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| Zebra Danio photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons User bob_jenkins |
Origin: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar
Life-span 5 year
Temperature: 65 to 78°F
Food: Flake food, bloodworms, tubifex, brine shrimp
Care: The zebra danio is a schooling fish so get at least three of them (I recommend at least five) so that they can school. They generally swim in schools around the middle and top of the aquarium. They breed like crazy and watching them spawn playfully is very entertaining. However, they eat their eggs. If you are interested in breeding your zebra danios, put them in a tank of at least five gallons with marbles lining the bottom so that they can't reach the eggs to eat them. Remove the danios after seeing them spawn or after 24 hours. As long as you have at least one fertile male and female in the tank, you SHOULD have eggs. Sexing zebra danios is difficult. The males are slender and females tend to have a larger belly.
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