Where To Get Glofish In Phonix, Az Area?

[theotheragentm]

I wanted to pick up some Glofish. I am in the Phoenix, AZ area and I located one store through a distributor, but I have not found more. I know they may not be listed, so I was wondering if anyone else knew where to pick these up. I didn't want to run around or call arond too much before checking with the forums.

Thanks.

 

[Josiah]

I hate to tell you but they looked like dyed fish to me. Which means, they were injected with dye(painful and most die) THe one's that live through the dying process usually die in a few months after you get them. And the one's who do live the dye goes away.

 

[OohFeeshy]

I hate to tell you but they looked like dyed fish to me. Which means, they were injected with dye(painful and most die) THe one's that live through the dying process usually die in a few months after you get them. And the one's who do live the dye goes away.

*Proper* Glofish are GM, not dyed- I say proper becasue it wouldn't suprise me if there are knockoff versions dyed with food or dips.

 

[demonmagus]

they aren't dyed, I believe they are GM-ed and feel no pain from it

 

[Josiah]

Really? They look dyed. Well you learn something new everyday . I think what really threw me off was the green.

 

[sic0198]

When you say GM'd what do you mean?

 

[Themuleous]

GM i.e. they've had genes added that would otherwise not be able to be added, even through selective breeding, totally unnatural.

Is there any difference between true glofish which actually fluoresce and these pink ones, that dont seem to fluoresce in the same way but are just bright pink, or green or whatever? Or are they the same thing and the flouorescence is only seem under certain conditions?

Sam

 

[confusion]

I believe they only flouresce(sp?) when a blacklight is shined on them. The colors come from splicing in the genes from other animals, like glowing jellyfish, that are responsbile for the glowing.

These fish (as long as they are the real thing) are normal in every other way. They can reproduce and will create new glofish.
Oddly, the only place I have found them around me (atlanta, ga) is walmart, of all places.

 

[vancouver]

Green and yellow ones now too huh.. interesting... Must be fairy new.

 

[sic0198]

Why did California ban them, was people illegally releasing them into California or something? Ya know Glofish being GM'd was mentioned in Michael Crichton's newest book "Next".

All I've seen was red, green, yellow and I think orange.

 

[Opcn]

Glofishfrom Carolina biological supply.

California Banned them because disliking GM is popular in Europe, and Californians like to think that they are trendy and European. In fact California is more "American" than the deep south, that is to say it possesses all of the qualities that Europeans generally despise about the US in greater abundance than the deep south.

Orange has not come out yet.

There are knockoff Glofish, They are called Purple Danios and they are normal danios that are fed florescent dye and take it up in there tissues. My first Glofish was actually a Purple Danio, I figured it out shortly after it died.

They all Fluoresce all of the time, however under normal lighting the fluorescent nature is not as apparent as it is under black lighting, in much the same way as that sheet of white printer paper on your desk does not seem to fluoresce very much until you get it under a black light.

All glofish show a reduced fitness in the wild as compared to wild type, with the exception of the green, which shows an equal fitness with the exception of its inability to camoflage well.

Any more Q's don't hesitate to ask, I've done quite a bit of study on glofish, My avatar is a glofish, The photos Available on Glofish.com are not doctored either.