Glofish?

[Chris.d514]

I just bought some painted glass fish at my wife's request. I later read online that they do not last long as they are injected with dye. She also liked the glofish and I read that they are genetically modified instead of dyed. Has anyone had success with them or difficulty?

[eklikewhoa]

Glofish are fine they now have glow tetras they are just as healthy as normal fish

[mnemenoi]

Dyed Glass fish are tough even if they are kept in their preferred water parameters. They are really a very hard water species and prolonged enviroments outside those parameters usually lead to an affliction similar looking to ich, which is lymphocitis. With care and attention they will eventually lose their injected dye and revert back to normal coloration in a year or two, but it seems to aggrevate their already finicky health. You can occasionally get non colored forms and even rarer types if you hunt hard enough. The hump headed glassfish can be very cool in a small school.

The Glofish is truly a modified organism and will maintain its colors, but their are very gorgeous fish that are similar and not modified. The Glowlight Danio (Danio Choprae) have tremendious coloration and are otherwise very similar in requirements. In smaller tanks one can keep Emerald Dwarf Rasbora or Celestial Pearl Danios (both are actually danios with recent changes to their families). They do prefer schools and will shine, especially some of the recent imports from Myanmar and Burma that are being made available. Fish Gallery usually has a few different species and they can be found on aquabid fairly regularly.

[mnemenoi]

Perhaps on of the better sites detailing the Danio/Devario family on the web with a trove of information can be found here. I have often found it to be very well maintained on recent imports and even species that are not officially recognized as of yet.

[eklikewhoa]

Glowlights don't get the trippy colors under blacklight like the glofish do though! LoL

[aquabee]

Glofish are fine they now have glow tetras they are just as healthy as normal fish

Based on the pictures from his tank thread, I think he's talking about painted glass tetras, not glofish or glowlight tetras or glowlight danios.

[mnemenoi]

Based on the pictures from his tank thread, I think he's talking about painted glass tetras, not glofish or glowlight tetras or glowlight danios.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

translated to "What's in a name? That which we call a glowfish
By any other name would luminesce just as bright."

[Chris.d514]

I actually wanted some celestial pearls but they were not available at Houston aquatics when I went and my wife wanted fish right then. The emerald dwarfs would be awesome if I could find then.

[mnemenoi]

I know mail order might look a bit sketchy, but most are run well and you can certainly get what you are wanting especially with oddball or specific species. I visit aquabid regularly and they usually have all of those listed under Cyprinids. Another mail order store I use is Bob's Tropical Plants and he stocks shrimp, inverts, and fish as well as quite an assortment of very nice plants. I have never had any issues with his shipments and they have always arrived alive. I have heard that Frank's Aquarium does mostly Nano stuff and is very good, but have never actually bought from him before. Have been tossing around ordering some rasbora or danios, just need to get some aquarium shuffling done first.