Aggressive fat fish at dinner time

Thanks for the help. How do you tell the sex of danios? Could her "gut"
be eggs? I don't plan on breeding them right now, but do I need to do
anything to help/protect her? Also, I do have one fish that has the
clamped top and bottom fins. But he has been like that since I got him.
He schools and interacts with the others, and he is really active at
dinner time, but most of the time he just chills in different areas of
the tank. Should I do anything, or is he just a depressive fish? Thanks
for the advice.

Travis

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Thanks for the help. How do you tell the sex of danios? Could her "gut"
be eggs? I don't plan on breeding them right now, but do I need to do
anything to help/protect her? Also, I do have one fish that has the
clamped top and bottom fins. But he has been like that since I got him.
He schools and interacts with the others, and he is really active at
dinner time, but most of the time he just chills in different areas of
the tank. Should I do anything, or is he just a depressive fish? Thanks
for the advice.

Travis


Not sure about the depressive fish. Maybe the others are long fin, and he's
a short fin variety ? But sexing Danios is fairly easy. Males are slimmer,
females have a fuller belly. Females will become "fat" as they get laden
with eggs. Males may take on a brown or gold tinge when they are ready to
breed. They are probably breeding already (Do you ever see two fish swimming
fast in very tight circles ?). Danios (and any other fish in the tank) will
eat the eggs, hence no babies.

HTH

Rich

Thanks for the info. I did notice some activity like you mentioned,
with them swimming in circles. If they are mating that would be great,
since in the future I would like to try breeding them. Please take a
look at my new thread about my danio and plico possibly being sick. I
decided, since the topic was different, I should start a new thread
instead of changing this one. Thanks everyone for all the help. I'm
still learning, so every little tip helps.

Travis