Talk:Zebrafish
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I think i just saw my zebra danio (male) eat a neon tetra. This could be its second, since I lost another a week ago, plus a small zebra danio has gone missing. Does anyone know if this is common behaviour for a zebra danio? If so I might need to kill it to save my other fish.
-> Zebrafish do commonly eat other fish who are dead or even dying, but I've never seen one attack a healthy fish. I think the temperature range stated in the article is wrong - zebrafish prefer a range of about 24-28C, as far as I know. 28 is about optimal; 18 is too low. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.122.149.57 (talk • contribs) 12:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC-7)
This image claims these fish change color - has anyone observed that? Could information be added to the article? --70.112.222.14 19:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, they do (as do pretty much all fish), see chromatophore. I have added the image to the article. Rockpocket 07:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
My danio laid eggs.What shold I do?
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[edit] Suggest move to "zebrafish"
I suggest moving this page to zebrafish. Currently zebrafish is a disambiguation page with only two links: red lionfish and this page.
- The red lionfish only lives in Australia, and I believe it is known by several other common names.
- D. rerio is a both a popular aquarium fish worldwide and an important model organism. Even in academia, D. rerio seems to be mainly referred to as "zebrafish" (going by my own observations as an Australian genetics student).
Therefore I think most wikipedia users who search for "zebrafish" would be wanting this page, so we should send them here directly. I've put a disambig note at the top of this page which directs to the red lionfish page. I've temporarily moved the zebrafish disambig page to "zebrafish 2", but I still can't move this page to "zebrafish" because the old disambig page still exists as a redirect. I'm looking for an administrator who can help by deleting both the "zebrafish" and the "zebrafish 2" pages. I can then move this page and fix all the links over the weekend. Adrian J. Hunter 15:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Also WikiProject Fishes refers to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) for article names, which states that when a common name exists, it should be used for the article title. Adrian J. Hunter 06:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
I have never heard of a Zebra Danio eating another or any other spiecies of fish. But I know they nip alot, well it least mine have not showed any signs of eating onother besides for tail nipping.
[edit] for such a biologically important fish and fun aquaruim pet , i'd like to see some basic natural history
of the little bugger. what it eats, how long it lives. where it lays its eggs. mating behavior? interactions with other critters in its environment...Wikiskimmer 06:47, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Naming
Can someone explain why the fish is sometimes referred to as Brachydanio rerio, and why sometimes just Danio rerio? Can you add this to the page? Thanks MrPMonday (talk) 02:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Should a section "model organism for pathogenesis" be added? Taken from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18248169 with slight modification:
The successful zebrafish developmental model has now expanded to being used as a model for the analysis of host–pathogen interactions during infectious disease. Numerous pathogens have been demonstrated to infect zebrafish and new mechanisms of virulence, as well as host defense have been uncovered using this new model. Successful infection of zebrafish has been demonstrated using a variety of pathogens including the zoonotic fish pathogens Mycobacterium marinum, Edwardsiella tarda, Salmonella arizonae, Vibrio anguillarum, and Streptococcus iniae. Furthermore, infection of zebrafish has been successfully demonstrated with pathogens that are not known to infect fish such as Salmonella typhimurium, Bacillus subtillis, Escherichia coli, multiple species of Listeria, Streptococcus agalactiae (M.N. Neely and D.R. Runft, unpublished data) and Streptococcus pyogenes. Snakehead rhabdovirus, a virus that infects warm-water fish, was also used for zebrafish infection to analyze upregulation of multiple host proteins involved in the immune response.[1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZebrafishPathogenesis (talk • contribs) 06:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

