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Giant Danio
Devario aequipinnatus
Family: Cyprinidae
📍 India, Nepal & Bangladesh
The giant danio lives up to its name among danios, reaching up to 10 cm. It is a fast, active schooling fish with vivid blue-yellow horizontal stripes. Peaceful with most community fish but may outcompete slow or small tankmates for food.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – flake, pellets, daphnia, bloodworms, brine shrimp
- lifespan
- 5–7 years
- max size
- 10 cm (4 in)
- tank size
- 30 gallons minimum
- school size
- 6+
- temperament
- Peaceful, very active
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.0–8.0
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 5–19 dGH
- temperature
- 68–77°F (20–25°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
64°F — 84°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Jun high)