Here in the USA people are breeding them. I think they are just so beautiful. I hope to build my first planted tank and first tank in decades in the Spring, health permitting. I really like dark water tanks. I’ve done hundreds of hours of research, but of course theory and practice are two different things! I have a big Catalpa tree in my backyard and after 20 years with no chemicals I feel confident that the poisons used by previous owners are gone, though I wouldn’t use the soil. So I have my own leaf source! Really enjoy your videos and have learned quite a bit from you.
Great footage! I have bred most the sundadanios thanks to the store the Wetspot. Even so, i had a hard time importing/buying them and faced 50% survival rates. However with the first one I bred (rubellus) was in blackwater with a ph of under 4.5! They lived in coffee basically. Also they wouldnt spawn in water under 26c. And if the lights were on over the tank. Indirect light and then daily squirting paramecium and infusoria in about 300ml of water. Also i noticed they didn't eat their own eggs out of the leaf litter very often. But will eat their young fry Feeding dry food... only powdered fish meal, as it's falling to the bottom, do they seem to eat for me
I wonder if the wholesalers that import cardinal tetras would take this same approach with these beautiful danios that there might be a better survival rate in those pet shops not using aquarium bred cardinals? All I ever see is shops with wild caught cardinals that are skinny and not doing well and they almost never survive even with the greatest care. Maybe the wholesalers don’t care and just want to make money.
This is amazing Chris the fish color changes from darker to lighter as they swim. I would love to see you breeding these nano fish and to also see the fry, Great video!
They are really beautiful fish, with a high level of energy. I keep mine in a 40l, half the tank is filled from the bottom with oak leaves, there are some floating plants to diffuse the light and of course some moss as well. A sponge filter gently filtrates the tank and I have a small bag of peat attached to the filter. It's proper blackwater and they are thriving for me. Mine will more than happily take crushed flake as well as dr. bassleer baby nano pellets from the surface as well as some artemia eggs, and it's fun to watch them dart up and down to feed. They also get frozen cyclops and some frozen black mosquito larvae. I am hoping to eventually breed them :D
Cheers from Chicago! I love these fish and i have a group doing fine. In the US, it's relatively easy to find these fish now - in green, blue and red morphs.
Once again a nice video with one of my favorite nano fish! Here in Sweden you do see them in the shops now and then, but as you said they are usually very emaciated and in bad condition! Once they are acclimatized to you water they are surprisingly hardy and can live for a long time!
Nice video, Chris. Very good advice from experience, and much appreciated. I don't keep any at the moment, but next time I see these fishes I will certainly buy some, now I know what to do. My water is naturally soft, and I can easily acidify it.
Very nice and educative video! I tried to keep Sundadanio Axelrodi twice and just like what you experienced, they all perished within a few days due to fin rots. Good to know they accept dried fish food. I might want to try to keep them again but this fish definitely belongs to the 'difficult' category. I think Boraras Brigittae is definitely way way easier to keep than Sundadanio Axelrodi, and way more friendly too. If not for their difficulty, I would really really love to keep Sundadanio Axelrodi. They are very very nice and stunning schooling fish!
Thank you for surely very nice video. I have been thinking of trying to keep this. I just setup a nano cube 30 tank on 1st dec. I have one r. Brigittae, last one after 3 years, and few neo caridinas. Plan to add more brigittae & Sunda danio A. How many can I add ? 10 each?
Hi Chris. I would like to ask some questions about the husbandry of these fish. Firstly do this fish fare well in a bigger setup with larger numbers and micro tankmates ? Secondly, because Sera baktopur isn’t available here so i wanted to ask do other meds like general cure, pimafix and melafix works ?
i have no experience with the ones you mention.....so maybe they work or maybe not. About the bigger setup..i think that it would be more difficult to monitor and also the feeding is more difficult there. I keep them in smaller tanks..i think that is better
I feed mine frozen daphnia and cyclops. If you crumble flakes in your fingers under the water they will take it. I use oak leaves and oak branches to replicate black water.
