Fluorescent fish have not only given Taiwan coverage in many important international media outlets, but inventor Tsai Huai-jen was even invited to be on a foreign call-in show on its account. Junior high school teachers and elementary school students in the US have written with questions about the fluorescent fish. Even a university student in faraway South Africa wrote to obtain a fish, hoping to see this new wonder for himself.
螢光魚不僅讓台灣登上了許多國際重要媒體，發明人蔡懷楨還因此上了國外的叩應節目，美國的中學老師、小學生都紛紛來信詢問有關螢光魚的問題，連遠在南非的大學生也來信索魚，希望能開開眼界。