"Glow little glow fish, .."

[JackLuis]

An aquarium fish -- a convict cichlid, also known as the zebra cichlid -- that has been transgenically modified to glow in the dark. A whole school of the glow-in-the-dark fish, which were modified using genes from a deep water jellyfish, were presented by Taiwan's Council of Agriculture at a press conference on Friday in Taipei.

Cool.

 

[SoldiersPoem]

That's kind of awesome.

 

[JackLuis]

Welcome SP.

He's saying, "Dude, you blew away 20 Million Years of camouflage!"

 

[R. Richard]

Ummm, if they're having trouble locating fish, it would seem a lot simpler to just put them in a smaller aquarium, with less aquatic foliage and no bamboo sections for the smaller fish to hide in.

As to saving on electric lighting bills with glow fish, any electric lighting bill savings would be overwhelmed by the cost of genetic modification.

Wait! Maybe the fish will have advertising slogans biologically engineered into their sides (and maybe even fins.) Yeah! GM could produce fish that carry the message, "Toyotas are all wet!" Or, "Fords sink!"

 

[BearDrummer]

... snip ... Yeah! GM could produce fish that carry the message, "Toyotas are all wet!" Or, "Fords sink!"

I've heard of this concept on butterfly wings as well... with icons more than words, but hey!

 

[R. Richard]

I've heard of this concept on butterfly wings as well... with icons more than words, but hey!

Technology must adapt or die!