Help....might be about to lose our first fish - we noticed a Zebra Danio stuck in a hole in a piece of bogwood, fat with eggs.....fortunately there was a slight crack leading to the hole and I managed to break the bogwood under the water, the fish swam away, but is now lying on the gravel, tail flapping slowly, she has lost some scales on the top, but otherwise looks ok....Should I leave her and hope for the best or.......
Is there any hope ?
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If you can put her in a seperate tankd from everyone else. Turn out the lights and let her be. I think a lot of what you are seeing is stress and the sooner she destresses the better for her. She may make it and she may not. I've seen a lot of strange things happen so just keep an eye on her and go from there. Don't feed her tonight but feed her tomorrow morning or evening some frozen bloodworms. Rose
Thanks Rose, unfortunately the other tank has about 70, 4 week old Danios in it, so not much destressing there - I did manage to get her into one of those hatchery things without any trouble and she seems to be settling - we'll wait and see what happens....
Brian sorry I wasn't on sooner but Rose has given the best advice and going by the times of posting not far off (Must be her uncanny intuition). It'd probably be better if you have a spare tank you could use(if your hatchery is one of the things that sit in the main tank). Keep the lights off and try not to disturb the tank to much as was said. The rest of your fish will do ok with missing a meal or two. Danios are hardy fish so the odds are better than 50/50 but with being gravid it might put the stress levels up a bit. It's one of these factors that get thrown into things just to confuse us, some are ok some aint.
Let us know how things are and if you need any other advice just post.
Let us know how things are and if you need any other advice just post.
Brian that is a lot of young danios! Did you just take the eggs out from the community tank or scoop out the babies when they hatched? Will the platies eat eggs or whatever. I am thinking of getting 4 danios will they have babies in my tank - inhabitants listed in sig 
And to anyone would this be overstocking it a tad or?
William 8)
And to anyone would this be overstocking it a tad or?William 8)
Should have added this bit but until William posted I just didn't think.
Brian how many adult fish do you have? Danios, especially zebras are known for eating any eggs, fry in the tank. I've had 6 (two males 4 females) in my community tank for over a year( some died and were replaced) and never had any fry, not that I noticed anyway. Just wondering if you breed them or not?
Brian how many adult fish do you have? Danios, especially zebras are known for eating any eggs, fry in the tank. I've had 6 (two males 4 females) in my community tank for over a year( some died and were replaced) and never had any fry, not that I noticed anyway. Just wondering if you breed them or not?
sorry I haven't posted for a while, but the rallying season has started again and I've been kind of busy with work and with the foot and mouth last year the car has lain dormant...and refused to cooperate.....
the Danio saga.....unfortunately the poor fish in question lasted about another 12 hours and was then found doing floating....the offending bogwood has been removed....
We originally bought 6 Danios - some male and some female - don't know the split and kept them in a 10 gallon quarantine tank...after a fortnight we moved them to the main tank and were just about to go out for more fish, when my wife noticed a tiny speck clinging to the side of the tank, on closer examination, there were about 6 or seven visible, each day we counted more and more - we took 30 of the bigger ones to the lfs a couple of weeks ago and still have about 60 or so...it's costing me a fortune to feed them !!! the rest are about to go to the lfs soon before they start breeding !
Since we moved them into the other tank, there have been no more Danio fry, so the Platies and the Cory's must be eating them......However, we started with 6 Platys, and now have about 40, so some of these will be going to lfs soon as well...
Not sure what it is, but my wife is expecting another bairn as well........Please don't come and visit me or you could end up with offspring too................
the Danio saga.....unfortunately the poor fish in question lasted about another 12 hours and was then found doing floating....the offending bogwood has been removed....
We originally bought 6 Danios - some male and some female - don't know the split and kept them in a 10 gallon quarantine tank...after a fortnight we moved them to the main tank and were just about to go out for more fish, when my wife noticed a tiny speck clinging to the side of the tank, on closer examination, there were about 6 or seven visible, each day we counted more and more - we took 30 of the bigger ones to the lfs a couple of weeks ago and still have about 60 or so...it's costing me a fortune to feed them !!! the rest are about to go to the lfs soon before they start breeding !
Since we moved them into the other tank, there have been no more Danio fry, so the Platies and the Cory's must be eating them......However, we started with 6 Platys, and now have about 40, so some of these will be going to lfs soon as well...
Not sure what it is, but my wife is expecting another bairn as well........Please don't come and visit me or you could end up with offspring too................
Pity about the one dying. it must have been to stressed out.
Don't apologies as everyone has to dissapear now and again.
and we'll blame you for the influx of offspring, I'll definetly not be visiting as I'm bad enough trying to look after myself and my fish and the girlfrinds gone back to Germany for the summer
and I definetly don't want to have to try and explain it to her.
Don't apologies as everyone has to dissapear now and again.
and we'll blame you for the influx of offspring, I'll definetly not be visiting as I'm bad enough trying to look after myself and my fish and the girlfrinds gone back to Germany for the summer
and I definetly don't want to have to try and explain it to her.Similar threads
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