PFK RSS Feed: Fluorescent cichlids produced in Taiwan

**AquaticQuotient.com** · 28th Jun 2010, 23:10

Taiwan's Council of Agriculture unveiled last week that it has successfully bred transgenic Convict cichlids (Amatitlania nigrofasciata) and Angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare) that fluoresce, in collaboration with the Academia Sinica (Taiwan's national research academy).

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**bossteck** · 5th Jul 2010, 09:35

Why in the world are they doing that?!

**doppelbanddwarf** · 6th Jul 2010, 19:10

I think they're ugly.

**exotic_idiot** · 6th Jul 2010, 23:21

No choice. There's always a market for something new and interesting...
And some unknowingly people will pay good money for it and so on...

**kennyseah17** · 7th Jul 2010, 22:11

looks quite nice to me

**Shaihulud** · 8th Jul 2010, 10:18

I think Ngee Ann Poly was trying the same thing with Angelfish a few years ago, I have a friend who was breeding the fish for the eggs, they were trying to insert a gene that will cause it to fluorescent,, not sure if it was the same thing.