DaveO Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 Just for fun I decided to try to breed some of my Golden Dwarf Barbs. I have a 10 gallon quarantine tank sitting empty of fish and full of plants, snails, and shrimp. So I added a couple females and one male who were acting fiesty. This was on the first of May with a storm coming in, so I figured the timing was good. It took an hour to get them out of their planted home tank, but finally I got 'em. The next day all three were exhausted from spawning by 10:00am, so I quickly netted them back to their home tank. The results were these two little guys here. I'm going to try again in hopes of improving the number of fry. 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 All that work and 2 fry hahaha! Is there a chance more will hatch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 On 6/8/2023 at 1:34 PM, xXInkedPhoenixX said: All that work and 2 fry hahaha! Is there a chance more will hatch? I don't think so. It's been too long, five weeks i think, since I pulled the parent fish. I don't mind destroying my tank trying to net them out, so I'm going to try again.😅 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 On 6/8/2023 at 11:39 AM, DaveO said: I don't mind destroying my tank trying to net them out, so I'm going to try again. I was more talking about their work more than yours LOL but yes that too! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 On 6/8/2023 at 1:46 PM, xXInkedPhoenixX said: I was more talking about their work more than yours LOL but yes that too! Amateurs 🤣 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 Your snails probably eat most of the eggs I would try using a tank with no snails if your going to try and breed them again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 @Lennie ^^ Congratulations @DaveO That's wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 On 6/8/2023 at 4:18 PM, Colu said: Your snails probably eat most of the eggs I would try using a tank with no snails if your going to try and breed them again Thanks for the heads up about snails. I might thin out the snails' population before I try again, but I don't want a dedicated breeding tank. I have reached my limit on number of tanks, at least for now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 20 Author Share Posted June 20 I released both fry into their forever home today. Here's one of them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 Released into a Flex? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 21 Author Share Posted June 21 Yes, this is my 32g flex. I also have a 15 gallon with a bunch of chili rasbora. I was going to show the other barb yesterday but the forum was down. Here's a shot of two babies and some older siblings. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 26 Author Share Posted June 26 Look what I found in here today. Five more baby barbs, hopefully more tomorrow. It's been just four days since they spawned, so I'll let you know what happens. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewbie Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 On 6/8/2023 at 1:34 PM, xXInkedPhoenixX said: All that work and 2 fry hahaha! Is there a chance more will hatch? 2 every month would be 240 after 10 years; quite a bit for such a small aquarium 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 27 Author Share Posted June 27 Not record breaking, I admit.😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted July 5 Author Share Posted July 5 Today I thinned out the guppy grass because it got too thick. Also it was full of hair algea. I was kind of concerned a baby barb could get tangled in it. So after I did that I was able to see eight fry darting around. Some were on the glass and rocks, others on plants. They are still quite small and hard to see. Here's a few snapshots I was able to get. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted July 11 Author Share Posted July 11 Here is a quick update. As near as I can figure, these golden dwarf barbs were hatched 17 days ago. They are starting to get some of their barb color and pattern now. Also, chasing down and pigging out on frozen baby brine shrimp. Today I was able to count 11 fry. Here's a couple shots. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Fry are so hard to get pics of, I commend your efforts sir! Nice pics! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted July 11 Author Share Posted July 11 On 7/11/2023 at 5:05 PM, xXInkedPhoenixX said: Fry are so hard to get pics of, I commend your efforts sir! Nice pics! I appreciate your comment, thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted July 15 Author Share Posted July 15 The fry count keeps increasing. I'm up to 20 baby barbs now. Here's a shot of 12, maybe 13 in one frame. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted July 20 Author Share Posted July 20 Today is exactly one month since the parent fish scattered the eggs that are now these guys. They actually seem to recognize me as the food guy. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted July 28 Author Share Posted July 28 Today I was able to get a photo of all 31 barbs in one shot. Yes 31. Thanks to @Colu informing me of the killer snails in the tank, I was able to increase the fry count from two to 31. This time I removed by hand every snail I could see before putting the spawners in the tank. That was a chore that lasted a solid two days. After they spawned and I removed the parent fish, I continued squishing very small snails that appeared for several more days. I'm guessing one or two more weeks before I move them into their forever home. This has been a lot of fun. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube_Goldfish Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 On 7/28/2023 at 5:56 PM, DaveO said: Today I was able to get a photo of all 31 barbs in one shot. Yes 31. Thanks to @Colu informing me of the killer snails in the tank, I was able to increase the fry count from two to 31. This time I removed by hand every snail I could see before putting the spawners in the tank. That was a chore that lasted a solid two days. After they spawned and I removed the parent fish, I continued squishing very small snails that appeared for several more days. I'm guessing one or two more weeks before I move them into their forever home. This has been a lot of fun. Will their forever home be in one of your tanks? That's a nice big school! Congratulations! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted August 2 Author Share Posted August 2 On 8/1/2023 at 2:22 PM, Rube_Goldfish said: Will their forever home be in one of your tanks? That's a nice big school! Congratulations! Thanks. I'm going to put them in this tank in the front room. Mom and dad are in here, along with several siblings. Of course they all had to hide cuz I am looking at them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 This morning I moved all the baby barbs to their forever home. As I netted them out of the ten gallon I kept count. Final number from this spawn is 33. I'm very pleased with that. I have 15 in the flex (32 gallon) already, so adding these new babies will make a nice large group. They are always active and zooming around so it's going to be fun to watch them all. I tried to get some photos but they are not cooperating at all. Anyway, here's what I could get. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 The move to the bigger tank has gone well. All the bigs and all the smalls getting along famously. Here's a clearer shot of some of them hanging out. There's even a couple of the cousins, the dwarf amber barbs, in the group. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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