Baby Tiger Barbs!

[max11180]

a few pics of my baby tiger barbs no particular reason for breeding them, just haven't bred anything for a while, and was itching to raise fry of some description! Might try cories, or oto's next.. or then again, might try green, or albino barbs.. hmm, choices!

 

[snowyangel]

Oh too cute. Never hear of too many ppl breeding them on here, was it relatively easy then?

 

[max11180]

Extremely easy to be honest.. as long as you have water, and bushy plants, just add fish and in the morning, away they go! You have to remove the adults tho, becuase they will eat eggs as soon as they get bored of laying them.

 

[Suriliel]

Awww cute... I love when the baby fish get just big enough that they start to look like tiny versions of their parents

 

[severina]

How adorable! I can't wait to try it myself

 

[millym]

gorgeous.id love to see teeny tiny tigers the smallest ive seen were our last lot who were about 2cm & they were very cute.theyre now about 2 inches!!

 

[liquidg]

max11180,

Can you tell us what you'r feeding the tiny tigers.

Thanks.

 

[saboy]

Yea, i would also like to know what your feeding em

 

[max11180]

for the 1st 3 days after hatching, nothing. when they started to move around relatively freely i used the liquifry no1 for egglayers, 3 times a day (before i went to work 6am, home from work 4.30pm, and before bed). I kept this up for about a week, then they start looking a lot healthier, and you can see the stomach with food in.
At this point i started introducing interpet's "freeze dried brine shrimp" in small doses,i.e alongside 1 out of 3 feeds for a day, then 2, then all 3 feeds, then start to increase the shrimp, and decrease liquifry. Probably better to feed them live, freshly hatched brine shrimp, but with work commitments, and 2 kids, haven't got time or space for the cultures, so i chose the easy option. After 2 weeks afrom hatching they should be more or less only onto brineshrimp. This has the commical side effect of making their bellies orange .

I kept them on that until they started showing the vertical black stripes, and took on the familiar barb shape, then i simply used finely crushed (with fingers)"aquarian" purple tropical food, made by "Waltham". Again, slowly reducing one, whilst introducing the other. Im getting close to the point to stop with brine shrimp with these now, which has been about 6 week from hatching (wish i took more notice of dates).

Just a matter of keeping the flake crushings in proportion to the mouth size after that really.. but always look out for the smaller ones! they're a better indicator of how they are doing as a whole, the ones you see out and about are the biggest and boldest.

 

[furryrabbit]

is there any way to easily sex tiger barbs

 

[max11180]

not really, until they are over 1" in length. Albinos are easiest to sex, then the regulars, hardest to spot are greens, but it's still relatively easy. It's made easier if your looking at a few at once, as oppose to just 1 on his\her own.

The biggest giveaway is the nose. Males have a big red nose, females CAN have a touch of red, but nothing as pronounced as a males.

MALE FEMALE​

If this isn't working for you, try looking at the body shape. The males are more slender, and streamlined, where as females are plumper, and fuller, due to unfertilised eggs. Males also tend be darker on the black bands, with a green tint to them, and the males generally hold all their fins fully outstretched, where as females tuck them down\up. On the subject of fins, a males fins are a lot bolder in colour than females, this is usually, but not always, more pronounced on the tailfin, and dorsal fin.

MALE FEMALE​

You can spot a male by his attitude as well, they are by far the more boisterous. The more males there is, the more this willl be noticed.