Re: Old Topic - Glowing Zebra Danios

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (TYNK  7) wrote:

>On their website for these fish is clearly states that the fluoresence 
>is passed down to their offspring. That would tell me yes.

Well, clearly the fish can breed, otherwise production costs of doing
GM manipulations to each batch of eggs would be high. I asked the
question poorly - it should have been "are the fish being sold to
consumers able to breed, or have they been rendered sterile"?

I saw a number of people (Nth level hearsay) commenting that the fish
were irradiated to make them sterile before sale. From a business
standpoint, this might make sense - after all, if any competent
hobbyist can breed them (and danios are apparently easy to spawn) then
the original distributor can quickly lose control of the market.


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