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Duck and Dive · Site Admin Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 59

Rosy Barb - Punitus (Barbus) conchonius

Origen: Northen India

Size: Can grow up to 14cm but generally smaller

pH: 6-8

Temp range: 16-24 ( degrees C )

Diet: Will eat a wide range of food. Good quaility flake or staple food is recomended. As well as frozen or live food such as brine shrimp or bloodworm.

Compatibility: Suitable for most community aquariums, best kept in shoals of 6 or bigger. Best kept when 50% are female and 50% male to cut down on nipping between males.

Male and female: Males are red as the picture below should help ( these pictures were taken from my other site ):

Females are a yellow sort of gold colour such as the one below:

Breeding: There are two ways to breed rosy barbs, here is the first:

1.)Rosy barbs are pretty easy to breed as they are egg scatterers. All you need to do is a partial water change but the water you should put in should be 6oC colder than their normal water. This then triggers the barbs to breed so put a few spawning mops in the tank. Then remove the eggs into a rearing box or a rearing tank

Here is the second:

2.) Move the rosy barbs into a breeding tank with a griddle at the bottom so the eggs fall through the griddle so the eggs do not get eaten. Put the male and female back into the main tank and remove the griddle. The eggs should hatch in between 24-48 hrs, you may find that most of the eggs wont hatch but thats not a problem you will just have to make do with however many you have!

Rearing the fry: Rearing the fry is the same as most eggaying species.Here is a rough guide of how to raise the eggs:

1.) Soon after the fry have hatched you should feed them freshly hatched artemia or liquifry No.1.

2.) After a week or so you should then start weaning them on to liquifry no.2 as well as newly hatched artemia.

3.) At about 2-3 weeks old they should start being fed very finely crushed flake or hikari first bites or liquifry No.3.

Hope this has been of use Very Happy

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