Pregnant Danio?

[marcush24]

Hey there!

I have noticed that one of our striped Danio's is looking abit fat. I don't know if it is pregnant or not

It belly looks really rounded and bulky. It is in the 40 gallon tank with 7 Neon Tetras, 4 Baby Angel fish, and 7 other Danio's ( 4 striped, 4 goldy coloured). I am really confused about this, can someone please help?

thanks

 

[Amunet]

Hey there!

I have noticed that one of our striped Danio's is looking abit fat. I don't know if it is pregnant or not

It belly looks really rounded and bulky. It is in the 40 gallon tank with 7 Neon Tetras, 4 Baby Angel fish, and 7 other Danio's ( 4 striped, 4 goldy coloured). I am really confused about this, can someone please help?

thanks

If it's a female, she's probably just full of eggs. Not exactly what I'd call "pregnant" When she's ready, she'll scatter them, and become thinner again and the whole process will repeat... nothing to worry about. Can't exactly stop danios from breeding so... might get some danio fry if they survive from being eaten and such.

 

[marcush24]

Hey there!

I have noticed that one of our striped Danio's is looking abit fat. I don't know if it is pregnant or not

It belly looks really rounded and bulky. It is in the 40 gallon tank with 7 Neon Tetras, 4 Baby Angel fish, and 7 other Danio's ( 4 striped, 4 goldy coloured). I am really confused about this, can someone please help?

thanks

If it's a female, she's probably just full of eggs. Not exactly what I'd call "pregnant" When she's ready, she'll scatter them, and become thinner again and the whole process will repeat... nothing to worry about. Can't exactly stop danios from breeding so... might get some danio fry if they survive from being eaten and such.

lol! Iv only had them a week or so though, does that matter? Is there anything I can do to stop em being eaten etc? Oh and how long does this process take?

 

[marcush24]

PLease help!

 

[reg]

I noticed this when I had zebras a few years ago. Also, when I feed frozen foods, my danios get absolutley stuffed!!!

 

[Amunet]

I'm not exactly sure how long the process takes. I just know that my danios pretty much started breeding as soon as they went into my tank.
You could probably wait a week, then do a gravel vac, and scoop the water out a cup at a time and inspect it for fry.
That's what I did at first and found a TON of babies.
I eventually got a breeders net and put the ones I had found into it. Most of them didn't survive though, but 3 did and are growing up nicely
Here's a pic I just took of my babies now heh

I'm waiting until I'm positive that they'll be too big for the other fish to bother with before I put them into the main tank area.
I started them on some liquid fry food that I found at Petsmart

Later on when they got bigger, I found this stuff as well. It's a very fine powder. Not sure if it would be small enough for danio fry though, but here it is just in case.

And now that they're bigger, I'm giving them crushed up flake food. Just put regular fish flakes into a ziplock and crush them up as fine as you can

If you're tank is heavily planted, you could probably just leave the fry in the gravel and they'll hide amongst the plants and then you could just hope some would go undetected long enough to where they'll get too big to be eaten.