Fish Danio love the aquarists around the world. And this is not surprising - with its external attractiveness and decorativeness, Danio is absolutely unpretentious, even a newcomer can care for her. From our article, you will learn what kind of fish are species, how to choose them correctly, as well as all the nuances of the content of fishing at home.
Danio Roerio and its varieties
Most often in the aquariums you can meet Danio-Roerio or Last Danio. For the first time, it was described in 1822, when the natural features of the colonies of England were studied in the territories of modern Pakistan and India. Fish Danio lived in the rivers of these countries, and their area was distributed to the southeast of Asia - to Myanmar. Danio-Roerio prefers shallow reservoirs: lower rivers, ducts, ponds and even grooves. In the rainy season, these fish are swimming on flooded rice fields, they spawn there, and after that, together with young people return to the familiar habitat.
Exterior Danio-Roerio: small (up to 7 cm long) Fish having a narrow caller, as if compressed on the sides. Classic Roerio Coloring is a longitudinal ink blue stripes that are capable of tail and anal fins on silver or light yellow background. Danio-Roerio has many varieties derived from both natural and artificial way. What is interesting, representatives of these subspecies are capable of interspecific crossing, which contributes to the birth of unique offspring and blurring the breed boundaries.
We list the most famous varieties of Danio-Roerio.
- Wellegal. Characteristic feature are semi-shaped side, abdominal and dorsal fins.
- Cherry. In the type of color, it does not differ from the classic Danio-Roerio, but it was allocated to a separate subspecies for a special color gamut - dark purple stripes on the pinkish of Taurus.
- Leopard. From the title it is clear that the stains came to replace the strips. The general background is greenish-pearl, specks dark, fins are also flying.
- Albino. It is characterized by a bright pink color of the carcass and red eyes.
- Glofish (Glofish). This subspecies deserves that it is described in more detail. The fact is that in itself the concept of Glofish applies not only to Danio - this is a generalized, which received an international patent, the commercial name of genetically modified aquarium fish with a fluorescent genome introduced in them, taken from corals and jellyfish. So ordinary fish mills are glowing.
Danio-Roerio was pioneers in this experiment. Holders of coral genome - RFP - with UV irradiation, they exude neon red light, those who introduced the jellyfish gene (GFP) - green. The individuals, which "noticed" both genome, glow yellow.
The most popular color Danio Glofish - Salad Electric Green, Orange Sunburst Orange, blue with blue Cosmic Blue, as well as a stunning Pink Galactic Purple.
Other aquarium species
In addition to Danio Roerio, there are other interesting varieties of this cute aquarium fish. Let's get acquainted with them.Pearl
It has an elongated body, flatten on the sides, about 6 cm long. On the lips, you can consider 2 pairs of small mustache. Color fish silver-blue or greenish-pearl. From the tail fin practically to the middle of the body, a light-pink wedge-shaped strip with a blue edge is emerging. The younger of the pearl Danio, the more bright it will be this pattern. For old individuals, he, on the contrary, pale and maybe, in general, disappear.
Burmese
Not too prominent representative Danio. Aquarium lovers learned about it only in 2005, although the subspecies were described in 1937. There is no definite pattern on TV, scales depending on the lighting can be blurred with silver, golden and even steel color.
A distinctive feature of the Burmese Danio is to jump, so it is necessary to cover the container with these fish glass lid, so that they did not jump out of the water.
Malabari (Devano)
It has an interesting color: greenish spin, sides and abdomen silver-green, on the body there are longitudinal stripes of bright turquoise color, bordered orange. Closer to the tailflower, these strips merge. Finns Danio Devano can be both yellowish gray and red-orange.
Bengal
This representative has a back higher than other varieties of Danio, so it seems more rounded. Bengal color is as follows: a golden shade is going on top, smoothly turning into a bluish-green, and then - again in the golden. From the tail to the middle of the carcas, the yellow "beam" stretches, which replaced by the accumulation of shapeless specks.
