Danio breeding trouble?!

[Prophecy]

Recently I have been trying to breed a longfin Zebra Danio(her fins are still fairly short though) with a regular Zebra Danio, and for some reason they just won't lay eggs? I have been separating them for a few days at a time followed by a breeder box, and the female will be all over the male but no eggs? I already bred this male with another danio so I think he is viable, and danios are supposed to be very easy to breed.

Are the two not compatible?

 

[Virtuoso2K12]

They are able to mix breed,but danio are loyal to the ones they first pair off with. Try a new single male.

 

[Prophecy]

Wow, I was afraid of this also...ok so he is basically just another member of the community tank now Thanks!

 

[Virtuoso2K12]

Your welcome, i currently have some 3 day old frys from a mix of short,long finned and leopard with regular ones

 

[Mgamer20o0]

is the female full of eggs? this is the first i heard about danios pairing up lol where did you get that info from?

 

[Inka4040]

Danios are egg scattering group spawners. Whoever told you that doesn't know very much about fish Virtuoso. Try keeping the fish apart for more than a few days, and feeding both fish heavily on frozen foods like bloodworms and mysis shrimp before putting them back together. Keeping the water in the breeding tank a few degrees cooler than their regular tank can also help trigger some action.

 

[Prophecy]

Ok I'll try putting them back together and drop the temperature of the breeding tank, but I also picked up another male to help out.

I have also read somewhere that danios are mates for life, so I was wondering if this may be the case...it was very easy to get the danios to spawn the first time around, but since then the female has died(someone decided to mess with my co2 maker:headshake2 and he just wont spawn with the new female. I'll keep on trying though to see if he will pull through:thm:

 

[Prophecy]

is the female full of eggs? this is the first i heard about danios pairing up lol where did you get that info from?

Yes the female is very full of eggs heh, she is wayyyy ready but the male is just a dud.

I did a quick google search and it seems as though the general idea suggests danios do pick a mate for life, although they can rarely form another bond...

 

[Mgamer20o0]

I did a quick google search and it seems as though the general idea suggests danios do pick a mate for life, although they can rarely form another bond...

where did you read this?

why dont you try a bigger group?

 

[Prophecy]

where did you read this?

why dont you try a bigger group?

Just go to google and type "danio mate life" and you should come up with quite a few sites.

I will try with the new male also, so there shouldn't be any problems now...it would be interesting to see if this "old" male will mate eventually. I'll just have to keep trying with him in the next few months.