Whoa, let me explain myself here. I know what a glofish is, I read the article and got the sales pitch by those who developed them. All I was trying to say is that they are the next generation of "manmade" varieties of fish, like the painted Chandas, dyed cories, flowerhorns, Orandas and Ranchus, fancy livebearers and albino/ veil tailed stuff that has been to a certain degree common fare in our LFS since we all started this hobby. "Genetic abberation" was a general statement and was my attempt at sarcasm... sorry.
Hundreds of years ago, The Chinese selectively bred goldfish and created a wide array of different shapes and colors. Many of these grossly different from its original form. In the 50's, Hawaii was world renowned for a number of Hobbyists creating new forms and color patterns on swordtails, variatus, and platies by inbreeding and hybridizing the three to "jump" traits from one species to another. Then you have Designer discus and angels, halfmoon and crowntail bettas, balloon rams and a whole
[email protected] load of man made fish of shapes and sizes. It seems we are "creating" something new as fast as we force something into extinction (a sarcastic generalized statement :lol: ) So what I am just trying to get at, is that I see glofish, a transgenic mutation (is that right?) in my book are no different than a gold veiled angel or a painted chanda. Mother nature didn't think up that one, we did. They have their place in the hobby. These fish are for people who have never had a fish before and want something easy to keep, colorful, and cheap. I for one would never keep anything manmade, but hey if you think they are hot, knock yourself out. Better in your tank than to die a slow death in the LFS!
On another note, some hobbyists have been working with these glofish and have already gotten the pink on veiled, gold, and leopard Danios. The leopard glofish are actually kinda nice- pink base with dark blue spots... It seems that the gene is a simple recessive trait like veiled/ long finnage.