Danio choprae out of the pond

[jjohnwm]

They come from Burma. They come from much warmer waters than that.

The members posting above have kept them successfully at cooler temperature. That is not 'The natural water temperature range that these fish are found'.

Wouldn't there be some higher-altitude waters in Burma that would normally display lower temperatures? Are these fish perhaps found in cooler mountain streams? I'm not saying that they are, I have no idea, but there are many fish species that inhabit cooler waters than others at the same latitudes simply by living further up the mountain slopes.

Looking at those lovely fish in the original post, I'd be hard-pressed to say that they are anything other than perfectly healthy, rather than temperature-stressed.

 

[Morti]

Midwater I am just going by seriously fish which records natural water parameters https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/celestichthys-choprae/

From some research I was doing on badis kyar https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/badis-kyar/ which is found in the same area and it's also home to pearl danios https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/brachydanio-albolineata/
you can see they all have the same temperature range

 

[Midwater]

Wouldn't there be some higher-altitude waters in Burma that would normally display lower temperatures? Are these fish perhaps found in cooler mountain streams?

Quite possibly. The north of Burma does have some high mountains, and there are a myriad of mountain streams. I have been in the mountains of eastern Burma.

I don't think it would get too much cooler though. Here I am in the North of Thailand, it is the wet season, and the ground temperature is still high from the hot season. The (edge of the) ping river two days ago was 32C. (It didn't half rain last night.)

I have heard (never seen) that it can snow (rarely) on the top of some of the highest mountains in the North of Burma. So it is possible that some remote streams at some times do have a lower - lower end of the temperature range. But the high end, and the mean would still be similar to here.

I'd be hard-pressed to say that they are anything other than perfectly healthy, rather than temperature-stressed.

They do look good.

I am just going by seriously fish

I refer to that site often. It is very good, but not always correct. I have found discrepancies with other local fish too.

It would be impossible for the curator to have verified all the fish profiles.

 

[Friller2009]

My daughter just got some of those. Didn’t realize they can handle the cold. What’s the coldest your water temps got during the 5 years you had them?

Don't know sorry. Probably wouldn't fair too well outside in Europe and most of the U.S. Coldest water temp I've had was 9 and that was in a freak cold snap. Winter temp averages between 14-18 depending on the depth of the water and size of pond, as well as the day.

 

[Morti]

These are a common species in Europe and often sold in the temperate section with other danio species. When I kept them they were in a tank with a minimum temperature of 22c and they thrived but when the temperature naturally rose in the summer, they became very manic and a bit of a pain. They were very long lived at the cooler temperature, 7-8 years or so.