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your fish is probably just fat. they are hybrids and i am pretty sure they are sterile. they are injected with jellyfish DNA to get the colors, but it messes they reproduction system up. i have 2 and they eat pretty fast and they are both just as wide as yours
One of my glofish danios is pregnant.
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- Joined: 05-February 08
- Location:VA
- Real Name:??
- Gender:Male
- Total Fish Count:A mess of cories.
- Referred By:Google
Posted 05 February 2008 - 04:04 PM
GloFish are not sterile. They are NOT Hybrids. They are zebra danios with an extra gene injected in them. Other than that single gene, they are exactly like zebra danios in every way humanly possible.
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- Joined: 01-June 07
- Location:Stoughton, Wisconsin
- Real Name:Ted Judy
- Gender:Male
- Age:40
- Betta Count:including fry?
- Total Fish Count:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Referred By:bettabelieveit
- Statement:%$&@*#^$
Posted 17 February 2008 - 01:47 PM
Not hybrids, and definitely not sterile. I have been raising them as feeder fish. Interestingly, my strain of red danios is not as day-glo red as what you see in the stores. I suspect that they are juiced (dyed or hormoned) in addition to having the glo-gene. I got my original fish from a person who had them breed in his planted tanks... not purposefully (as I am doing). They were not day-glo red when I got them, though the parents were. I recently bought some more (both red and yellow) from a store that gets them directly from the producer in Florida, and they are vibrant day-glo. I am curious as to what happens when I corss the red and yellow together, but I also want to test the theory that they are juiced as well as transgenic. The company will not respond to emails with questions about that, so I will just have to breed them to find out ... patent be damned. One of the yellow fish I bought is a leopard danio! Same species as a zebra, just a different genetic pattern of markings.