Freshwater Forum: Zebra Danios Not Breeding
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Q. I have a ask about danio gestation and spawning. My 8- and 10-year-old boys have a 10-gallon aquarium that’s been up for about two years. Their aquarium has guppies , zebra danios and two small catfish.
The guppies reproduce fine. We have had two fat zebra danios for a include of weeks now, obviously female. I figure we could breed them and placed them in an in-tank politeness “cup/tank” (this worked for the guppies) for almost two weeks.
Afterward, we moved them to a small hex aquarium. How long do they stay fat? Is a month (or more now) normal for them to remain heavy? Is there a way to induce them to release their eggs?
I have read what I could find on politesse — “prolific,” “easy to breed,” “no explicit water parameters” — I assume we have two males (slimmer looking) with the females.
We have gravel and some phoney grass on the bottom, and an air stone provides water movement. There is no other filtration , because they looked so massive I figure they’d spawn at any minute. They are near a shaded east window, but one enlist suggested moving them into the sun. We tried that a few days ago for less than an hour and then it got cloudy and has stayed that way since.
Source: FishChannel.com