Hi Chris. How would I go about getting permission to use some of your photographs in a new ebook I am writing. Do you list them on Shutterstock or another photo-purchasing site? Cheers, Richard
We never had problems with them in our shop, keeping them on our tapwater(pH 7.4, GH 9, KH 5). Personaaly i was always surprised that the nanofish seems to be more hardy then a lot of bigger and nore common species. But i can only recommend the way you did it. And they are quite available these days.
in my view it depends from wher eyou get them and how the wholesalor treats them in the beginning. Mine are doing perfectly fine ...but it took a while
@@chrislukhaup I see you keep yours with neocaradina. May I ask how you manage hardness and ph? I have been looking for these fish for over a year and will be picking mine up next week. The pet store has them in quarantine now as they arrived a bit skinny. I have blackwater prepared in a seasoned tank, but my ph is 6.8 and TDS is 200 for the shrimp. I'm planning to drip acclimate, but wonder if that will be sufficient to allow them to adjust to the neo-friendly conditions!
@@anodyne.7024 I have kept and bred neocaridina shrimp in as low as a ph of 5.5. They won't breed very fast, but as long as you don't shock them, they are amazingly adaptable. Though it might be an idea to jump straight towards keeping caridina shrimp in such low ph instead.
Personally I wouldn´t keep them with Betta splendens as they come from different environments! Instead you could keep them with smaller bettas like Betta channoides and B. coccina etc. that comes from dark water!
The bright neon colour is already stunning but it changes to purplish blue when the fish move? That's just even prettier!
Here in the USA people are breeding them. I think they are just so beautiful. I hope to build my first planted tank and first tank in decades in the Spring, health permitting. I really like dark water tanks. I’ve done hundreds of hours of research, but of course theory and practice are two different things! I have a big Catalpa tree in my backyard and after 20 years with no chemicals I feel confident that the poisons used by previous owners are gone, though I wouldn’t use the soil. So I have my own leaf source! Really enjoy your videos and have learned quite a bit from you.
Great footage! I have bred most the sundadanios thanks to the store the Wetspot. Even so, i had a hard time importing/buying them and faced 50% survival rates.
However with the first one I bred (rubellus) was in blackwater with a ph of under 4.5! They lived in coffee basically. Also they wouldnt spawn in water under 26c. And if the lights were on over the tank. Indirect light and then daily squirting paramecium and infusoria in about 300ml of water.
Also i noticed they didn't eat their own eggs out of the leaf litter very often. But will eat their young fry
Feeding dry food... only powdered fish meal, as it's falling to the bottom, do they seem to eat for me
I wonder if the wholesalers that import cardinal tetras would take this same approach with these beautiful danios that there might be a better survival rate in those pet shops not using aquarium bred cardinals? All I ever see is shops with wild caught cardinals that are skinny and not doing well and they almost never survive even with the greatest care. Maybe the wholesalers don’t care and just want to make money.
I just got in an order on these .....i cant stop looking at them
This is amazing Chris the fish color changes from darker to lighter as they swim. I would love to see you breeding these nano fish and to also see the fry, Great video!
They are really beautiful fish, with a high level of energy. I keep mine in a 40l, half the tank is filled from the bottom with oak leaves, there are some floating plants to diffuse the light and of course some moss as well. A sponge filter gently filtrates the tank and I have a small bag of peat attached to the filter. It's proper blackwater and they are thriving for me. Mine will more than happily take crushed flake as well as dr. bassleer baby nano pellets from the surface as well as some artemia eggs, and it's fun to watch them dart up and down to feed. They also get frozen cyclops and some frozen black mosquito larvae. I am hoping to eventually breed them :D
Beautiful little fish and interesting information, Thanks for sharing Chris.
Amazing explaination and extreamly informative.. very good one of my favorite danios..beautiful..thank you very much.
Cheers from Chicago! I love these fish and i have a group doing fine. In the US, it's relatively easy to find these fish now - in green, blue and red morphs.
Wow, Chris. These are very beautiful! Thank you for the very detailed process to get them stable in your tank.
Once again a nice video with one of my favorite nano fish! Here in Sweden you do see them in the shops now and then, but as you said they are usually very emaciated and in bad condition! Once they are acclimatized to you water they are surprisingly hardy and can live for a long time!
Nice video, Chris. Very good advice from experience, and much appreciated. I don't keep any at the moment, but next time I see these fishes I will certainly buy some, now I know what to do. My water is naturally soft, and I can easily acidify it.
