How do you breed cherry barbs and succesfully raise the fry?

Answer 1

For breeding, a separate tank should be used. Cherry Barbs will breed on a regular period of about every 3 weeks. Separating the male and female before breeding can help, but a bonded pair will develop a consistent pattern without being separated. The male begins chasing the female continuously when she is ready to spawn. When they breed, the male wraps around the female to fertilize the egg as she releases it. The process is repeated many times over a period of several minutes to an hour. Cherry Barbs will spread eggs on finely leaved plants, such as Cabomba. Eggs that fall to the bottom of the tank will hatch there too. After spawning, the parents should be removed to increase survival rates. The parents will rarely search through gravel and plants for eggs if they adequately fed, so it is possible to leave them in the breeding tank and successfully raise some young. The fry will hatch in a few days and they are very tiny light brown to almost colorless slender slivers. They quickly begin searching for food among plant leaves, rocks and gravel. If the parents are left in the tank and there are no other predators, some of the fry will survive being consumed. Brine shrimp and finely crushed flakes are excellent food sources too. If breeding parents are left in the same tank with some fry, eventually the fry will become large enough to eat eggs and young fry themselves, at which point no new young will survive.

Answer 2

Cherry Barbs are egg layers. Male and female are easily identified because the male is the bright red color. All barbs like plants. To raise any type barb, just put some horn wort in the tank and let it take over. Leave the tank alone except for feeding the fish. If the fish are undisturbed for about 3 months, you should have some fry. After you see tiny fish in the tank, just crumble up some fish flakes and/or brine for them. Make sure the aeration is not excessive.

Answer 3

They'll breed in the community tank but you hardly ever see the result.
separate the male and female for whatever reason it helps the process in the new tank, introduce the male.
they scatter the eggs witch stick to the plants or mop hanging from a fine thread, remove the parents as soon as you see the eggs as they will both eat them or remove the plants, mop from the tank to a separate one. they lay about 250/350 eggs.
the water should be slightly acidic around 6.5 area and it needs to be about 2/4gh. the eggs will hatch in about 24hrs the fry are extremely small and first time for me i couldn't find them, baby brine shrimp and rotifers are a good starter food after the first week they should be large enough to take finely crushed flake.
males are thinner than the female, in young fish its difficult to tell.

AJ

Answer 4

Here's another excellent article on breeding cherry barbs.

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/McNaughton_Cherry_Barb.html

MM