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Told ya to check didn't I??

Brachydanio have four species that we have bred in NZ.

The favourite and best known would be B. rerio, Zebra Danio.

Next would be the Leopard Danio, B. frankei.

Followed in availability would be the Pearl Danio, B. albolineatus.

Now comes the least known here, and the least bred, but in my opinion, the best of the four. B. nigrofasciatus the Spotted Danio.

See if you can find some, and I'm sure that you'll agree with me.

A really worth while addition to a quiet community tank.

Easy to breed too.

Alan 104

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Now for your home-work boys.

Go and do some research and compare the different fish.

The Spotted Danio have spots and stripes,

the Leopard Danio have dots, very fine ones in comparison.

Check them out.

Use the Taxanomical names tho.

Alan 104

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Whether the fish are leopard or spotted danios is beside the point. Alan was merely educating you youn'uns on the differences in the 4 species available.

Perhaps smashing can now have another look at his danios and tell us more accurately which species he has :wink:

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I dont think there is any specific age or size at which danios are ready to breed, but i suggest you do is get the fattest females and a couple of males put them in a tank with marbles in the bottom, (put them in at night) then in the morning as soon as the sun hits they will go into spawning mode and you could get hundreds of eggs, leave them in there for only an hour or so at the most, because eventually they lose interest and will try to eat the eggs through the marbles. put them back into the tank feed them up and let them rest a bit, wait between 1-3 days and whala! hundreds of fry! Now feed them with green water and once big enough microworms or BBS.

Shae

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