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Re:By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may h... by twic on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:57PM (#18819204)
Yes, sorry, the embryos are transparent - but so are the larvae, which is what i was thinking of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v1Nfun5PqE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DB_Z0i5g_0

I don't know a lot about zebrafish (never did that postdoc), so i wasn't clear that larvae are a different stage to adults.

Re:By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may h... by pvaldes on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:27PM (#18820417)
They are very easy. I had some long time ago and they even lay eggs and breed in my aquarium, but is not my favourite kind of fish for a community aquarium. Having evolved in clean and rapid rivers in India they are fast and nervous. Always darting and ready to engulf any food scrap. Can be a real source of stress for the other tank inhabitants and also for the owner (all you see most of the time is a blur when you try to observe your fishes).

I wonder how they can pick up a male and two females in a larvae pool. The sexual dimorfism on young zebrafishes is close to inexistent.

I had breeded fishes more transparent that those larvae, but must admit that the macrophage video is very cool.