In nature, this species of fish is found in Africa and South Asia. Aquarium fish barbs are very mobile and, as a rule, small (4-6 cm). Fish are quite unpretentious. The answer to the question, how many live barbs, depends on your attitude towards them - with good care the fish can live up to 5 years. Now consider in more detail several important points of care for these fish.
Breeding of barbs
The breeding of barbs will not be difficult even for a beginner aquarist. For their maintenance, a frame or all-glass aquarium is suitable. To keep fish in the aquarium, you do not need to add soil, but during spawning necessarily lay the bottom of the aquarium with plants or a grid. Completely drain and clean water in the aquarium is not necessary, it is enough to replace about 30%.
Barnes producers before spawning must necessarily be kept separately. Before spawning, the abdomen of the female is very clearly visible. Be sure to place the spawning place in such a way that light falls on it. In the evening, transplant manufacturers - already in the morning with the first rays of the sun will spawn.
For one incubation the female sweeps out about a hundred eggs. After the spawning is complete, fish must be transplanted from the caviar, otherwise they will just eat offspring.
With whom do barbs coexist?
Aquarium fish barbs are pretty cocky and calm neighbors simply will not be able to bear their temperament. The most successful option is to combine several different kinds of barbs. Successful will be the neighborhood with swordsmen, gurus, pecilia, a clownfish.
If you plant an aquarium fish with long fins or mustaches, they can not live peacefully. Guppies, Petushki or Goldfish will eventually "get a little bit", as barbs like to periodically bite their neighbors.
Varieties of barbs
There are so many kinds of these wonderful and active fish. Consider a few of the most interesting and rare of them:
- Green barbs. This is a fairly large species in natural conditions, but the aquarium does not reach more than 9cm. Enough peace-loving fish. If neighbors of the same size with them, easily get along with even the quiet inhabitants.
- Barbus oligoelepsis. Very small size (about 5cm). The fish has beautiful and unusual scales of mother-of-pearl color and overflows with all the colors of the rainbow. Fishes have beautiful fins of bright red color with a dark fringing.
- Shark barbs. This species is very difficult to breed in an aquarium even to experienced specialists. Usually the fish reaches a fairly large size, so the aquarium for it needs a volume of about 200 liters. For her, you can only populate predatory and fairly large neighbors.
- Cherry barbeque. Very small species, one of the most peace-loving and barely noticeable. They get on well with other peaceful neighbors, live in small flocks. This species lacks cannibalism, fries develop fairly quickly and evenly.
- Barbus filamentosus. It is considered a peaceful inhabitant of the aquarium. Reproduction is a group, for which a fairly large spawning is needed. Vegetation in the aquarium never touches.
Diseases of barbs
Even if you carefully care for the aquarium and fish, you probably will not be able to avoid diseases. Most often it is the wrong care or negligence of the owner leads to the onset of the disease of the barby.
The most common of these fish is rubella. Source of infection - sick fish and their secretions. This can happen if you have poorly disinfected your inventory to care for the aquarium.
Often barbs suffer from whiteness. In case of illness, the organs of balance and coordination are disturbed, skin integuments are affected. The source of infection is the same as in the first case. Fish can be treated with bleach in this case, and the aquarium itself should be treated with disinfectants.