Glofish

Hello. Are these fishes nice? It may look normal in this picture but do you know that it will glow in the dark.

These fishes are known as glofish®. They are available in three stunningly beautiful colors: Starfire Red™, Electric Green™, and Sunburst Orange™.Scientist create them for research. They originate from zebrafish. Zebrafish have been used in the genetics, molecular biology and vertebrate development. It also help scientist to understand cellular disease, cancer and gene therapy.

It is created by adding a fluorescence gene to the zebrafish gene in the fish egg. Once developed, the fish will then mature to become a fluorescence fish and their offspring will also inherited the gene and will also fluoresce. At this moment, this fish will fluoresce continuously. Researcher is now undergoing research to make this fish to detect the presence of environmental toxins in the water. They hope to produce a fish that will fluoresce when the water contain toxin and when the water is safe, it will not fluoresce.

However it is not sold in Singapore however from their website it mention that they do work with Carolina Biological Supply Company and I do know a saleman from there. But I did not ask whether he can import the fish for us or not as I do not intend to buy. Anyway here is just a brief introduction on glofish which I happen to know and share with you all. For more information, you can go to this website : www.glofish.com and also special thanks to them for the picture of the glofish.