Very nice and educative video! I tried to keep Sundadanio Axelrodi twice and just like what you experienced, they all perished within a few days due to fin rots. Good to know they accept dried fish food. I might want to try to keep them again but this fish definitely belongs to the 'difficult' category. I think Boraras Brigittae is definitely way way easier to keep than Sundadanio Axelrodi, and way more friendly too. If not for their difficulty, I would really really love to keep Sundadanio Axelrodi. They are very very nice and stunning schooling fish!
i had the same problem..but i learned out of it. Now they are doing well.
Beautiful!
Thank you for surely very nice video. I have been thinking of trying to keep this. I just setup a nano cube 30 tank on 1st dec. I have one r. Brigittae, last one after 3 years, and few neo caridinas.
Plan to add more brigittae & Sunda danio A. How many can I add ? 10 each?
Beautiful little fish
Hi Chris. I would like to ask some questions about the husbandry of these fish. Firstly do this fish fare well in a bigger setup with larger numbers and micro tankmates ? Secondly, because Sera baktopur isn’t available here so i wanted to ask do other meds like general cure, pimafix and melafix works ?
i have no experience with the ones you mention.....so maybe they work or maybe not. About the bigger setup..i think that it would be more difficult to monitor and also the feeding is more difficult there. I keep them in smaller tanks..i think that is better
@@chrislukhaup hmm… i have kept boraras species in my “bigger” tank and they seem to do fine. Maybe they’re not as fragile ?
Ho, nice video! Can you tell me what ph do you have? And did you breed ?
I feed mine frozen daphnia and cyclops. If you crumble flakes in your fingers under the water they will take it. I use oak leaves and oak branches to replicate black water.
Thanx a lot for your info...i will try that today.
Thanks so much Chris. So if most of the US has hard water with a high PH would it be nearly impossible to keep them successfully?
You can collect rainwater and use catappa leaves to soften the water and lower the pH!
Hi Chris. How would I go about getting permission to use some of your photographs in a new ebook I am writing. Do you list them on Shutterstock or another photo-purchasing site? Cheers, Richard
I have about 30 shrimp. Do you think adding these guys will act like dither fish? Or am I better off going more shrimp?
We never had problems with them in our shop, keeping them on our tapwater(pH 7.4, GH 9, KH 5). Personaaly i was always surprised that the nanofish seems to be more hardy then a lot of bigger and nore common species. But i can only recommend the way you did it. And they are quite available these days.
in my view it depends from wher eyou get them and how the wholesalor treats them in the beginning. Mine are doing perfectly fine ...but it took a while
@@chrislukhaup I see you keep yours with neocaradina. May I ask how you manage hardness and ph? I have been looking for these fish for over a year and will be picking mine up next week. The pet store has them in quarantine now as they arrived a bit skinny. I have blackwater prepared in a seasoned tank, but my ph is 6.8 and TDS is 200 for the shrimp. I'm planning to drip acclimate, but wonder if that will be sufficient to allow them to adjust to the neo-friendly conditions!
@@anodyne.7024 I have kept and bred neocaridina shrimp in as low as a ph of 5.5. They won't breed very fast, but as long as you don't shock them, they are amazingly adaptable. Though it might be an idea to jump straight towards keeping caridina shrimp in such low ph instead.
BEAUTIFUL FISH :)
PERHAPS I'LL GROW THAT DANIO-SP IN THE FUTURE :)
THANK YOU FOR SHARING :)
THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
Is the sundanio Axelrodi the same as the Sundadanio goblinus?
No..that is?a different species
@chrislukhaup ok, thank you because I'm trying to get some of these and they were trying to sell them as the Axelrodi. Seems like they had less color
can they be tank mates with 1 male betta fish?
i had them for a while with a betta couple..no problem
Personally I wouldn´t keep them with Betta splendens as they come from different environments! Instead you could keep them with smaller bettas like Betta channoides and B. coccina etc. that comes from dark water!
Here in Toronto, Canada, they are rare and expensive. This is my dream fish.
They school really well in larger groups.
Cheap as anything here in Singapore....
do you have the different species of Sundadanio there as well ?
@@chrislukhaupSingapore is very close to where we live
And I also sell this fish Chris come here Chris
I will be happy to guide you