Talk:Zebrafish
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I think i just saw my zebra danio (male) eat a neon tetra. This could be its second, since I lost another a week ago, plus a small zebra danio has gone missing. Does anyone know if this is common behaviour for a zebra danio? If so I might need to kill it to save my other fish.
-> Zebrafish do commonly eat other fish who are dead or even dying, but I've never seen one attack a healthy fish. I think the temperature range stated in the article is wrong - zebrafish prefer a range of about 24-28C, as far as I know. 28 is about optimal; 18 is too low. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.122.149.57 (talk • contribs) 12:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC-7)
This image claims these fish change color - has anyone observed that? Could information be added to the article? --70.112.222.14 19:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, they do (as do pretty much all fish), see chromatophore. I have added the image to the article. Rockpocket 07:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
My danio laid eggs.What shold I do?
[edit] Suggest move to "zebrafish"
I suggest moving this page to zebrafish. Currently zebrafish is a disambiguation page with only two links: red lionfish and this page.
- The red lionfish only lives in Australia, and I believe it is known by several other common names.
- D. rerio is a both a popular aquarium fish worldwide and an important model organism. Even in academia, D. rerio seems to be mainly referred to as "zebrafish" (going by my own observations as an Australian genetics student).
Therefore I think most wikipedia users who search for "zebrafish" would be wanting this page, so we should send them here directly. I've put a disambig note at the top of this page which directs to the red lionfish page. I've temporarily moved the zebrafish disambig page to "zebrafish 2", but I still can't move this page to "zebrafish" because the old disambig page still exists as a redirect. I'm looking for an administrator who can help by deleting both the "zebrafish" and the "zebrafish 2" pages. I can then move this page and fix all the links over the weekend. Adrian J. Hunter 15:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Also WikiProject Fishes refers to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) for article names, which states that when a common name exists, it should be used for the article title. Adrian J. Hunter 06:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
I have never heard of a Zebra Danio eating another or any other spiecies of fish. But I know they nip alot, well it least mine have not showed any signs of eating onother besides for tail nipping.
