Breeding My Fish

[Deep Blue Sea]

I recently bought a couple of cherry barbs yesterday and I'm thinkin about trying to breed them but I was wondering if anyone has done this before and could tell me if it was fairly easy. Also reading about them on the net it said they needed java moss to lay their eggs in, is that just a recomendation and could I just use fake plants or will they not lay eggs in anything less then a live plant?

Also I may be going back to the fish store to buy a coupleof gold barbs too to try to create a hybrid, does anyone know if this would be possible???

 

[fisher12889]

Cherry barbs are very easy to breed. I kept a school in a 20g planted, and without doing anything special they laid eggs nearly everytime I did a water change. I think the java moss would be necessary for any eggs to survive. Mine ate every single egg they laid before they sank even a few inches lol.

The males are the smaller, more reddish ones, females are the bigger fat ones with less vibrant color.

 

[Pomatomus]

My group of 5 (used to be 6) breed all the time in my planted 29 gallon community, but the eggs get eaten quickly.

 

[Deep Blue Sea]

does anyone know if it is possible to make a gold barb/cherry barb hybrid?

 

[DemonShark]

does anyone know if it is possible to make a gold barb/cherry barb hybrid?

I can't tell you for sure, but I highly, highly doubt it.

 

[altum_angelfish]

i have cherry barbs and mine have never bred over a 2 year period