How Long Is A Tiger Barb Pregnant For?

[Castellop123]

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[helterskelter]

Their quite easy to spawn, good water changes are helpful.

I've breed them in tap water, and adding some rain water helps. but fish like otto's will just get fat eating the eggs if they do spawn, setting up a breeding tank is always the practice if u do want to breed.

 

[Castellop123]

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[helterskelter]

No a breeding trap is to small if u want to breed them.

You need a 2ft bare tank as they scatter eggs, then remove the fish if they do breed.

Feeding the fry is difficualt though, need very small food.

 

[Castellop123]

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[brads]

My tiger barbs are very greedy diners, when they have had more than there share of grub their bellys get noticebly fat. I'm wondering if they have just had a bit to much to eat. This happens to my barbs alot......but no fry!!!

 

[Castellop123]

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[helterskelter]

You want a bare tank, with idearly use 2 layers of marbelt to all the eggy to fall away from the parents who will eat them.

If you see them spawning remove the adults when finished.
If when the eggs hatch their be tiny fry stuck to the galss of the tank all over the place.

The best filteration with fry are simple air pump powered sponge filters. If to powerfull live power filters the fry get sucked in and killed.

Once the fry become free swimming at about 3-5 days they will start to feed. liqufeed #1 will help but newly hatched brine shrimp is by far the best fry food and well worh investing in a simple hatcher and getting some cheep eggs.

From one female you could get 2-300 even more eggs, this is quite easy to rear in a 2ft tank for first 3-4 weeks then once they get to 1cm you should then let some firends rear them as they will eat flake foods by then.