Natural or Genetically Altered Fish?

surfer · 05-07-2003, 09:15 AM

I will be the first to admit that I don’t know anything about salt water fish. After looking through the wishlist I have got to ask a question. Are all of the fish in their natural shapes and colors, or has many of them been genetically altered or bred for a specific shape and/or color?

Feldon, if some have been genetically altered or bred for a specific shape and/or color it would be a nice feature to have this annotated next to their name in the wishlist.

Thanks.

GRH

Jav400 · 05-07-2003, 09:24 AM

All the fish placed on the photo wishlist page are natural fish. Those are the only ones we allow. Nature has some wierd twists at times.

feldon34 · 05-07-2003, 10:57 AM

I don't think there has been a significant number of genetically altered saltwater fish.

RBEmerson · 05-13-2003, 10:43 AM

Didn't some Taiwanese researchers come up with luminescent fish by genetic modification? Aside from deep sea fish, the pinecone fish (I think I have name right - I've seen them at the Baltimore Aquarium) are the only naturally luminescent fish that come to mind.

05-07-2003, 09:15 AM	#1
surfer Registered Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 17	Natural or Genetically Altered Fish? I will be the first to admit that I don’t know anything about salt water fish. After looking through the wishlist I have got to ask a question. Are all of the fish in their natural shapes and colors, or has many of them been genetically altered or bred for a specific shape and/or color? Feldon, if some have been genetically altered or bred for a specific shape and/or color it would be a nice feature to have this annotated next to their name in the wishlist. Thanks. GRH

05-07-2003, 09:24 AM	#2
Jav400 Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Tennessee Posts: 9,725	All the fish placed on the photo wishlist page are natural fish. Those are the only ones we allow. Nature has some wierd twists at times. Michael Administrator of Inside:SereneScreen Aquarium Forum, Chatroom, Fan Site & *Gallery* DVD Collection

05-07-2003, 10:57 AM	#3
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,938	I don't think there has been a significant number of genetically altered saltwater fish. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

05-13-2003, 10:43 AM	#4
RBEmerson Registered Join Date: May 2003 Location: Skippack, PA Posts: 47	Didn't some Taiwanese researchers come up with luminescent fish by genetic modification? Aside from deep sea fish, the pinecone fish (I think I have name right - I've seen them at the Baltimore Aquarium) are the only naturally luminescent fish that come to mind. Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.