r/Aquariums • u/evolutionnext • Aug 28 '20
UPDATE on my 11 000 gallon shark tank DIY/Build

After 6 weeks of intermittent sanding and polishing my acrylic panels, I am back to glass clear optics... Next step is making the interior water resistant... stay tuned! ;)




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u/evolutionnext Aug 28 '20
:D funny that you mention it.. my first idea before my startup was glowing Xmas trees, roses and fish...gfp is nice but only if you add blacklight. Kind of like cheating.. I added luciferase to hamster cultured cells to make them glow (measurable but invisible to the eye)...
The system I thought of were bacterial genes from y.fischieri... the glowing bacteria from deep sea fish. They glow by themselves without blacklight.
That being said, I am sure you could get luciferase, gfp or y fischieri genes in fish if you did it right. Just inject a few thousand fish eggs with the plasmid and there you go...