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Ok my question has been answered. They are tiger barbs. Their markings are clearly visible. Thanks to everyone who had an input. Day 14

Nature is amazing

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Thanks for that. Have bred many batches of danios with great success so the barb process is similar. It was a bare bottom tank but I use a basket well off the bottom for the eggs to drop through. However after the first night spawning (I like to leave them in for two nights) the male somehow got past the basket so I can only assume he had a great feed. Today is day 12 so I expected them to be a little bigger. But I think I can see that they are taking more shape of a barb and not a danio. Plus the behavior of these fry is very different to that of the danios. These fry are extremely timid and although free swimming will hide most of the time. Typically behavior of a barb. Not worried about the quantity of this spawn as it was the first time and now the female is back in a recovery tank she has fattened up nicely. So I will go again in a few days by isolating her and feed bbs for two weeks and then try again.

I did use the same tank with a 50%water change. So the tank continued to have water but the spawning mop was removed from the danios and although it was out of the water it may have had a small amount of moisture in the middle before placing in with the barbs. It was about 5 days between spawning. It was about 4 days after removing the barbs I noticed one fry and over the next 3 day an additional 18 fry were visible. Which ever fry they are it is a very strange hatching rate which I have no answer for. All other hatching are typically 2-3 days. My guess would be they are barbs logically but I guess I will have to wait to see. Thanks for your imput. Sorry about the images but I only have an iPhone 14 and the fry hide at the back of the tank.

Initially I thought they must be tiger barbs but as time goes on I think they are danios. If they are I’m am mind blown that they stayed alive long enough to hatch.

Orange color is bbs.

Hi guys new here. I have a really weird question. About 15 days ago I spawned a batch of zebra danio using a spawning mop and a very small Val plant in a terracotta pot. Very successful with 280 fry now doing extremely well. Here is the weird question. 7 days ago I put two tiger barbs together after 2 weeks of conditioning separately and I used the same spawning mop as I used for the danios. Thing is the barbs spawning was a disaster as it was their first time but 3 days after removing the barbs I have 6 fry. They are now 5 days old and are so small I am sure there is no way they are barbs. They are just starting to free swim but still stick to the glass most of the time. Is it possible for the danio eggs to lay dormant until they were put back into the water. Is that how it happens in the wild if the water supply dries up and then the rains come. Hope someone can shed some light on this or I am going to have to wait a month to find out the answer.