BennyBoynz Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 Yesterday I got a female gold barb to go with my male.Already they are chasing each other . Do you think there breeding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted October 11, 2014 Report Share Posted October 11, 2014 Could be, or just sorting out the pecking order. I used to breed barbs outside over the summer months so they had plenty of space. I would buy the kiddy pools from the Warehouse (3m diameter high sided ones, about 1m high from memory) then weight down clumps of oxygen weed (gathered free from a nearby river) and fill the pool. Once the temperature had reached a minimum of 25C and stayed relatively high overnight as well, I would add the fish then leave them as long as the weather stayed warm enough. Plenty of insects and other critters would end up in there for food. At the end of summer I could slowly drain the pool and catch the resulting fry, which grow much faster and bigger than tank bred fry. They seemed a lot more colourful too but that may have been because of the large number triggering more realistic behaviour and colour than smaller numbers in smaller tanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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