How I Bred Cherry Barbs at Home
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2022
- Want to breed yourself an innumerable swarm of small red fish? Try Cherry Barbs. In this video I'll show you how I bred and raised more Cherry Barbs than I ever wanted.
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Hey Mate, I have watched all your videos and can never get enough . You helped me start my own business breeding and selling fish in Australia. Thank you for all of it. Please Consider writing a book on what you have learnt and the tips and tricks you have acquired over the years. Definitely would buy and get it as an Audio book for that voice . Love the work man, Much Love from Australia
Thanks so much! I'm glad you got a business going that's awesome. You'll have to report back successes!
How's your business going on?
I've always bred egg scatterers over glass marbles, they are layered 3-4 marbles deep. Easier to remove than gravel with better circulation. Been doing it this way for almost fifty years.
I propose a rocket killifish breeding project. Underrated yet beautiful fish and easy to breed.
Agreed. I'll find some.
And always in demand
Good suggestion!
This sounds great - from what read the adults aren't really fry eaters but the juveniles are - it would be interesting to see how you'd tackle that long-term.
Thanks for watching! Feel free to leave questions in the comments if you have them, and If you enjoyed this video, consider subscribing to see future projects. By the way, now that they've all been counted and sold, it turns out the total number was just over 300. I can't believe that all came out of a three gallon tank...
I have a question for you about Odessa barbs and if you think this method would work for them as well. They are my next project fish
@@Rews-fishshed without having bred odessa barbs myself, I want to say yes. I bet it would. I doubt that any elements are so different that a similar approach wouldn't work.
The rest of your sandwich lol! great video..keep rockin. Great video.....keep rockin.
A fish room tour would be awesome!
I have had a group of 10 (female) cherry barbs for a little over a year and just got 5 males this weekend and in 24hours I saw them spawning together! I don’t expect to see any babies though because they are in a 75gallon community tank with cories, rummynose tetras, green neons and an opaline gourami. But it was a very exciting moment to see the eggs dropping especially so soon after adding the males. I only had the females before because that is all the store had left the day I got them and oddly enough when I went in the weekend to a different store, they only had males so I took it as a sign I should get them lol😅
Thank you Sir, been waiting for this for a long time
Can’t wait til you make a pea puffer video
Can't wait till he makes a natural breeding without any artificial operations and any non natural feeding like to give saltwater shrimps in freshwater aquarium.
Awesome video. Thanks for the info and great camera shots of the fry.
Ive watched a ton of aquarists on UA-cam and you make the BEST and most informative videos! Love your trial and error and success stories! Keep making more vids man!
Thank you! I'll make as many as I can manage
sweet been waiting for another video, one of the best creators for this content no doubt.
I found your channel a few days ago and your quality is unparalleled
What a fantastic video!! Definitely going to try breeding these over the summer.
Best channel around on the topic of breeding fish. Keep them coming 👍
Came for the fish, stayed for the humor and awesome videography. Liked and all my kribs subscribed!
Really great Video, straight forward and nice filming. Greetings from Germany!
Great video and commentary. Succinct but with the lots of useful information.
Awesome video.. eagerly waiting for future project.. much love from NEPAL..
Your videos are so informational, love it. I was sad I couldn't find any videos on danios or diamond tetras because those are what I own, but hopefully it shouldn't be too hard. I just got my first danio eggs so I'm excited to see what is gonna happen.
I really love the long fin cherry barbs and the other day i saw some albino ones and they were totally something else
I enjoy your videos unfortunate i finished them all :) ... here's to the next one
I am watching all ur videos .... what a treat to watch. Thanks a lot for such detailed explanation and documentation. ❤❤
You're very talented. Liked and Subscribed-
Wow: great channel!
Reproduziste-os melhor do que eu consegui!
Óptimo vídeo!
Um abraço desde Portugal! :)
You reproduced them better than I could!
Great video!
A hug from Portugal! :)
This video should got millions views
Great video👍would love to see a Hypancistrus breeding guide.
Yesterday, Corey McElroy (Aquarium Co-op) mentioned you and your excellent fry box.
I was so glad to hear you guys are acquainted!
I missed that! Thank you.
@@MakeMoreFish
He hopes you can find a way to mass produce your fry tray so fish breeders can buy them, and you can turn a profit.
I’m enjoying your videos! Did you say you watched 30hrs of fish footage to catch your Barbs breeding? Now that’s dedication.
For a different species I did. At high speed so it didn't take me that long. In general it can take a lot of time and work to actually catch fish doing the thing you want to record.
