glow fish?

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jweb1369
 
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glow fish?

by jweb1369

the recently genetically engineered fish that so called glows...does anyone have these? do they actually glow in the dark? if so, i would love to see night time pics.


gumbii
 
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by gumbii

they are used in water plants... when the amonia or toxic metals are present they will glow a bit... so they treat the water again if they see them glowing...

there's a website somewhere... i'm too lazy to search...

www.glofish.com or www.glowfish.com i don't member...


jweb1369
 
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by jweb1369

oh i think they only glow under black light or something. that just adds more expense to them hahahaha.


gumbii
 
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by gumbii

nope...

alot of fish glow in the black light...


Nikisfish
 
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by Nikisfish

I just saw some glow fish at Walmart today. They were bright and appeared to be glowing with absolutely no light (they had the lights of in the tanks for some reason). There were pretty small, but I thought they were cool. Just thought i'd mention it.


gumbii
 
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by gumbii

were they glolight tetras..? or glow fish danio's...???


jweb1369
 
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by jweb1369

the ones i saw where tetras... the reason why i asked i think it would be cool to setup my 10 gallon and put it in a bedroom so you could look at them in bed.


Nikisfish
 
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by Nikisfish

I'm not sure if they were tetras or danios. Walmart just called them glowfish.....lol.


Mike0372983
 
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by Mike0372983

I have glowlight tetras, mine glow during the day when the light isnt on, but at night I havent really seen them glow, they are preety fun to watch becasue the school together. I would have got more than 6 for my tank but was the limit per customer...


faile486
 
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by faile486

Glowlight tetras and glofish aren't really the same thing ^^; Glofish are genetically engineered, and come in flourecent red, orange and yellow. A lot of states have banned them. They don't glow in the dark, but most of the websites on them say they do glow under a blacklight.

http://www.glofish.com/ is their homepage. I have no personal experience with them, because they're banned in California.

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