Fluorescent Cichlids are really the last thing this hobby needed but that hasn’t stopped Taiwanese researchers from doing to cichlids what they’ve done to zebra danios. Fluorescent angelfish and fluorescent convict cichlids are the first unfortunate casualty of the Asian desire for freakish fish like flowerhorns and blood parrots. We’re actually kind of surprised that the freak show didnt start with those triploid and hybrid mutants but our guess is that their genetic makeup is already too corrupted to accept any more genetic errors. Although the Fluorescent cichlids began their existence by injection of the fluorescent gene(s) into fertilized eggs, the fluorescent angelfish and convicts now have bred several generations while successfully passing on the fluorescent traits. These genetically modified organisms will be regulated in some countries but like the Glofish before them, it will be a matter of time before fluorescent angelfish adn fluorescent convict cichlids are a mainstay in many aquarium shops around the world. Follow the break for another video of the Fluorescent Convict Cichlids

[via PFK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyHV3gPIGPY