I would love to see a video on neon tetra, black skirt tetra and pea puffers.
I’d like to update and say I’ve successfully spawned my cherry barbs after watching your video and have fry everywhere I’m on day three but there not free swimming yet I hope tomorrow I can feed them for the first time
That's great news! I hope it all goes well for you.
Congratulations Sir on your success.
👏👏👏👏👏
Incredible results from just a trio.
🤯🤯🤯
I've a few questions if you can explain futher.
Sir can you share your water parameters & temperature for breeding them?
How long it took to condition them & did you separate them when conditioning?
Can you share process of how often you fed the parents daily during conditioning time?
At what time did the spawning behavior/ breeding occur?
I understand you said it was by accident but at what age you recommend starting to feed bbs?
How many time daily you fed bbs & when did you start doing water changes?
Thank you for sharing. Keep up the excellent work. 👍👍
about 78F and soft water but I don't think either are important for this species. Actually if I had to guess I would expect they prefer their water cooler and harder. I conditioned them for probably a month and didn't separate males and females. Probably fed them twice a day, not unusual amounts of food either. They will spawn any time of day, as soon as they get the chance really. If you put them together in the morning they will breed in the morning, if you put them together in the evening, they will breed in the evening. Roughly 2 weeks when they started eating brine shrimp but age isn't a consistent enough measure to recommend when to switch to a new food, it would be a size estimate and I usually judge that by looking for their heads and mouths to be large enough in my opinion to eat something larger. I often just try it and find out. I fed the fry twice a day as far apart in the day as I could manage and had to do water changes every other day when they were in the small tank. Now I do twice a week in a 20 gallon.
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Thank you Sir for sharing.
Can you explain how much water you removed when they were so tiny in smaller tank vs the 20 gallon now?
I have managed to have skirt tetra babies for a week. I placed a young mystery snails in tank and they quickly cleaned the bottom of tank of fungused eggs and leftover foods from when parent tetras were in spawning. I initially lost many eggs as a female escaped from breeding basket into where eggs had dropped through. Or I think that's why I only have about a dozen fry. . .Predation of eggs
Wow, this is spectacular. Thanks for the how-to! What alternative to gravel might you suggest?
I'm not sure I would recommend an alternative.. I actually came away from this with a pretty positive opinion of spawning over gravel. The problem in my case was the huge number of eggs in such a small space. It got nasty. I think any sane person would be doing this in a larger tank and it wouldn't be such an issue.
try using a small plastic tray at the bottom filled with marbles. it's easier to clean than gravel.
Is a heater needed for these at what age do they breed from also ?
Finally coming around to breed cherry barbs, thanks to my uncle providing a trio. Did you condition both males and females in the same tank/area, or were they separated prior to their breeding? I assume they were together since you'd leave them be to spawn whenever they feel like it.
I think i conditioned these separately for a few days. I'm not sure I would again though, the egg volume was a bit higher than I would prefer.
Great vid, great content! I’ve been looking for an egg scatterer to dip my toe with so to speak and after your vid these look like the go. Was there any specific water parameters needed?
Regards Duzzy🇦🇺
I don't think they're picky at all about water parameters. If I had to guess I would say they probably don't enjoy low pH but I've never tested that myself. I think they're a perfect introduction to egg scatterers. Good luck!
@@MakeMoreFish thanks very much. Like I said great vid!
Regards Duzzy🇦🇺
thanks for the video. may i ask . what brand of powdered fry food you used ?
Sure, in this video I used Sera Micron
They are so cute omg I’ve tried to breed my white cloud and my cherrys moving them into other tanks for weeks then moving them back to main but no success. Thinking of trying it again tho it’s been a year or two and my cherry barbs and white clouds are still in that tank waiting for the project just been working alot 😢
*cherries plural
Any luck with chili rasboras?
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Excellent video! How you doing with those breeding boxes
Going well, testing out an adjustable tank mounted version
@@MakeMoreFish
Try making them fit a 20 glonong again im i terested in buying from you, once you're done. Thx for the videos, keep em coming
Amazing video as usual. May i know your temp, ph and hardness?
Temp was 78ish. Ph neutral and low gH. 2-3 degrees usually
@@MakeMoreFish thanks man. Im from malaysia and struggling to breed since now its hot season. My aquarium is constantly at 30degC and i think that may be the problem.
Hi, which fry powder do you use? My fry powder is .3 - .4mm in size, and i think it will be WAY too big
There's powder and then there's dust.. I think we say powder but what we really need is dust. In this case I used sera micron
I can confirm they will indeed eat the rest of your sand which lol😂
do you feed the adults when they are in the breeding tank?
