zebra danio

[fish48]

The zebra danio a easy fish to keep in the home aquarium
a very Hardy fish and not fussy about conditions zebra danios can take a wide temperature range I keep them at A room temperature of approximately 70°F (21°C). A pH of 76 don't seem to bother them they will eat prepared frozen and live foods, male and female are same colour and very much look alike, when attempting to breed zebra danios it is best to get a group of 6 _10 fish also a chance of getting both male and female , females become more plumper males stay slimmer making them more noticeable, I separate male and females feeding them on a good variety of foods for about a week, I place fish into a breeding tank late in the evening they usually spawn the next morning , when kept at a temperature of 70°F the eggs can take up to six days to hatch I find the number of eggs can very usually between 200 and 300 however I have had over 700 eggs from a single female , Not all eggs will hatch I usually add methylene to help stop the spreed of fungus.
zebra danios are probably the easiest egg scatters also a good species to begin with,

 

[MattW]

A beautiful danio and the first ever species I kept in this hobby. Glad I know more about them now, as they are an underrated fish.

 

[fish48]

it was the first Danio that I got breeding followed by many other species of Danios, it seems to me that the red eye and head and tail light tetra as as made a comeback ,I have not seen them for donkey years

 

[Back in the fold]

I have always liked Zeebs . They were my second egg layer success and I love how big groups of them look .

 

[fish48]

I think all Danios look better kept in large groups when I bread the pearl danio I had 170 of them a stunning colourful fish when sen in natural daylight

 

[TwoTankAmin]

In my first tank I had zebra danios as well as swordtails. The latter having fry caused me to set up a grow tank for them. I had live plants in the 1st tank including some floaters. I moved some of them into the new set-up. To get it cycled I was dosing household ammonia almost every evening. And then one night I went to add the ammonia and I spotted fry, Of course I did not drop in the ammonia and stopped adding it.

They turned out to be zebra fry and must have hitchhiked on the plants. they were the first of my two such experiences dosing ammonia into a tank with new fry that I did not know were there. The next time was about 10 years later and were another danio species, choprae. I had them in a summer Q tank. When I moved out the fish I wanted to keep the filter and plants for cycling reasons and moved some plants and the filter into a rubbmaid 16 gal tub. To hold the cycle on the filter I was dosing ammonia. That was until a friend asked me what tiny fish were those in the tub.