Monday, May 14, 2007

Zebra Danio (Danio rerio)


Source from Fish tank and ponds


Also: Zebrafish, Brachydanio rerio

Family: Carp and minnows, Cyprinidae

Characteristic: 2.4 in (6 cm), male slimmer.

Tank and water: 10 gallons min, pH 5.5-9.5, 74-81 F (23-27 C)

Care: Keep in a school in elongated, light aquarium with strong water movement and gravelly substrate, with a few pebles. Takes all standard foods.

Habits: Very lively stream fish from clear streams in northen India; loves to swim.

Compatibility: Ideal with bottom-dwelling stream fish from Asia, such as Stream loaches (Shistura, Nemacheilus) or high stream loaches (Gastromyzon)

Personal note: This are the oficial cycling squadron. They are very hard. This fish is mixed whit corals DNA to produce the Glofish.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thinking about getting those? i would suggest to you to start out w/ probably 2 in the 55 gallon tank i think they shouldn't get much bigger than that picture... i would have to research it a little bit more for ya...

Anonymous said...

hi,my danios just had babies and i was wondering if they are born white with black spots,the parents are a zebra and a lepoard,could another fish ferterlize there eggs?

Unknown said...

@Kelsea:

I hope you come back to this page and read this.

All little fish are white and dificult to identify with the parents. We have orange and blue platies and when little they are all the same.

There can't happend cross species fertilizing. But what can happend is that famales can be fertilized one time and last for several "delivers". So sometimes happend that the little fish are dislike the parents you ahve in the tank, because came fertilized already from the shop.

Congratulations and good luck
A