Dario Dario

[rocknurworld2006]

Anyone keeping these at the moment??

Really interested to hear anybody whos managed to breed them

 

[helterskelter]

Not looked into it much but i believe their a cave spawner, if my memory recall's it. sure i saw something in PFK 3-4 years back

 

[rocknurworld2006]

yes there seems to be limited information on them.


there a lovely interesting little fish

 

[rocknurworld2006]

anyone kept them?

 

[Amerce]

Hi keep these and they are quite hard to breed, one misconception is that they breed and look after their fry like the normal Badis but that is wrong they egg scatter and once the fry are born can make nice meals for the parents.

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A bit more history: the genus Dario was created a few years ago by Sven Kullander and Ralf Britz when they were studying the genus Badis and realized that the "scarlet badis" (then called Badis bengalensis, an invalid trade name) was sufficiently different in behavior and anatomical structure from other Badis that it needed a new genus name. So now there are 3 known species of Dario (scatter eggs in plants and leaf litter, do not guard them) and about 12 to 15 species of Badis (stick eggs on a surface and guard them).

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I've kept both badis and dario and can say that the above statement is correct.