Umm..

[newbie?]

Well..my zebra danio (look at my sig) was chasing my white clouds and tetras, so I......became a bit...nasty..heres the story:

As I said before, my zebra danio was chasing my small fish. I came across a small 1/2 gallon bowl and gave out an evil laugh. I filled this bowl up, caught the zebra danio, then put it in the bowl . This bowl is: unfiltered, unheated and the water came straight from the tap . The zebra danio stayed there for 24 hours until I felt sorry for it and put it back in the tank. My zebra danio has not chased my small fish ever since . You might be guessing I was treating my fish some discipline

 

[Ben]

you're evil.......

 

[Snowie]

Zebra danios are schooling fish, if you keep just one don't excpect it to behave in a natural way.

 

[The-Wolf]

I suggest that either you get 4 more ZD's or you rehome it to a lfs.

Posting a things such as you have is surely to attract some flames,
become responsible or give up the hobby

 

[Erised]

Also, a 12 Gallon is not big enough for any zebra danio. They're very active and will need a lot of space. And like Wolf said, they do indeed have to be in big schools to take out their ' aggresion' onto eachother. They're fin nippers you see.

 

[_groove_]

Please... shame on you!

RANT: By sticking any tropical fish in unheated, untreated tap water, be it a neon tetra, a betta, a guppy or a pirahna, you are putting the fish in a very harsh (for them) environment. This promotes all sorts of unhealthy things to happen, because you are exposing it to a very unnatural (read: stressful) situation.

You mentioned the water conditions you put that fish in which implies you know better as to required conditions to support healthy fish. Fooling around like this is noy only cruel to that fish, but could end up having more wide spread consequences.

If your fish became too stressed by your abusive treatment, it could end up contracting any number of diseases, and putting it back into the main tank will give any such diseases a foothold there as well.

I'm sure you only had the "Best" intentions to teach your fish "discipline" by punishing him like that. Understand that a zebra danio cannot be sent to sit in the corner of the classroom like a 6 year old child. If he has "calmed down" its more likely due to shock.