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Old June 19th, 2008  
Fish Bum
 
Pregnant or Not?

Okay, I'm pretty sure on this one, but I want to make sure she/he is pregnant.

I have another zebra danio (I think he is a male). They chase each other around the tank. But if she is I have no breeder tank, no other tank, no mables...

My other danio has turned orange, too!
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Old June 19th, 2008  
King of Curt
 
Danio do not get pregnant. Danio are eggscatterers, which means they get gravid with eggs. The females drop the eggs all over the tank and the males go behind the females releasing sperm, which inseminates the eggs. The danio fry are so small that you'll probably not see them without looking EXTREMELY hard. Even if they did survive, it is likely that the adults with eat them.

I've bred Danio Kerri, which are very close in behavior to zebras. The way I bred them was to use a 10g tank as a breeding tank. The 10g was stocked with 6 danio (pretty likely with 6 to have atleast one male and one female.) I covered the bottom with a small gravel (so that the eggs could fall between the pieces of gravel, so the fish wouldn't eat the eggs as easily) and lowered the waterlevel to 50% for about a week, then removed all adults and wham-o, babies.

But if you aren't seeking to keep fry then it is perfectly fine to let the adults eat em. (That sounds cold-hearted to some, but it is nature at its finest. )

The bottom left picture shows clearly that the girl is gravid.

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Old June 19th, 2008  
Fish Bum
 
So... the eggs aren't fertilized yet?

Could I use one of these?

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Old June 19th, 2008  
Fish Bum
 
I put them in a two-way breeder. Here they are. I'm going to turn my heater on tonight so she can lay the eggs in the morning.
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Old June 19th, 2008  
King of Curt
 
They must be together for the male to fertilize the eggs. If the male can't fertilize the eggs as they are exiting the female then the eggs won't become fertilized. As the eggs come out of the female the male is spraying sperm into the water, which the eggs then fall through, and therefore become fertilized.
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Old June 20th, 2008  
Fish Bum
 
I don't think their ready yet. I had them in the two-way breeder and I know they have the eggs in the morning, but she didn't have them. I'm going to put them back in the breeder tonight.
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