Regular Member kristysweets Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 I don't have a pic of it, but I keep seeing these cuties at nnnnnn, but I don't see a card for them so I don't know what they are and I'm hoping someone knows. They are small, bright pink body with little white lines across their body, and I think their fins are white too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Sushi67 Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 Albino Paradise fish? Albino Oscar? Are the stripes horizontal or vertical? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Man Yu Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 Is this the fish you're thinking of? http://www.glofish.com/photos.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member kristysweets Posted December 9, 2006 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 no that's not them, but thanks. The lines are horizontal. They are small fish, of course I'm sure they are babies, I think they are about the size of a neon tetra and their bodies are really pink, you can hardly see the white lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Man Yu Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 check the glofish link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member kristysweets Posted December 9, 2006 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 yes Man Yu, that's them! they are not painted fish, are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member kristysweets Posted December 9, 2006 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 never mind, I'm reading the rest of the site now, thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Man Yu Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 GloFish aren't painted fish... they are simply zebra danios whose DNA have been supplemented with a gene from a coral that gives them bright fluorescent colors in their scale's iridocytes. Viewed under a black light or a Reef lightbulb, they actually glow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member kristysweets Posted December 9, 2006 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 They did remind me of danios too. I think they are very pretty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Sushi67 Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 Her description did match that of danios but I had no clue they came in those colors! In my fish encyclopedia the Zebra Danio sounded like what she was talking about but the picture in the book was a green one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Man Yu Posted December 9, 2006 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2006 GloFish only recently became commercially available on the market. There's been a lot of furor over them and their sale has been banned in some countries due to the outcry of animal rights activists and some overzealous environmentalists that the practice of transgenics in producing ornamental fish is cruel and inhumane and that the possible release of these danios in the wild constitutes a serious ecological threat... which is silly because GloFish are only as dangerous as regular Danios. (they can't even survive in temperate climates) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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