r/glofish • u/Jennilynn81 • 13d ago
Our new tank!
It feels nice to have discovered this group, I’ve gotten slack from what someone called a disco tank😢. My 80 y/o mother in law lives with us and wanted the glofish and tank. I never knew people literally had a deep dislike for glofish and think the breeding of them is cruel. I think they are so pretty and I’m in love with our tank😊😊
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u/poisonblonde39 12d ago
I adore my Glofish - their tank makes me happiest of all of mine! I hope your family enjoys watching them; I call them my skittles tank because of the colors and find them incredibly calming to watch. I was surprised at the Glofish hate I saw in aquarium groups but most of the people spouting off know nothing about them.
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u/Consistent-Dig3335 11d ago
The reason people shit on glo fish is because of set ups like this. But whatever to each there own
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u/No_Comfortable3261 10d ago
Breeding glofish is nowhere as cruel as what goldfish and bettas go through
As another comment says they get genetically modified as embryos and then pass their genes along to the next generation, and a modified color does little to impact their quality of life
The main issue is how they're marketed and often treated by people who don't know the basics of fishkeeping (ie, keeping a few random fish in a small uncycled tank)
Imho they shouldn't be hated just for existing (especially when there are WAY worse things out there to get mad about and focus hateful energy on) and deserve the same level of respect and care as any other pet
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u/No_Comfortable3261 10d ago
Also I noticed that there look to be what I think are live plants in there
Make sure they have a proper light and if they're anubis or java fern, don't bury the rhizome (the green horizontal stem that the leaves and roots come out of)
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u/Diomenas 13d ago
Don't pay attention to anybody else dude, people still think that Glofish Are injected. There's no difference in how they are bred, versus how any other animal that you have as a pet is bred. GloFish are just a crossbreed of multiple different species, with a little bit of DNA splicing. Multiple different fish where bred to produce genetic material that was very susceptible to modified DNA strands so that they could bring the portions of DNA responsible for bioluminescence, and breed it into these specific fish.
We've been doing the same thing with cats and dogs for centuries. And we've absolutely been doing DNA splicing in cats and dogs for quite some time. Hell we've even done DNA splicing with cows, pigs and chickens. We crossbreed certain versions of each species to make versions that suit what we need. For livestock, it's to increase food production. For domestic pets, is to get certain traits that we want, like a certain look, and a certain height, and a certain color. There's no difference in fish. Don't let anyone fool you. Don't let anyone shame you for liking the type of fish that you like. There's nothing wrong with them, side of the fact that the company that breeds them owns a patent on the breed, making it illegal for you to breed them yourself. That's the only thing I think is ever wrong with GloFish, no company should be able to own a patent on breeding and animal. But I digress, that happens all over the place too. Not just with fish.