Post by MADMIKE on Sept 26, 2006 16:30:36 GMT -5
Rosy Barb Factoids
Origin India
Maximum Size Four inches +
Housing Longer the better
Security Not a hider but likes plants
Temperature Room temperature fine
Attitude Always active. Good in community tanks.
Sexual Differences Males more colorful
Foods Not the least bit picky.
Water Adaptable. Needs clean water though.
Water Conditions: Not particularly affected by pH or hardness, rosy barbs do well in any clean water. They do like a teasthingy of salt per gallon but will tolerate much more.
Appeal: You couldn’t ask for an easier fish to keep. Rosy barbs never hide and rarely pester other fishes too big to swallow.
Size: You usually see rosy barbs on the market at 1.5 to 2 inches. We’ve seen them grow to four inches -- occasionally larger.
Diseases: Like most barbs, rosy barbs can catch velvet – a nasty parasite much harder to cure than ich. You treat it the same way but it takes longer to cure. Keep your water clean and add salt to help prevent velvet.
Great Tankmates: Rosy barbs mix well with typical fishes that “fit” best in 20-gallon tanks – swordtails <livebearer,%20swords.htm>, gouramis <Gourami,%20Pearl.htm>, and angels <Cichlid,%20Angelfish%20I.htm> as well as many of the predator fish that would swallow smaller fishes (knifefish <Knife,%20Black%20Ghost.htm>, ropefish <Oddball,%20Ropefish.htm>, and many American cichlids <Cichlid,%20Convicts.htm>).
Foods: If any other fish will eat your choice of food, so will they – and then some. Of course they love live and frozen as well as flakes and pellets. Rosy barbs respond very well to color foods and foods with vegetable matter.
Breeding: Not particularly hard to breed, rosy barbs breed like many other barbs – in groups, usually with two males per female. Condition the sexes separately till the females plump up with eggs. Put the parents together in a tank with large gravel or marbles on the bottom and bushy plants in one end of the tank. Your barbs will usually breed the next morning. Take them out as soon as they start eating their eggs. Barbs ignore their eggs except when they’re hungry -- which, unfortunately, is most of the time..
Fry Food. You’ll need to feed your baby rosy barbs infusoria <Live%20Food,%20Infusoria.htm>. Have these cultures going long before you attempt the breeding process. Your breeding success depends upon your infusoria cultures.
Origin India
Maximum Size Four inches +
Housing Longer the better
Security Not a hider but likes plants
Temperature Room temperature fine
Attitude Always active. Good in community tanks.
Sexual Differences Males more colorful
Foods Not the least bit picky.
Water Adaptable. Needs clean water though.
Water Conditions: Not particularly affected by pH or hardness, rosy barbs do well in any clean water. They do like a teasthingy of salt per gallon but will tolerate much more.
Appeal: You couldn’t ask for an easier fish to keep. Rosy barbs never hide and rarely pester other fishes too big to swallow.
Size: You usually see rosy barbs on the market at 1.5 to 2 inches. We’ve seen them grow to four inches -- occasionally larger.
Diseases: Like most barbs, rosy barbs can catch velvet – a nasty parasite much harder to cure than ich. You treat it the same way but it takes longer to cure. Keep your water clean and add salt to help prevent velvet.
Great Tankmates: Rosy barbs mix well with typical fishes that “fit” best in 20-gallon tanks – swordtails <livebearer,%20swords.htm>, gouramis <Gourami,%20Pearl.htm>, and angels <Cichlid,%20Angelfish%20I.htm> as well as many of the predator fish that would swallow smaller fishes (knifefish <Knife,%20Black%20Ghost.htm>, ropefish <Oddball,%20Ropefish.htm>, and many American cichlids <Cichlid,%20Convicts.htm>).
Foods: If any other fish will eat your choice of food, so will they – and then some. Of course they love live and frozen as well as flakes and pellets. Rosy barbs respond very well to color foods and foods with vegetable matter.
Breeding: Not particularly hard to breed, rosy barbs breed like many other barbs – in groups, usually with two males per female. Condition the sexes separately till the females plump up with eggs. Put the parents together in a tank with large gravel or marbles on the bottom and bushy plants in one end of the tank. Your barbs will usually breed the next morning. Take them out as soon as they start eating their eggs. Barbs ignore their eggs except when they’re hungry -- which, unfortunately, is most of the time..
Fry Food. You’ll need to feed your baby rosy barbs infusoria <Live%20Food,%20Infusoria.htm>. Have these cultures going long before you attempt the breeding process. Your breeding success depends upon your infusoria cultures.