just wondering
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Yeah I totally agree, selective breeding is OK but genetic manipulation is not, simply because we don’t know enough about the impacts of these manipulations. If we fully understood DNA and its intricacies, and if there was some kind of global consortium in charge of approving specific changes to organisms, then *maybe* it would be OK. But this kind of rampant, haphazard genetic manipulation of genes is very bad. It’s like changing someone’s software without knowing what the full impacts of those changes are, and selling it on the market as if it was the original software.
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On bettas, where did you get a purple betta?!?!?!?!?! I have been searching for a purple half moon and can’t find any… I have been told that a true purple doesn’t exhist. I have one blue half moon (he looked purple when I bought him) and 3 females (one copper, one black devil with full blue irridescent mask, and a red with blue irridescent).
Well my betta isn’t PURE purple. He’s a bit red, a bit blue but mostly purple. Fins are def. purple. (they look awesome when he gets a sight of himself in mirror) But unless one pressed their nose right up to the glass while he was still, they’d swear he’s purple.
My sister gave him to me for christmas after me asking, so dunno where she got him. He’s the common kind, not a fancy kind. A chain petstore probably.It makes me sick to see any fish in a bowl especially a betta or a gold fish. Again, lets educate people about how a fish …
Actually, now that you mention it, the first and best people to educate would be those staff at petstores. Everytime I pass the bettas in their tiny jars I feel sorry for them, and if I make any “aww, poor babies,” noises, a staff member “reminds” me that they “have it much better than in the wild, blah, blah, blah.” :evil:
And then I usually give him an incredulous look, and get away from the idiot.
before I lose control and kick him in the face!
– Atlantis Child
I read somewhere that bettas in the wild actually sit around in a mud puddle for most of the year until it the annual floods make it possible for them to find others to mate with, before it’s back to the old mudhole. Is this true?
Oo… apparently that’s a myth. I just Wiki’d up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_fighting_fish and it’s set me straight. I’m now a believer in sufficient aquarium space for bettas!
I know this post is a bit old, but just saw it. I believe the inter-species chimeras that Yorktown Tech created are actually patented, which explains their insistence on nobody else creating them. While I’m not as opposed to the company’s ‘creative’ efforts as Steve is, he is definitely on the right scent re: their incentive. Because the glofish (which have a stunning brilliant color in normal lighting, not just under UV) are viable, their combined genetic composition breeds true, but here’s the catch: breeding them (not to mention selling the young) constitutes *patent infringement*. More than one reason to avoid buying them, not the least of which it is illegal for a regular Joe to breed them in a home aquarium.
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