Info for Breeding Zebra Danios?

Question

im looking to breed my zebra danios. any info you can give me is awesome. i have a 30 litre tank with plenty of hiding spots. there are 6 danios in the tank.

Answer 1

Very easy to breed Zebra Danios as they are very prolific breeders. The hard part is keeping them from eating the eggs. What you need to do is get a small shoal of them in your designated fry tank and use marbles for the substrate. The marbles will give spaces for the eggs to fall into for protection. After they spawn you then place the adults back in their tank. The fry will be tiny and should be fed infusoria then crushed flakes.

Answer 2

step one is to sex your danios. Males typically have golden fins as opposed to the females black and white. the female is also much thicker. for successful breeding you should have more males than females. The female (if conditioned properly ) lays ALOT of eggs and it will take a few males to be able to fertilize them all.
A big issue with them is that they are quite willing to eat all the eggs almost as fast as they are layed so be prepared to remove the breeders as quickly after they have bred as possible.
30 litres unforetunately is quite small as you may be dealling with hundreds of babies and they would be overcrowded. for good success you will need at least 80 litres (if not more)

Answer 3

That's a 8 us gallon tank
Here is everything you need to kow about breeding them
http://www.geocities.com/angiemcg2000/zebra.html
http://www.aquariacentral.com/articles/zebradanio.shtml
http://fish.orbust.net/zebradanios.html


Hope that helps
Good luck




EB

Answer 4

try useing live plants