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hey my zebra fish (it is fancy i think with wavey tails and every thing) has been getting fatter and fatter. it think its a she and might be preg. she can't be getting plain fat. or she is getting very fat. i can tell over night that she is a litter fatter. could you give me info is she is preg and what to if she is. thanks



questions: are zebra fish live bears, are their fry eay to manage, do you need any speacl food? any info added on would be greatly apreated

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the zebra danios are not live bearers and you would need some male danios too. They are egg scatters and they will eat thier own fry and/eggs. It is best to keep them in a small 5 gallon that is heavily planted so they cant eat their eggs. once the parents are done spawning you can remove them so you can start raising the fry. the fry hatch within 36 hours and will become free swimming within days. when they first start feeding they will need plants to feed off of or you could use micro worms, vinegar ells, grindal words, green water, or infoursia. their fry are easy to manage compared to some other egg layers. the fry will be ready to accept bbs within a couple of days after being on their first food. if you do not have bbs than you can use some first bites by hikari or you could use some boiled egg yolk mixed into a paste then take a toothpick and slightly dip some in the water. the egg yolk will polute the waater so you need to be doing almost daily water changes if you can. the fry should be able to take finely crushed flake food once they are about the size of livebearer fry.

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i think it was pregant when i bought her. i only have one baby plant. should i buy a plant? i can at pet smart this saturday. her belly is most deffanly bigger already. i don't have a 5 only a 10 (gallon). if i buy a 5 gallon when i go to pet smart should i put her in there (with a heater) and when she lays her eggs put her with the other fish? i have a baby saver net. i asome i can't put them in that cause it only has fake plants and already has baby guppies in it. when can i start feeding them flakes?

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how can you tell when they lay their eggs? are they skinny then? are they like gups and have more then one batch of fry?


thanks for helping me!

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i have an empty 1 1/2 gallon. could i use that? is there a way i can amke it so i won't have more babys? it is too much fokr me to have to do the tank and evry thin;g.. i would put plants in it. how many babys do they lay? any useful hINTS?




THANKS

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since you said a small 5 gallon does that mean that i can use a 1 1/2 gallon with less plants but still a lot? (enough to make it hard to eat their eggs but possable to move like three) my 1 1/2 galoon is skinny and high... is it the plant they eat or some thing on the plant? do you know around how big they are? are they the head of a pin or invisanble? how big ils the egg? where would you say a good placce would have fish food for them?




thank you so much