Re:By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may h...
by pvaldes on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:27PM
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They are very easy. I had some long time ago and they even lay eggs and breed in my aquarium, but is not my favourite kind of fish for a community aquarium. Having evolved in clean and rapid rivers in India they are fast and nervous. Always darting and ready to engulf any food scrap. Can be a real source of stress for the other tank inhabitants and also for the owner (all you see most of the time is a blur when you try to observe your fishes).
I wonder how they can pick up a male and two females in a larvae pool. The sexual dimorfism on young zebrafishes is close to inexistent.
I had breeded fishes more transparent that those larvae, but must admit that the macrophage video is very cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v1Nfun5PqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DB_Z0i5g_0
I don't know a lot about zebrafish (never did that postdoc), so i wasn't clear that larvae are a different stage to adults.