Glow Light Danios

[The-Wolf]

it is a half circle, 2ft at the back 18" from middle of back to the front
15" high

 

[daspricey]

cool.

although not keane on the half circle tanks, purfur the good old rectangular tanks. i'll have alook round.


thanks so much for your help!

david

 

[tropicman]

I work in a fish store and we have kept Glowlight Danio in cooler tanks before at room temperature they should be fine once they get use to it

 

[KerriPaul]

I regularly expose my danios to 13-14C when I do water changes.

I have Danios dangila [8], roseus(6), sp hikari [8], glowlight(3), putao glowlight (3), feegradei (10), TW01 (2), TW03 (6), rerio (40), abolineatus (40), kerri (10), pulcher (25), tweediei (40), kyathit striped (4), kyathit spotted (2), plus devario assamensis (15), devario chrysotaeniatus (2) devario regina [8], devario shanensis (6), corys (6), weather loach (2), plec (1), green swordtail (4), rasbora rasbora (6), black neon tetra (5) celebes rainbow fish (3), vietnamese white cloud (5) and pearl gourami (2) in my two tanks.

One is 55 gal one is 15 gal. Neither tank is heated. Many of the fish are wild caught and about 1/4 of them are bred by myself. I do not always use heaters in the breeding tank. Temperatures of 18-20C are typical and I have also bred rerio assamensis feegradei and albo in breeding tanks without heaters.

I tend to find higher temperatures over stimulate the fishes metabolism leading to shortened lives and dropsy. This is noticable on hot summer days when the room heats the tank.

Essentially Danios are subtropical fish from mountain streams.

Despite the large number of fish I have not lost any since October. I put this down to the cooler temperatures and having a huge clump of java moss in each tank. The larger tank has two power filters with the massive java moss clump placed below one of the inlets to act as a pre filter and a huge number of other plants, the smaller 15 gal tank tank (which only has 20 rerio, 20 pulcher fry, 40 albos, 5 viet white clouds, 3 rainbowfish, 3+3 glowlights, 6 sp TW03, and 2 swordtails +10 baby swordtails) is undergravel filtered with a large amount of java moss but no other plants.

I do water changes every 2-3 weeks and change approx 50% of water replacing it with cold tap water straight from a hose. The only treatment I give is API tap water conditioner to remove the choramine. My water has a high permanent hardness content.

They get fed mostly aquarian tropical flake food once a day with occasional froxen bloodworm and lobster eggs.

Disease wise is best always to have white spot and velvet treatments.

Earlier in 2006 the fish suffered from a ulcer disease. I lost a lot of fish before realising that it was the advanced stage of velvet. Because danios are small you often dont see the velvet. Often the fish which developed ulcers got dropsy as a secondary infection or due to organ failure caused by the ulcers. Last time I had one with an ulcer put anti velvet in and it cleared up in 48 hours. Not entirely sure if its velvet or some other pathogen that velvet cure zaps.

 

[daspricey]

hello tropical man and Kerri paul

Essentially Danios are subtropical fish from mountain streams.

yup my rio 300(if i ever get it) is going to be subtropical at 22*c with 2 weather loaches, 10 zebra danios, 10 lake tebera rainbowfish, 5 peppered corys, 1 hoplo cat and 2 killi fish(still deciding on wich species) and maybe some amano shrimp(worried about them with loaches).
i can always take something of that list to make room for glowlight danios.(or other danios)
i daon't think i'm going to put them in coldwater but i might in sub trop.
thank you for your time(and long post)

david