whywolfprincess replied to your photo “For everyone who likes seeing the Glofish!”
Do you use a special lamp for your GloFish? I thought they were fluorescent and glow like a coral or are they actually just normal bright in your pics? In Germany they only sell those abominationable plastic plants from GloFish so I have Zero Experience and I am just curious. (I would like to find out if they have parents who carry the gene for the gloproteine, or if they go through the hassle and insert it into all fishembryos?)
Hey there! I don’t use a special light, I have LED lights and they just look like that in normal light and under the LEDs. However, here’s a few pics of them under just the Blue LEDs, you can see they fluoresce (although it’s hard to take a picture of them like that)
The gene for these colors and fluorescence is in them, so any offspring they have will automatically have these colors and fluorescence. They were initially bred in laboratories, with the gene being tied to other, “invisible” genes so they can see what genes got passed to what offspring. Now they’re bred for the aquarium hobby. There’s only one catch - they are Trademarked, I believe? The thing is, no one is legally allowed to breed them, and especially to sell them, without a license from the GloFish people.
But if you were to breed them, they’d have colorful shiny babies. I don’t know if mixed-color parents would have mixed-color babies but maybe? They’re really cool fish! I really like having them in a planted tank too, they look neat.