The spawning of fish or inverts.
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to acquire a group of 8 Danio meghalayensis from my good friend Stephan Tanner of Swiss Tropicals. As these fish are quite rare here in the states you can imagine my delight!
After several failed attempts at spawning these fish using a breeder set-up, I decided to loaded them up with live foods and started to monitor them very closely. Several weeks ago during an afternoon thunderstorm they spawned. Continue reading Spawning Danio meghalayensis
After just observing these beautiful fish for the last 18 months I decided it was time to set them up for spawning. I picked these guys up from Pete Mang on AquaBid back in 2009 as just some un-identified Danios that came along with the Hikari Danios being auctioned.
For quite some time, I thought they were the stripped version of Danio kyathit, but after looking through Pete Cottle’s “Danios & Devarios” book I thought they might be Danio sp. Red Fin. Using a photo of one of my breeders, Pete thought they could be Red Fin. Continue reading Spawning Danio sp. kyathit
After months of producing a fry here and there, I woke up to at least 3 dozen Danio tinwini fry this morning!
When I picked up my breeding stock from Mark Denaro back in May of ’09, these fish were simply known as Danio sp. TW02. In November of 2009 they were properly named Danio tinwini after Mr. U Tin Win of the Hein Aquarium in Myanmar.
In the picture above, the fry are in one of my egg traps. The DIY on the trap is over at the Danionins site…
