On (17 Jul 96) Adrian Worley Rambled On  To Linda Watson...
 AW> Hi Linda,
 LW> We have Neon, Zebra, Catfish, and another cleaning
 LW> type fish in our tank. Every time I buy new Neon's
 LW> which is what I prefer the Zebra attack them and I
 LW> always lose a few.  Do I guess corectly that these
 LW> two are not compatible.
 AW> I have read many times that zebra danios, (I assume you mean zebra
 AW> danios), are peaceful community fish.
     On the most part they are, but the zebras have a greater tendency
     to fin nip then the other danios, a nip can seem like a attack, and
     it might be, since neons and Danios like the top level
     a  bigger zebra danio may feel the neons in 'Its" territory.
 AW> I have kept fish now for 35 years and have ALWAYS found zebra danios
 AW> to be fin nippers. I've tried keeping them in shoals, I've tried odd
 AW> pairs. Nothing really seems to work. I don't keep them with slow
 AW> moving fish or fish with flowing fins, (which tend to be slow anyway).
     You got the years on me ;-)  only about 22 here, and I agree
     on the fin nipping, I prefer the pearl/spotted over zebras,
     I once got tired of one zebra which was a bad nipper,
     and so moved it in with a Jack Dempsey ;-)))))))
     Sometimes I wonder about some of the writers of some tropical fish
     books.
 
 
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