed fish but not to the glofish.

 

[Fishy friend2]

Don't they like inject jelly into there eggs

 

[the_lock_man]

Don't they like inject jelly into there eggs

They take the eggs, and alter them at a DNA level to produce the colours. The fish are genetically blue (or whatever), like XT said they don't inject a dye. A male blue Glofish(R) and a female blue Glofish(R) will have blue Glofish(R) babies, not striped black and white.

 

[XeroTolerance]

Yep so its painless for the babies. Also to the eggs that were modified because the fish didn't even develop pain receptors yet.