Glofish origins: Let's discuss these fascinating Transgenic Fishes and how they came to be
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- In today's video we head back to Florida to discuss without a doubt one of most impactful things to happen to the aquarium keeping hobby in the past two decades....GloFish!
These incredibly unique group of man made transgenic fishes have taken the pet trade in North America by storm. Bringing with them a whole new generation of potential hobbyists.
We start by heading behind the scenes at Segrest farms to their breeding facility with non other than Sandy Moore, The president of Segrest Farms. For an indepth look at their facilities and the parent breeding stock.
As well I sat down for the the story with the legendary Bill Shields, the former leads tropical breeder for 5D Tropicals.
Bill was responsible for the production breeding of all their egg scatterers and played a very key role into making GloFish available to the North American Pet Trade.
So let's get a beverage and sit back as we discuss the origins of GloFish from the people that were involved right from the get go.
Wether you like them or not GloFish are here to stay but regardless I think you may find their origin story fascinating.
Thank you kindly for watching,
Biggs
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Bill Shields has bred more fish than anyone in North America, and I have mad respect for him! Thanks for another terrific video! Hope to see you both in person soon!
I could t agree with you more Sandy
Thanks Chris. Education is very important to our hobby. Thanks for the kind words Sandy.
You my friend are legend and I’m truly thankful for your sharing your knowledge and experience with me and the world
Chris I really appreciated this video. Over the past few months I have heard some of the story of how and why these fish came to be and learning about the company "Glo fish"
I know there's a lot of people that just absolutely look down on them, but with a video like this and more education about these fish...it dispels the myth of them being tattooed or injected... Fascinating stuff!!
Personally, I have two rescued female Glo bettas in my sorority and they are two of my favorite fish that I own.. Happy, healthy and thriving!!
I had no idea about all the research, restrictions and paper work that went into these "individual" fish!! Like you said love them or hate them they are here..so why not understand them a little better?
Super cool video I really enjoyed it!! Hope you have a blessed day my friends!! Thank you both for sharing the story of this fish😁👍🌿🐟🌿💚
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Not going to lie glo fish definitely got me back into fish keeping
Whatever it was, Welcome back!
Absolutely love it when you do these interview videos. There are so many experts in the hobby that we would otherwise never see on video. Bravo, sir, keep 'em comin'!
Glad you enjoy it!
I have a massive list of ones to do...Now granted most subscribe to my channel to gander at my incredible sexiness...but I figured too much Biggs is never a good thing...so brining in some amazing people with stories to tell is always a good time!
I really appreciate that even though these fish are not your cup of tea, you took a deep dive to help inform and educate. Great video
It’s really having Bill with all the direct first hand knowledge that makes it great.
I’m just the eye broccoli lol
Some really great information. Very interesting to hear the history of how these fish came to be. I'm really enjoying your delivery of the information, it's like attending a club meeting, but Biggs is the President! Lol, keep up the great work, even the tarantula videos are amazing.
Biggs definitely does not want to president of anything lol
Awsome informative chat. I have a student that just started a aquarium and choose glo tetras. Now i gotta show this video.
Thank you kindly
Wow…. BEAUTIFUL facility… *owns Snapping turtles, envious of amazing filtration system*
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Amazing and credible information, thank you
Thank you very much Suzie
Great video. That was beyond fascinating.
Very kind of you Darryl. It would’ve been so Much better to have done the video in person with Bill and gotten some
More footage of all the glo fish types but worked with what we had.
Could you maybe do a video on selective breeding in the future? I'm pretty curious on how some strains have come to be like the red oscar, electric blue acaras and stuff like that.
Added to the list. I’d love to but in all honesty 90% of my content comes via inspiration.
I do however have a couple people in mind that I could bring onboard to cover such a topic really well.
Thank hank you kindly for the suggestion
@@themadaquarist completely understandable. Well I hope you do in fact find some inspiration in the future! I've been very curious about this for a while but have never found any satisfactory answers.
I just picked up a dozen red glo barbs from Afishanados yesterday. I am blow away by how vibrant these are. Plus side, red is the wives favorite colour. 😁
They are super bright! Gotta wear shades
From what I read, the idea of adding bioluminescent jellyfish DNA into animals, was actually thought up to make other genetic modification visible under the microscope or magnifying technology they used to look at cellular change. By making the cells glow, it made all sort of thing far more visible, so it was easier to record the effect of other genetic modifications
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@@themadaquarist 🤓🤓🤓
Great video
Thank you kindly
I learned so much! Awesome video Biggs
Thanks Dude, how’s the new fish?
