Glofish

Im going to attempt a new frechwater tank as I have finally found a frech fish other then piranhas that are interesting, the biogenicly engineered glofish is red and is a mutant zebra danio, scientists took the fluorescent gene from a jelly fish and placed it in the danios GNA creating a so called "frankinfish", I want to set up a 5.5 gallon tank, my friend is going to sell me fluorescent sand and rock he got from a quarry in north jersey, im also going to put in some glow in the dark plants maybe and 6 of these fish as you can only buy 6 at a time, its $50 for the fish shipped, fisrt question is has any one ever kept these, second question is my lighting on this tank, saposidly the higher the light the more they glow during the day plus since they are literally fluorescent id like to put actinics to really make it show, im thinking one actinic and one 10,000k daytime, maybe two actinics and them at night two UV bulbs whcih will make them and the fluorescent in the rock and sand plus the glowing green plants all shine amazingly, I might put this all in the 8 gallon they sell online at liveaquaria but that would be harder to make a hood for, any ideas?
 

dragon79

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whoah

dude that would be intense....how many tanks do you come across where you'd see crazy stuff like that. If you ever pull it off, be sure to post some pics.
 
oh of cousre, yea I love stuff that glows under black lights, I wanted to add some fluorescent sand to my reef tank but was scared of affecting the ph, in FW its not to big a deal and when I learned about the glofish, well im now extreamly motivated and I found a guy to build me a acrylic tank, black sides, back and bottem with a clear font, il build a full hood on it so its like a shadow box, put the sand and rock and the fish, I might not do the plants but maybe. il use a Otocinclus Catfish for algae control as its small and heavly camo'd making it unnoticable, Cherry Fire Shrimp will be used for sand bed cleaning as they sort of match the glofish in color and the rest of them is transparent, the list is

6 glofish
1 O. Catfish
2 Cherry fire shrimp

il probably use a Penn Plax Cascade 100 Power Filter, they can handle up to 30g tank and il only have about a 6g, im probably going to use two 50/50 20w coralife screw in compacts for daytime and two black light strips at night, any one know where to buy black light strip lights that I could like wire and such, all I know of is the housed ones in spencers in the mall, sugestions?
 
ok everyone knows double ended MH needs a UV shield, what is effected by the UV rays, I need to put black (ultra violet) lights on this little experiment and might go the way as something called short wave UV's as they bring out a differnt color in the rocks, maybe a short wave and long wave combo to bring all the color out, will this effect my fish and shrimp at all, I think it maight and will probably just go by way of compact fluorescent black lights as if I was to put a UV shield on the short waves lights it would defeat the purpose as they would not work correctly, right?, I dont know if anyone would know this but its worth a shot
 

mihkaail

New Member
Hi all

Infidel, hope you know that the glofish have a shortened lifespan as well as being more sluggish and less hardy. Survival rates in LFS are much lower than normal zebras. But i think with your experience, it shouldnt be a problem.

Hope you dont think i'm putting your idea down or anything, i just wanted you to know (the combination sounds great though). Here in singapore, they cost SGD3 each (approx. USD 1.30); how much do they cost there?

Keep us updated on your tank.

Cheers
Mihkaail
 

incysor

New Member
ExiledInfidel666 said:
ok everyone knows double ended MH needs a UV shield, what is effected by the UV rays, I need to put black (ultra violet) lights on this little experiment and might go the way as something called short wave UV's as they bring out a differnt color in the rocks, maybe a short wave and long wave combo to bring all the color out, will this effect my fish and shrimp at all, I think it maight and will probably just go by way of compact fluorescent black lights as if I was to put a UV shield on the short waves lights it would defeat the purpose as they would not work correctly, right?, I dont know if anyone would know this but its worth a shot
Continuous exposure to the blacklight will likely blind them first then kill them. I'd only expose them for short periods, like if you have a party, and want to show them off, or for photos or something.

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Vafik

New Member
Well they cant be as bad as painted fish. Atleast they are breed that way and not injected with dye. Good luck and post some pics when you get it up and running.
 
yea no it would only be every once in a while at night, and if i decieded i wanted it on longer it would still jut be at night, besides its short wave so its not as dangerous, but i dont think im doing it soon, i did however put a black light on my piranha tank, il get pics up it looks amazing with the glow in the dark plants and fluorescent rocks
 

leaffish75

New Member
i know this is old but the glos fish life span has been lengthened. the idea behind them are that certain toxins in local FW cause them to glow. So the longer the life the better. They will be available in 2 new colors soon.
 

waterdog

New Member
toxins in local FW? lol where did you get that one?

They have a coral gene inserted that causes them to express the pigment.

leaffish75 said:
i know this is old but the glos fish life span has been lengthened. the idea behind them are that certain toxins in local FW cause them to glow. So the longer the life the better. They will be available in 2 new colors soon.
 

incysor

New Member
You're both right.

Scientists have been playing with zebrafish's genes for years to make them glow. Using jellyfish DNA, Coral DNA, and lighting bug DNA. These guys are not 'new' at all, just new to the aquarium industry

Here's a link to an article detailing one of the latest ideas on how to use them to test for contaminants in the water supply which is what leaffish is referring to.

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http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/aug03/161416.asp
 
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