What bioluminesce fish are available to the aquarium market?

[rwb500]

Feed about a dozen of these ugly little manufactured fish to a lion and see what happens.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+881+3026&pcatid=3026

nothing. nothing would happen.

Nothing is being "tortured".

what he meant was that things are selectively bred until their quality of life is severely decreased because of physical deformities which have been selectively bred in, the opposite of what would happen in nature.

 

[MrTuskfish]

nothing. nothing would happen.




what he meant was that things are selectively bred until their quality of life is severely decreased because of physical deformities which have been selectively bred in, the opposite of what would happen in nature.

1.) Of course not, I assumed readers would assume it was a joke.

2.) Are you sure what Raven1645 meant?
This is true of every domestic animal in existence. How long would a chicken survive in the wild? Quality of life for a wild fish is based on eating, not being eaten, and reproducing. Do Countries really have bureaucrats who decide what "quality of life" is for a fish?

 

[Raven1645]

That quality of life is, I think, made up by how far it gets from nature. Even though nature is a difficult term to use these days imo, as human evolution to what we are right now is nature too.
However what I ment was that putting the DNA of a jellyfish harmlessly into a fish that probably doesn't have a longer memory than one hour, isn't as bad as forcing a highly intelligent monkey to consume human medicines. But some people act as if it's the same thing done by the same people. That's why stuff like that gets banned, which is a shame I think.

 

[jeosbo]

'Quality of life' is a terrifying term to me when we are talking about our beloved pets and restrictive legislation on them. It could be argued that simply keeping a fish in a glass box diminishes it's quality of life. I typically oppose restrictions on what we can keep because of my fear of the slippery slope effect. With all of the 'animal rights' super groups that we have in the US I could easily see someone trying to ban fish in anything other than their natural form, and then banning any fish because of the unnatural nature of aquariums...I am also heavily involved in keeping reptiles and amphibians. Over the last 2 decades I have seen increasingly strict restrictions on what can be kept, much of it is based on no documented ecological impact. Because far fewer people feel connected to a snake than they may to a reef tank it is easier for the laws to be worked in, but slippery slope my friends, slippery slope.
Also...sorry to take this thread so far off course...and I'll hop off my soapbox now.