Breeding Zebra Danios

@Cheetah: Thank you! I completely forgot about that little fact, remember now reading that on another forum some few years ago, completely slipped my mind. thanks again. I have placed a perspex box inside my main tank, drilled a few holes and placed the females in there. I have been conditioning with frozen brine shrimp, blood worm and some of Prof Dirk's import dry food. The two females I have are nice and fat and sometimes I catch them just lying on the bottom of the box, should I be worried or are they just perhaps tired of swimming with such a big belly?? They have been this size since two weeks or so ago... yet no spawn. I am going to try again tonight/early tomorrow morning. Hoping there is some action this time around

 

Here is a couple of photos of my babies

 

Cool man

 

Very cool, Sicarius, could you see the eggs when they were scattered. I put my males and females together in the spawn tank and it seemed that they almost instantly started chasing each other and sort of dancing, the females would jiggle at a slight angle and then swim in a direction and the males would follow swiftly. I thought damn Ok this time I might have eggs...After about 1h30 to 2 hours I had a closer look and did not see eggs and they stopped this, what I thought to be spawning behavior, and just swam around like they would normally. The females did not look noticeably thinner. So I removed them and placed them back in the main tank. Cleaned out the spawning tank again washed everything and set it up again. Will try again in a week or so, I just don't understand this, it's like the females don't want to drop their eggs. Is it possible they are simply not ready? but then why all the action? or is it possible that they like physically might have issues dropping the eggs(that the problem is with the fish and not the environment it's in) maybe some epsom salts haha

 

Charlie... I will show you a tank with 1,000 eggs in it.... and... even for that matter... with a 1,000 freshly hatched fry.... and... you will not see one of them... if you do not know what to look for.... Once I show you one... you will see all of them... It sounds very much like your fish actually did spawn....

 

Cheetah I thought as much, but how much thinner does they females become? like the two females I have are quite fat and to my eye I did not notice a difference before the spawning action and after? Is this normal or is should it be easy to spot the difference? Damn...If they did spawn all of it went down the drain and I will be very bleak. So one can see the eggs with the naked eye?