@@themadaquarist doing awesome! The myrnae fry are growing quickly
@@themadaquarist can't wait to get the Altifrons pair soon
@@themadaquarist just uploaded a video of them, they are such good parents. A joy to keep
There's glo bettas, and there's super colorful bettas called rainbow candy bettas (like a koi fish or calico cat- but rainbow), imagine breeding a glo betta to a candy betta🤩
Great video my only question is if you breed the a cosmic blue danio to another do you get cosmic blue fry? Or do they revert back to their normal colours?
They breed true. Not sure what would happen if you tried breeding one colour to the next though. Great question
Wow i did not no why the glofish was originally made,thanks for that Mr Biggs, i learnt something today mate,cheers. On a different note, we can't have any glofish here in Australia 🤨....👊👍🤜🤛😁🇦🇺
Canada was the same for years until only two years ago
Can glofish, gold fish any breeds, cherry shrimp, guppy and angelfish used live groot wood, driftwood , crush coral for keep ph and any type live plant? Im used 2.5 feet tank. Im mix all of them in one tank
Yes most definitely
I'm waiting for my GLO pleco
NO
Glow fish aren't my cup of tea either but this was a great video!
Thank you kindly
I wonder how a 3 foot glo pacu would look. Hehe a pink or lime green pacu.
Please no lol
In Ontario we can get 6 different colors of the tetra plus also in longfin
weird. permit wise only five of the tetra are listed......Glofish smuggling bounty? lol
@@themadaquarist PetSmart has them all on there website for sale as well
1.Cosmic Blue Tetra Fish
2. Moonrise Pink Tetra Fish
3.Galactic Purple Longfin Tetra
4. Starfire Red Longfin Tetra
5. Sunburst Orange Tetra Fish
6. Electric Green Tetra Fish
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They are interesting for sure, but "Glofish" is a bit misleading. They don't glow, they merely fluoresce.
But "Flofish" just hasn't the same ring to it, I guess...
Bioluminescence, now that's the real deal!
very true
Canada wooooooooooooooo
Hooooooooooo
Woooooooooooo
Putting some Ric Flair
On it!
People love the things. Only problem I see is that real fish will disappear in favor of these things. I heard they use genetic material from tube anemone to get the garish colors.
Anemone, jellyfish, other corals.
You know I am kinda neutral however I would love to challenge the legal "THEORY" that you can patent a living breathing animal because if you don't mind my saying.... "Datz sum BULLSHIT"!! Now the Actual PROCESS to create a GMO "glo fish" I'm completely on board with that being patented and if they don't want people to breed these they should of only put one sex into the market or create a sterile fish but since it's a living breathing animal I refuse to except the legal decision of someone who needs a good smack-up side the back of their head that this is patent protected just ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING
I am against glofish breading for aquarium hobby.... Aquariums should be about bringing part of nature in your home, not destroying it.
I 100% would not disagree
I disagree with glofish yet I have blood parrot fish so I have no right to dislike them
Yes sadly the blood parrot story is much worse. From my background dissecting a blood parrot fish gives one a whole new view point of why we should leave the role of creation to Mother Nature or a higher power.
Glo fish however liked or hated as an aquarium fish their purpose for being developed had a noble purpose.
Thanks for watching
Genetically modified fish is illegal to keep, sell and import here. I couldn't be happier!
There was a pet store that had some for sale and they got raided, IIRC they got slapped with a fine that put them out of business. Some kid tried to sell some online that he had smuggled in... let's just say his parents were not very pleased.
Personally I am not even a fan of line bred fish, I want the wild variants. But to each their own. :)
Bully for putting people's shops out of business eh ? I'll bet you are an incredibly boorish person to know.
@@disgustedvet9528 I never said I was happy about that, read again. I only said I was happy that they are illegal, not happy about the 2 examples per se. Not sad either to be fair, as they knew perfectly well that it was illegal. If not being sad when somebody breaks the law makes me boorish, fine!
I guess you are ok with people breaking the law then since you take issue with what I wrote.
I edited the post to make it clearer that the examples were not related to my happiness or sadness. I can see after rereading it that they should've been separated into separate paragraphs, so I apologize for the snarky reply.
@@Qyngali Not a problem , sometimes i read into things that do not exist.
They were illegal
In Canada 🇨🇦 up
Until only less than 2 years ago. Illegal still in most of Europe as well I believe
All these genetic manipulations, worry me Brother. This is why I cut my own hair at home. I am afraid, dat da Gubamint, may take a sample and create a race of super soldiers. Love ya Bro
Super soldier? You sure that’s the right word?
Lol love ya dude
No.
You know how I know you’re....
@@themadaquarist , just no, I’ll stick to my jellybean parrots lol
Lol
So basically get a beautiful, natural fish and make it hideous and obnoxious looking that nobody wants