Whiskered
The name speaks for itself: the characteristic feature of the Usatoy Danio is the elongated mustache hanging from the bottom lip. The color of this fish is rather dull: silver-pearly background, on which barely noticeable stripes and specks are visible. Near the gormal lid there is a single dark stain of the round shape. The size of the sucked Danio is from 6 to 13 cm.
Point (black-eyed)
Two variations of the name of this species give us an idea of the appearance of the fishing: on its sides there are black stripes that separate the white side line, and a series of black spots take place in parallel.
Erythromicron (Emerald)
Very interesting representative. His "Lithium" is not longitudinal, but transverse. Strips are painted in emerald blue and orange-golden. Abdominal, anal fins, as well as "broths" - red. Based on the tail there is a bright black spot.
Orange-eyed
It is logical to assume that fins are played in its appearance, the fins play on which orange stripes clearly appear. They are on the body, alternating with dark blue.
Pink
The color of this Danio is simply unrealistic beautiful. By the way, breeders took part in the breed, which were able to artificially achieve such a figure of color - in the wild, the pink Danio looks more modest.
The color of the representative varies from coral to the shade of Fuchsia (Special feed can affect its intensity). On the sides there are thin white longitudinal stripes, fins are also striped, but transparent.
Blue
And again, we have a fish hitting with your bright color. The body of the "Electric" color crosses the gold stripes passing along the sides of the gills and to the tail. The eyes are radiant, golden. Transparent fins, have a yellowish-green tide.
It is now we are talking about males - the female Danio is much more modest, they are grayish blue with barely noticeable stripes on the sides.
Margaritatus
Another name is a microrasta galaxy. It is easy to understand why she was so talked, only looking at her color: according to the sero-green background the Taurus chaotic scattered "stars" - bright yellow spots. The abdomen of the Galaxy orange-red, the strips of the same color are available on fins.
Hopra (Firefly)
Baby among Danio - just 3 cm long! Tints on the body of this Danio form overflow from turquoise to orange and from gold to silver. On the sides are visible transverse strips.
Golden Clace (Tinvini)
Another miniature representative of Danio - its growth is 2-3 cm. Tinvini's color is a mass of black spots of different sizes concluded in gold "rims". There are also specks on transparent fins.
Gates.
Completes the story about the varieties of Danio Fish, which was previously mistaken to the rules, and gave her the name of the Golden Rab. Danio Gates is very small, up to 2 cm, so it is not "lost" among the larger varieties of fish, they are better to settle in the Nanoachvarium stink at 8-12 individuals. Appearance: a narrow thin body, big eyes, color - golden, from the tail to the middle of the carcas runs a thin turquoise line.
How to choose?
To the choice of residents for his aquarium, it is worth it with all responsibility - a lot of cases are known when an illiterate approach once dismissed the desire for a newcomer to engage in aquarium, since the pets did not multiply and quickly. So what nuances should be considered when choosing Danio - let's understand.
- Danio - Staya Fish. Alone, she will not live. Therefore, when filling out your aquarium, choose a minimum of 6 Danio.
- Filling your reservoir underwater plants, make sure that it remains enough space for maneuvering. Danio is very mobile, and they love to swim and frolic in the upper level of the aquarium - try so that no floating leaves interfere with them.
- If your choice fell on a weathered Danio, do not press them with aggressive fish (in particular, barbuses) that love to emblorict their beautiful fins.
- Some varieties of Danio are prone to jumped out of the aquarium, so take care that the capacity is covered with glass.
- Now as for feeding. In principle, these fish are omnivores and love both alive and dried, as well as frozen food. But the best solution will be food in the form of flakes, which are not drown, and remain in the trough - from there, Danio will be happy to "snatch".
- And now let's talk about the "neighbors". If you are attracted to the interspecific aquarium, and you have chosen a few Danio as inhabitants, then you can safely hide neon, tetre, pupils, corridors, thorns, minorors and, of course, other Danio.
But any cigal, like goldfish, can count by Danio prey, and then soon you will be surprised to find their complete absence in the aquarium.
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