Zebra Danio's

[Kirsty]

How can you tell the difference between the girls and boys? Because i think i may have a pregnant fish but i want to make sure its female first!

 

[Kiarra]

They are egglayers, and can't get pregnant. They can get GRAVID, however, which means that they can be full of eggs.

 

[Kirsty]

oh rite, ok. well i would prefer she was full of eggs and not pregnant, i have only had fish a week and i dont think i could deal with babies.

 

[sylvia]

Males are more streamlined than the deep-bodied females and sometimes the males have a golden background color as opposed to the females' silver. In long-finned varieties, the males have longer fins than the females. This isn't as evident in the normal wild-type fish which all have short fins.

The Wolf has a site about danios with a pic of a male and female zebra danio to illustrate the differences.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

i think this is true for most fish, females are usually bigger than male.

 

[Y2J]

I have 4 stripy ones and ones kinda dotty and i thought maybe that one was feamle. I think they are male though but this one looks different to the rest.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

no, just leopards and zebras. male danios are long and slender, like torpedoes. female danios have got a massive pot-belly on them and look like they've swallowed a dime.

 

[Kirsty]

I have four stripy ones and a dotty one too. But from the way you are talking about thier bellies the dotty one is def female, i thought she was looking a little fat.

 

[The-Wolf]

as everyone has stated, females appear
fatter when compaired to a male.
here is a pic of each (female in forground)

HTH