Danio margaritatus (formerly known as Celestichthys margaritatus)

[hwchoy]

heads up! another hundred pieces just arrived at Eco Culture. Rush if you want them!



here are my updated pix…

male



female

[Quixotic]

Choy, what are you feeding them till they get round round fat fat?

[hwchoy]

tetra flakes

[Quixotic]

Do your fishes look emaciated when you first got them? So far, a lot of them look rather thin, but they are at least taking the tetra flakes.

I've gotten 20 of them!

[valice]

bred? will have to tan ku ku (wait long long).

According to Practical Fishkeeping the magazine, the Bolton Museum Aquarium just managed to breed them. More details and an in-depth article on the species follow in the December 2006 issue of PFK.

[hwchoy]

last I heard they have spawning and some hatchlings, but they still weren't sure as most eggs taking too long to hatch.

[Ah_ZhaN]

Hi folks, anyone feed live food such as daphnia, brine shrimps and tubifex worms to their 'galaxy' ?

[Quixotic]

I am feeding live tubifex and flakes. They go crazy over live tubifex. Tried frozen dapnia but they didn't like it one single bit.

[percy]

i have fed them with live daphnia and brine shrimp before. they seem to like it. no problem feeding them.

[freezze]

are they shy in nature? saw them at the colorful fishshop at thomson last week.. quite expensive..

[valice]

are they shy in nature? saw them at the colorful fishshop at thomson last week.. quite expensive..

Let them fight out a hierachy and the dominant one will come out while the submissive one will hide abit...

And wild and beautiful fishes always come at a price...
Hope the shops don't start a price war...

[vinccc2003]

Mine is the strongest survive...loser eventually xxx

[Quixotic]

What do you mean by that? Do you mean that the loser actually ended up dead?

Hmm... mine loves to spar with one another, ending possibly with torn fins et al but no fatality whatsoever. In fact, there isn't just one dominant male but several in the tank.

[vinccc2003]

Maybe your tank is bigger than mine. The one that survive is the most beautiful and the fattest.

[valice]

I think we encountering the same situation... Small tank and only the most colourful and fattest surviving... And teh female of course... The other males are biten to submission...

[Quixotic]

Interesting, perhaps an anomaly rather than the norm?

I kept some in a 3ft community tank and some in a 1ft cube on their own. Didn't noticed anything unusual except for a few which died due to poor health. And I am sure I have a number of males in each tank.

I have more than 10 in each of the tanks, so perhaps this helps in spreading the aggression? I will spend more time monitoring them out of curiousity.

Another interesting thing that I noticed for my case is that, my males are much larger than my females.

Edit: I just thought of something though. Could it be that the male is in spawning mood? Though it is not known if this is the case for this fish, spawning could be a trigger to acertain its success in the tank.

[Ibn]

Didn't have any problems with aggression, but maybe the numbers that I kept for awhile was a bit high where the aggression was dispersed.

I had 100 of them in a 20 gallon tank. Two of them ended up with some absolutely amazing coloration.

[plumboy21]

Here's one of mine!! From C328!

[ranmasatome]

This fish is starting to sprout up everywhere... even here in japan.. i went to the shops last night and it was there in the shop... cost is something like $1x dollars for one.

[Justikanz]

Dear all, there is another thread on these little galaxies in AquaTalk: http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=23761

Please use that thread for discussion on casual comments/discussions on where to buy etc... Hopefully, we can use this thread to discuss on the behaviour/habitat/feeding etc of this fish. Thank you.