This should not be confused with the GloFish, a trademarked brand of fluorescent zebrafish that appear to glow in the dark under ultraviolet light.

Danio choprae is an active danionin species that spends most of its time on mid-water levels.

It has a streamlined body marked with a brilliant orange longitudinal band and a series of vertical blue-black bars on the flanks.

Its common name derives from its similarity to the glowlight tetra, a South American characin only distantly related to this fish.

This variant is larger and has more vertical bars and longer barbels, it may refer to Danio flagrans.