Cherry barbeque is an incredibly mobile and playful aquarium fish, undemanding in its content, care of it is not complicated, it is possible for any newcomer. Having created certain conditions, following elementary rules and providing a safe neighborhood, you can admire a flock of barbs for a long period of time.
Cherry barbus - content
Aquarium fish cherry barbs like living conditions as natural as possible, prefer space and vegetation, nooks and good lighting. Barbuses - schooling fish, so in one aquarium should settle at least five individuals. On the advice of specialists, among them there should be two or three males, this is caused by their more intense color, they look more aesthetic than females.
Litrazh tank, which contains barbs, choose at least 50-70 liters, with its arrangement, pay attention to the following factors:
- composition of soil and its fraction;
- suitable species of aquarium plants ;
- optimal temperature regime;
- necessary equipment.
Barbus temperature-content
Comfortable maintenance of barbs at home requires maintaining a temperature range that falls within the range of +22 ° C to + 26 ° C. It should be noted that the fish are able to tolerate some deviation from these temperature parameters both in one and the other direction by a small number of degrees, but then the animals become inactive, slightly numb. The cherry barbese adapts to various temperature parameters, the main thing is that their shift is not sharp, but occurs gradually, and was within the limits of the acceptable for this species of fish.
Cherry barbeque - compatibility
Barbus, being a semi-fascinating fish that has a pugnacious character, likes to entertain, organizing scuffles and small fights, in which the tails of their fellow aquariums flutter with pleasure. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure, with the maintenance and care of the barbs, their optimal compatibility with other species of fish. Contain in the aquarium this kind of fish, pick up for them neighbors who can not harm them, and those who can not harm them.
Because of the harmfulness and unbalance, the cherry barbeque is absolutely incompatible with the following representatives of harmless domestic fishes, especially those with luxurious fins and tails:
- cockerels;
- telescopes;
- guppies;
- vealechvostami;
- scalars;
- goldfish;
- cichlids.
Good neighbors will be for the cherry barbs, these kinds of fish, which correspond to them in size and their habits are the same:
- swordsmen ;
- botsii ;
- Mollies ;
- gurami ;
- fish parrots ;
- different kinds of catfish.
Barnes care
The maintenance of barbs and their care consists of observance of several basic requirements recommended by experienced aquarists:
- the number of fish should be at least five or six, they are used to live in flocks;
- the volume of the aquarium can not be less than 50 liters, it necessarily contains aeration and filtration;
- vegetation is desirable sparse, but filling the entire bottom of the aquarium, it is also necessary to create corners with intensive growth of aquarium plants, in which the fish hide, anticipating the danger;
- providing the optimum for the barbs temperature minimum and maximum;
- good lighting, while creating a few secluded places, slightly darkened;
- weekly water renewal by one third (in the absence of an oxygen system - more often);
- every two to three months cleaning the aquarium;
- providing a balanced feed (live and vegetable).
Breeding of barbs at home
Cherry barbs have the ability to reproduce, starting at 6 months of age. For this process, it is necessary to select individuals with the brightest coloring, the largest in size and different from their fellow humans by their mobile behavior, these parameters will be the key to successful offspring. Reproduction of barbs at home begins with the fact that the fish selected for this purpose are planted in a separate spawning site, the capacity of which is 15-20 liters. The primary food for females during this period is vegetable, for males - protein.
In the aquarium spawning water temperature at a level of 25-28 ° C, it is necessary to install a filter and a compressor . At 2-3 cm from the bottom, arrange a special net, with cells of such size that future eggs freely pass through them, sinking to the bottom, lined with spawning substrate, for example, moss. At the end of the mating season and fertilization of the female, the parents are resettled, the net is removed, the eggs are freed from the substrate. After a lapse of 24 hours, larvae develop from the ripened caviar, which in time turn into fry.
Cherry barbs - spawning
Before the spawning begins, arrange the females in separate containers from the males, to provide different nutrition. After 10-14 days, release them into the common aquarium spawning, in which the water level does not exceed 18-20 cm, at the rate of two males per female, at first the female starts, after 1.5-2 hours - males. Keep out of direct sunlight in the spawning grounds. The next day, spawning begins in the early morning, a good stimulus for this may be an increase in the temperature parameter (up to + 28 ° C).
Future parents for a long time circling around the chosen bush, with the female cherry barbeque releasing from one to several eggs, which are immediately impregnated by males. At the end of spawning, the aquarium is darkened, the unfertilized, whitened caviar is removed, the water in the tank should reach a ten centimeter level. During the spawning period, the number of eggs that can be hatched can reach 150 to 250 pieces.
What are the symptoms of cherry barbs?
Fish cherry barbs does not cause trouble to the owner, she has a high level of disease resistance. Health problems for this species of aquarium inhabitants appear due to the violation of optimal conditions of detention, overeating or have an infectious origin. Typical ailments of cherry barbs are:
- Rubella (or aeromonose). It can be caused by infected fish running into the aquarium, poor-quality fodder, old water or dishonestly disinfected equipment. In occasion of treatment it is necessary to address to the expert.
- White-skinned. Affected areas of the skin (the fins and tail area) and the nervous system, use chlorine lime in the treatment, the aquarium is disinfected.