Dario hysginon
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January 27, 2012 at 9:26 pm #346957
oakenParticipantNice video of a really nice tank btw!
January 27, 2012 at 11:10 pm #346961
BigTomParticipantCheers oaken, will keep thread updated.
January 31, 2012 at 3:49 pm #346996
MattKeymasterBeen trying to see this video for 3 days but can’t view from work and not really been at home. Priority for tonight!
January 31, 2012 at 10:55 pm #347001
MattKeymasterLovely.
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February 1, 2012 at 10:34 am #347006
BigTomParticipantYeah both males have been showing a certain amount of interest in the female, not really chasing her too much so far, just swimming up and displaying a bit.
July 6, 2012 at 4:17 pm #348401
BigTomParticipantJust a little update on these guys. I moved them across to the big tank, and haven barely seen them since, except to find one of the smaller ones dead a few weeks later, which wasn’t very promising.
However, I just got a good look at what I initially thought were a couple of Danio erythromicron fry and one of them is definitely a Dario, so it looks like they’ve bred.
For the record – pH 7.4, TDS 230-280ppm, 22-24 degrees.
September 10, 2012 at 9:16 am #348841
MattKeymasterThe following comment is awaiting approval on the species profile – can anyone confirm or deny this to be true?
‘I find this Dario species to be much easier to feed, readily accepting pellets and fine flake foods as well as gel diets. They are also considerably easier to sex, and breed readily when provided with some leaf litter.’
September 11, 2012 at 4:28 pm #348861
BigTomParticipantMine took flake and pellet right from the start, so I can definitely corroborate that. Sexing via body shape is fairly doable once you get your eye in. No idea about the importance of leaf litter for breeding as I never saw mine at any stage of the breeding process.
September 11, 2012 at 5:44 pm #348863
oakenParticipant@Matt said:
The following comment is awaiting approval on the species profile – can anyone confirm or deny this to be true?‘I find this Dario species to be much easier to feed, readily accepting pellets and fine flake foods as well as gel diets. They are also considerably easier to sex, and breed readily when provided with some leaf litter.’
I too found D. hysginon to be easier to feed than D. dario. They did eat dry foods from the start, no idea what gel diets are though? About sexing, D. dario is in my experience definitely the easier fish to sex. Dario dario can simply be sexed by shining on them with a flashlight, if the fish got red stripes (even the faintest) it’s a male, while in D. hysginon you can pretty much only go by body shape if the fish hasn’t coloured up (which they won’t if you have several males in a tank, in my case it was about 10 males in a rather small tank though).
I wouldn’t see any reason why leaf litter would be required other than to give the female some cover.
September 12, 2012 at 8:32 am #348869
MattKeymasterOk thanks you two, will approve comment now.
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