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Originally Posted by karazy
personaly i dont support anything to do with the dying or injecting of fish. its just not natural and can hurt the fish
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If you read up on it, you'd know that Glofish don't even come close to dying fish in terms of how humane the practices are. The flourescent glow of the Glofish is from altering the genes in said fish by "installing" coral genes. This is not harmful to the fish and it does not have harsh side effects like seen with fish that have been dyed. The gene only affects the color of the fish. In all other ways, the Glofish are the same and as healthy as any normal danio.
Not only that, but I don't believe the injection process even takes place now. Now, the Glofish are just bred, creating more Glofish. Those are the Glofish you see in shops now; Not ones that grew from injected embryos, but just from being bred from Glofish parents.
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