Sure, small amounts. Might as well keep the tank cycles and ready
What fry powder did you use bro?
I think this was Sera Micron
I put 1 male and 3 female in a 3 gallon cube. Small, I know. But it was just fo r laying eggs. The were frightend, it seems and didnt make anything.
I recall mine being pretty nervous when I first put them in the spawning tank. They ought to calm down.
Why do they move there mouths so much? I keep thinking mine are suffocating even though they aren't at the surface. It's super stressful cause they are in a filterless tank. I added a small filter to add water movement, but they acted the same all day, so I removed it. Tanks been up and running for 1 year but the cherry barbs are a new addition 1 week ago.
Hard to say without seeing what fast looks like. Could be nothing wrong at all, they're pretty active fish.
alternative of fry powder?
Infusoria probably
How did you remove the gravel
Most of it with a flat plastic scoop. The rest with a siphon during water changes. It wasn't a fun process.
Hey what’s up man. Old video, so I hope you can help with direction.
So I just got into fish keeping a few weeks ago. I wanted to pick one fish I love a stock my tank.
Albino Cherry Barbs UA-cam videos blew my mind and I fell in love with them.
My 15 gallon Flex tank cycled on Day 16 and I put in 2 males and 3 females. 5 days later and one of the females went on a mating frenzy today.
I was not prepared for this one bit. I immediately went and picked up a floating plastic imagatarian breeding tank. But I might have been too late. And bought some dried cyclops powder food. (Her belly is smaller now)
I think im ready for them breeding now. However she bred all day and I don’t know how long they will breed for?
My two other females look like juveniles so I’m sure their time will come.
The eggs are all over the place and I don’t have another tank to separate fish and eggs. I know they eat them. Any tips?
I am super happy and thrilled my fish are breeding in this brand new tank!
Personally I would not worry too much about their breeding or about trying to raise a large number of fry. If you're new to keeping fish I would just sit back and watch the magic happen and be ready to deal with one of the 40 things that will almost certainly go sideways as you experience how a tank and its inhabitants mature over time. If you have plants or other hiding places, you will most likely have a few survivors that grow up along with the adults and you can slowly grow a school of fish. Or you can dive headfirst, get more tanks, and raise up a bunch of fry and learn all about that angle. That's what I did. Just have fun and don't burn yourself out.
@@MakeMoreFish Thanks for the reply. My tank is a mating frenzy everyday. Another very young female released pheromones the entire tank goes crazy. I managed to put them in a breeder tank with a breeding mop. I got some eggs in the box. pick up fry powder food and live brine shrimp machine coming in a few days.
It would be great for some fry to survive, but all my fish are constantly hunting the ground for eggs. I feed them well, and they still work the bottom of the tank. My tank remains clean which is good. I'll probably get a few more tanks. I have people who will buy them. cheers
What is the PH and TDS of your water?
7.8-7.9 and probably around 150 tds
Hmm I'm not sure why but my white clouds are breeding but my cherry barbs are not, to be more precise they are breeding but not making fertile eggs. I placed a tray with gravel under dense java fern foliage and still nothing, Its a community tank btw with the breeding white clouds as I don't have space for a second tank.
What age you can differenciate males from females?
After about 3 months I think you should be able to tell pretty easily
Do u need ro water for the eggs?
not in my experience, no. I would be very surprised to find it was ever necessary.
@@MakeMoreFish kk sweet i got a group of 8 in my display planted tank with angles and Cory's and neon rainbow and they are always going nuts. I will try your method! Thankyou!
What's the tank size mate?
Started in 3 gallons then moved to a 20 gallon to grow
May i ask
What moss that u use?
That was java moss
@@MakeMoreFishthanks!
@@MakeMoreFishis pelia moss fine for cherry barb's breeding?
Okay so that’s why I’m able to keep my population down to a reasonable amount because they eat their babies cool. That works for me. Survival of the fittest. One question tho have you noticed that you only see females or is that because the males won’t eat the females ?
I have not noticed that, I had a fairly even ratio
Are there any optimal temperature to breed Cherry Barbs?
I don't know about optimal. I think they are pretty tolerant of a wide temperature range. Mine were at 77-78 and bred prolifically though I suspect they are probably most comfortable a few degrees cooler.
I got two males and it turned into a female
would you be able to differentiate between males and females at their I think juvi. stage? like the last part of the video
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