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Wow that's amazing!! We are currently breeding cherry barbs and the process is so different. Didn't even realise they where live breakers. Thank you all for the help. Since this happened we noticed one of the females is drastically smaller than the others and they where all the same size so I'm...

So I have a 10gal tank with 3 female sword tails and a Cory cat. We have had them together in this tank for just over 2 months now. Well got home from work today and I saw what looked like a small piece of dust fell into the tank. After closer examination I realised that there where 4 baby...

We have two adult barbs in the tank there fins are fine. The younger generation is the only ones experiencing this deterioration. The male is very active and is always chasing someone around. So as I have said previously in this thread I do believe it is simply the male nipping at them as he...

this is the biggest girl from the next generation. And her fins where the worse and seem to be getting fuller New to the fish thang

Yes only the next generation has it. In this photo you will see our two older barbs the male uptop with the older female on the lower of the frot three and the female to the left of the male you see the rear fins are torn and on the female to the far right has the same thing. It started once...

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Just to answer a few of those questions I didn't read before posting ?... Our 20 gallon tank has 6 cherry barbs 2 original and 4 raised from fry in the tank. As well 3 oto's Ammonia is 0 Ph- 7.2 Nitrite- 0 Nitrate- 15 Water temp - 75f In that tank we have a i 10-30 gal filter running at about...

So we have had a cherry barb community that has been going for about a year now and over the summer they had 4 babies and they have all grown up and are doing well my only concern was their fins have not fully developed. Their tail fins seem shredded. I thought this was just the older fiah...

I didn't move all the substrate just a scoop of it. We have been testing the water and levels all seem fine still everyone in the 10 gal is fine now although like I said we are still somehow missing a Cory he may have crawled into the shell not positive but haven't seen him in 2 days and there...

So this is our new 20 gal And this is our old 10 gal that we are using to make sure the new fish aren't going to make our old fish sick New to the fish thang

Oh yea I actually took the filter right off my old tank and put it on the new one along with a lot of the substrate and all the plants ended up in the new tank and the old tank still has the same substrate and water. Everyone in the new tank is really happy. My only issue now is I can't find a...

Soo we got ourselves a nice 20 gallon tank we cycled for a week and moved our current community of 6 barbs and 3 oto's into there new home everyone seems to be doing very well. At the same time in the old 10 gallon tank we put 3 female sword tails and 3 corydoras haraldschultzi. The sword tails...

Yea we are currently cycling a 20 gallon. So the new fish would be going into that. Although even at 20 gallons with 6 breeding barbs and 5 otocinclus would there still be room for a group of anything? Or would that possibly be the next size up I would add more? Like I said the barbs do really...

Any one have any suggestions for a good addition to a cherry barb, and Otto community?? I am looking for someone who is going to really sift through the gravel we seem to have a nice culture of worms in there so looking for something to help keep the population of the worms down. The barbs love...

Yea she passed away when I was at work. Definitely was dropsy. Now we just have to hold the rest of the tank together everyone seems really stressed out since took her out. Getting a larger tank in the next couple weeks so hopefully after we cycle that it we can get them into a bigger tank and...

So from what I have researched it seems that she may have dropsy.... Anyone have any ideas how to help?? New to the fish thang

Hello we have had a cherry barb community now for about 6 months going strong. Our barbs have been very healthy and have been breeding. We currently have 4 new babies in the tank since we started it all up. Unfortunately one of our adult female barbs has been acting funny the past few days...

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So I haven't done an update in awhile. But the tank is doing well! We now have 5 baby barbs or fry as they are commonly referred to as. So we will def be upgrading to a larger tank in the next month or so... Algae still seems to be an issue my 3 oto's can't seem to clean it up fast enough. But...

So as of now everyone looks healthy. Only problem is the larger female now has a split down her tail fin. I'm pretty positive it's from our male chasing her so often. Latley he has backed off and is chasing the little one more so. But he does chase around our oto's a lot as well. Would adding a...

So big red our male cherry barb and the females have been very actively mating for the past week now. although I have seen plenty of eggs drop haven't seen any fry swimming around. Now will fry eat tropical flakes?? I know micro worms are recommended. But will flakes zucchini or even peas work...

So took out big red and put him into isolation tank. Although after a few minutes in there I didn't see the spot anymore so I returned him to main tank after adding aquarium salt. New to the fish thang

So after 6-7 weeks of a fishless cycle and having oto's in the tank for the past 3-4 weeks. I added 3 cherry barbs all from the same tank at a reputable LFS. Now one week later I am noticing a small white dot just below the dorsal fin on the left side of my male barb. When I took him out of the...

So I have the barbs in the tank. Been a few days now all seems to be going well. Current tank population 3- otocinclus catfish sex undetermined 3- cherry barbs 1/m 2/f I'm looking to add another 3 cherry barbs in a few weeks figure let these guys settle in and introduce the last three after...

And they where def hitchhikers of some sort. Although after a 7 week fish less cycle I believe the algae bloom I had gave the little guys a huge population boom. Not complaining from everything I've read they are a sign of a good ecosystem. And that's always good news in my book ?. New to the...