I've had tropical fish for a loooooong time now, and as I'm sure anyone know's who has them, the Danio's are incredibly active! But i'm starting to find now that they keep attempting to jump out of the water - just before as I was changing the tank light, one managed to jump out! And at nights, I keep hearing the splashing sound from under the hood (tank is in bedroom).
My own idea was that maybe the water temperature was too high - I know that when fish do feel the heat, they do get tempted to jump out of the water.
But if anyone has any other ideas, then pleeease tell me! And what expieriences have you had with the danio's? I've currently got a shoal of Leapord D's, Rummy nosed tetras, neon tetra's, and some orange platty's (why do they produce som much poo?)
Thanks guys!
2007-07-12 05:37:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
They can jump out dew to a predator, but with those fish are fine with each other so this is unlikely to be the problem. Likely causes are if they were before in a tank that was bigger, or there are less fish of their own species than there used to be, but this will settle down after a while but can also try to jump when changing water or fiddling about with the tank. Check that your tank is not to small/overcrowded as they do not like this a 20 gallon tank is necessary for a small shoal. The temperature with Leopard danios should be not much more than 24°C. They jump in darkness (usually dawn or dusk) because the light in the tank is out and they are trying to find lighter areas. You could in this case try blocking out light when the tank light goes off.
As for the platies copperhead has a great answer.
2007-07-12 07:30:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's in the nature of the fish to be jumpers. I kept a school of these once, and I swear the fish thought they were salmon - they kept dissapearing, and I would find them later in the filter - they were swimming up to, and jumping "upstream" where the water was coming out. A glass cover with a plastic back that you can cut to create openings for your filter is about all you can do to keep them in the tank. But you shoud check the temperature, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and pH, just to be certain they don't have additional reasons to want to jump.
As far as your platy, it sounds like they are constipated if the poo is the same color as the food. Soak the flakes or pellets about a minute to soften them before you feed, and give them a cooked green pea with the skin removed about once a week. The plant fiber act the same way in fish as it does in people. They are omnivores, so they should be getting some plant material in their diets anyway. You can also give them slices of cooked or frozen zucchini and cucumbers or some blanched romaine lettuce too
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2016-04-24 15:47:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How big is your tank? Sometimes if they are feeling overcrowded, they will feel the need to move to other surroundings, which in a tank setting tends to mean jumping out of the tank in search of bigger space.
That said, some fish are just naturally jumpy, such as hatchet tetras.
In fact, danios are known for being extremely active and needing plenty of swimming space as well as being excellent jumpers.
2007-07-12 06:00:40 · answer #4 · answered by kendermonkey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What can be said except Danio are natural jumpers. it's said that a large tank can help and that keeping them in groups can help and that keeping the tank cooler can help. But to be honest all of these are anecdotal at best and while they may work for one person they may not for the next. Just cover the tank as well as possible and hope for the best really.
The same can apply to the platys... they just do, it's nature.
MM
2007-07-12 06:06:07 · answer #5 · answered by magicman116 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the jumping out of the water is just their nature...the only way to keep them safe is by covering teh entire taknk with a hood and i have plastic strips along teh open back end of my tank.
as for the poop situation it might be explaned by how many fish are in your tank. there should be 1" of fish per gallon of water. also you should be removing 20% of the water and cleaning gravel with a syphon at least once a month....this might help with the problem.
this is a great website for choosing which fish to put into your tank
2007-07-12 05:47:08 · answer #6 · answered by MeGaN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure the danios are in even numbers because they often will jump when they get lonley, even if u have a large number, to form a small school of fish, u need to make sure that there is an even number so each as a sort of buddy and dosent get left out. mine started jumping as well and when i told the store the problem this is what they told me
2007-07-12 06:58:00 · answer #7 · answered by pandasrcool 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put a glass to cover your tank before is late. Test the water too check nitrites and Ph. They have to be Nitrites 0 and Ph 7 or 7.5
May be the water, they are not jumping fishes.
2007-07-12 20:03:03 · answer #8 · answered by Mary 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2017-02-27 18:47:36 · answer #9 · answered by Ellis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Danios and other cyprinids are prone to doing that due to there nature. My Bala shark jumped out of the tank and landed 2 rooms away!
2007-07-12 06:31:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