Golden Malabar Danios

[new fish lover]

I just bought 3 golden Malabar Danios which are currently in the 10 gal quartine. I plan on added them to my 150 gal. Does anyone have any comments about them??

 

[Lateral Line]

What you've probably got is Danio/Devario malabaricus, often called the Malabar or Giant Danio. There are a number of colour forms around now. Easy to keep, easy to feed, easy to breed. Grows substantially larger then many other aquarium Danios, rarely up to 6"/150mm although more normally 4"/100mm. Shoaling fish best kept in groups.

Peaceful enough, but as always, care should be taken when mixing fish of drastically different size. An active species, will frighten small fish by it's bulk and speed.

 

[The-Wolf]

What you've probably got is Danio/Devario malabaricus, often called the Malabar or Giant Danio. There are a number of colour forms around now. Easy to keep, easy to feed, easy to breed. Grows substantially larger then many other aquarium Danios, rarely up to 6"/150mm although more normally 4"/100mm. Shoaling fish best kept in groups.

Peaceful enough, but as always, care should be taken when mixing fish of drastically different size. An active species, will frighten small fish by it's bulk and speed.

All true LL except the valid scientific name which is devario aequipinnatus.
you can read about then at my site. here is a link to the Giant danio page

 

[Lateral Line]

>>> except the valid scientific name which is devario aequipinnatus.

One of the currently proposed scientific names is Devario aequpinnatus. The entire Danio genus has been the subject of much debate, constructive and otherwise. As usual, there are "lumpers" who put things together and "splitters" who split genera for the slightest reason, (often to publish papers and further their career).

There is no universally agreed "Devario" genus for example. It has been proposed, but many learned bodies reject it. The US government for example, does not recognise "Devario x" as a valid genus.

 

[The-Wolf]

There is no universally agreed "Devario" genus for example. It has been proposed, but many learned bodies reject it. The US government for example, does not recognise "Devario x" as a valid genus.

The US maynot but most of "Eurasia" do.
I tend to go with Fang Fang and the consensus of the 4
breeders I know personally.

I do wish "they" would make it easy for everyone and just call them danioins and be done with it I mean dropping brachy, adding microrasboras and sundadanios into the mix as well doesn't help. What's next? Including all rasboras
Stupid scientists

 

[Lateral Line]

Nomaclature is never easy, and "they" will never agree, because as soon as someone/group reclassifies something another 5 groups will start picking their work to pieces and propose their own. It is the way of scientific research. As I said, the need to publish papers is often more important than the need for the papers to be of any value.

Danios were Danios for decades, then the genus became ripe for research grants. The reason being mostly the use of Brachydanio rerio in genetic research. It's DNA sequence was published. Open season on Danio papers.