Glofish tank update!! I rescaped today. I’ve been fighting high nitrates and algae because I haven’t been paying attention to the amount I’ve been feeding.
-Glofish are not dyed; they are selectively bred fish whose ancestors were injected with a jellyfish gene to detect poor water quality-
The world’s prettiest GMOs.
The blackish-grey ones are what they look like in the wild, the two white ones are selectively bred for no pigment, and the rest are genetically modified for those colors. They’re perfectly healthy though may be a bit inbred at this point. If left to breed the bright colors tend to eventually fade, but they do breed adn do produce colored offspring.
Alright, y’all. Bug nerd here. Yes, this is real. This is Charidotella sexpunctata. It’s able change color like this by filling and emptying its elytra (the wing covers) with water. The mirror-like gold effect is caused by it forcing water into separate layers of its elytra, smoothing them out to the point where they actually reflect light. By drawing the water out, the red pigment beneath is exposed. They do this whenever they’re disturbed as a defense mechanism, likely to mimic foul tasting lady beetles.
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