Ethics of Transgenic Pets

[Mendel's Balls]

I want a yogurt tree!

I just want more people to vote.......a lot of views but not a lot of votes right now! Come on people voting is anonymous!!!!!!!!! I dont care what you vote for.......but if you view...vote!

[icygirl]

I just want more people to vote.......a lot of views but not a lot of votes right now! Come on people voting is anonymous!!!!!!!!! I dont care what you vote for.......but if you view...vote!

Unfortunately I think it's because it's in a much-overlooked forum that's way down in the list. I actually found it on the recent threads list on the home page...

[Mendel's Balls]

Unfortunately I think it's because it's in a much-overlooked forum that's way down in the list. I actually found it on the recent threads list on the home page...

Yea I guess that's my fault because I asked the mods to move it to General Pets rather than keep it in off-topic cafe. Blast...why do I have to try to keep things so neat and organized?

Well I guess it is good exposure for this subdivision. I try to look over at all of the sub-divisions on here....you never know what interesting things you may find.

[Mendel's Balls]

Some pretty good videos of them out there on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4HVd...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iagas...eature=related

Something called TK-1 Fish appear even more fluorescent and actually appear to be a truer "Glow in the dark" fish.....but I dont think they are available in the U.S...only in Asia right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08jf_...eature=related

[Ginevive]

I think that this definately needs to be researched and controlled. If we don't look into it in our country, and find out the pros, cons, and ins and outs, then other countries will do it. They could then be lightyears ahead of us if it Does turn out to be a beneficial technology to mankind, or worse, use this ability against us.

[Mendel's Balls]

Just got some glofish......here's a pic of them in their tank under fluorescent LEDs:




And under a blue and black lights:




(This really doesn't do justice for them.

[stangs13]

How much did they go for mendel? They would be an intresting nightlight!

[Mendel's Balls]

How much did they go for mendel?

I bought these as a kit from 1800GloFish. It comes with aquarium equipped with fluorescent, blue, & black LEDS, gravel, filters, air pump, some food and water conditioner as well as 6 Glofish. The whole kit was $64.99 w/o 2D shipping. The kit is pretty nice so far for a starter aquarium but DHL took forever to get it here. (Came very late the second day....~6:00pm)

Each glofish if bought separately in retail pet stores like Petco or Pet Supplies Plus costs anywhere from $6.99-$7.50 per fish. Non-transgenic wild-type zebrafish Danio rerio go for $0.98-$1.50 around here. As you can see the transgenic fish are much more expensive. A small 1.5 gallon aquarium like that goes for around ~$35. So I probably didn't save too much if anything by buying the kit, but it came nicely packed.

I've had the tank since Thrusday. One of the Green fish today started not looking so good. All of the others look very healthy. And are vibrantly swimming about the tank. I tested the ammonia levels and it was a bit high so I did a quick water change. I'm hoping too avoid "New Tank Syndrome" as best as I can. I still pretty new to this...but Danio are pretty good starter freshwater tropical fish. Right now in PA its warm, so I will also soon have to buy a small heater for the tank.

They would be an interesting nightlight!

Glofish like all fish need regular cycles of light and dark so you cant leave any of the lights on all night. The black light emits UV radiation which if exposed to it for extend periods of time would hurt your eyes as well as the fishes' eyes. Also the UV light may be good to kill some unwanted bacteria growth in an established tank, but nitrifying bacteria need to spread and populate themselves in a new tank and the black light left on for long might hurt this. That's the way I understand it at least.

[Mendel's Balls]

Some of the "morphs" of zebrafish can be viewed below.....

http://www.pnas.org/content/vol105/i...889800001.jpeg

Glofish are actually genetically modified (transgenic) albino zebrafish (second one down from the far left).

Reminds me of this post.

[snakemanjayd]

Or better yet pigs that will help real envirnomental problems such as large algal blooms in lakes, river, etc.....ever hear of Enviropigs?

That is the coolest thing ever.
Pigs bred for their poo.