Miss Mouse

Morning all, I found this on the practical fishkeeping site - not so great is it?!

http://andysworld.org.uk/aquablog/?postid=257

COBettaCouple

That's freaky.. talk about babies playing with loaded hand guns.. glowing neon fish.. i guess we don't have to wait for all-out nuclear war to have glowing animals now. isn't that wonderful? : :P Definitely not good when some of those get into the ecosystem.

andiuk

well... it's kinda weird... but personally, i didn't think they made for very attractive pets anyways, i can't see them "taking off" as it were!

sirdarksol

I wouldn't worry about them getting into the ecosystem. As the guy said, they are bred with a horrible weakness. They can't hide. In fact, they draw the attention of predators.
Of course, that doesn't mean that other genetically engineered fish wouldn't be harmful. Just because this one would probably die off doesn't mean we should keep playing around. They look neat (I thought so, at least), but I don't think this is a good idea for pets.
I do, however, appreciate the reason the fish were made. I had read about this awhile ago. They are trying to breed a fish that flouresces in pollution. That way, they can test water more easily. It's not perfect, because fish don't always consider the same things as us to be pollution, but it's still easier than testing for each individual thing.