Now this is an exotic pet....

[le patron]

thats horrible.. i fear that our world is going to be over taken by amazing technology and harm not only living things, but other important things we need for survival

i couldnt agree with you more

 

[Cohazard]

The one I bought had one strip of colour, it was bright but not glow in the dark (sorry for the confusion - my wording isn't all that great). These were injected, no?

Oh yeah those are also known here in the states as 'painted glass fish'.

Dye is injected in the spine, and sometimes the belly. Cruel.

 

[andyjs]

Oh yeah those are also known here in the states as 'painted glass fish'.

Dye is injected in the spine, and sometimes the belly. Cruel.

Yep, there are many of those of different species-"mixed fruit tetras", "painted glass fish", painted parrots, etc. These are either injected or acid dipped and dyed (and I've heard have over an 80% die-off rate before they even reach stores).

Glo-fish on the other hand are literally the same technology as these mice. They weren't originally created for the money. It was originally for a water quality monitoring application. Zebra danios were good for a "canary-in-a-coal-mine" indicator for water quality in areas, then by making them florescent, it made them much easier to monitor in murky water storage canals. Then they figured out, if they made them different colors and sold them, they could make money, which I'm hoping is at least partly helping to fund further genetic research...

 

[coura]

Yep, there are many of those of different species-"mixed fruit tetras", "painted glass fish", painted parrots, etc. These are either injected or acid dipped and dyed (and I've heard have over an 80% die-off rate before they even reach stores).

Glo-fish on the other hand are literally the same technology as these mice. They weren't originally created for the money. It was originally for a water quality monitoring application. Zebra danios were good for a "canary-in-a-coal-mine" indicator for water quality in areas, then by making them florescent, it made them much easier to monitor in murky water storage canals. Then they figured out, if they made them different colors and sold them, they could make money, which I'm hoping is at least partly helping to fund further genetic research...

Here we go You are completly rigth In the first case its like you getting a tatoo, and your children obviously aint gona born tatooed. In the second case the animals were geneticly altered to have thouse caracteristics ,it makes now part of their genom and their fry will inherit it! This mice belong to second case! However this guys will probably spay theirs before selling them or say to the people that buy them that they cant breed their mice, as like glow fish this guys are patented. I dont have trobble with this guys Its just one more way people have found to alter organims and to make some big bucks out of it! It doesant seem to bother the animals, fancy goldfish are way worse and if someone is dum enough to purchase for big bucks what it is by all means a mouse let them do it!

 

[Jeox]

I see no problems with it.
They are born that way, so they arn't injured at all, and it doesn't effect them at all..