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Data sheet brocade barbs

German name:
brocade barbs

Scientific name:
Puntius semifasciolatus

Origin:
North Vietnam, Southeast China (Asia)

Size:
up to 7 cm

Aquarium

Length:
at least 100 cm edge length

Contents:
from 150 liters

water values

Temperature:
18°C to 24°C degrees

pH:
6.0 to 8.0

GH:
2 to 20 degrees

CH:
2 to 15°

Behave

Area:
below and in the middle

Lining:
Omnivores, flake food, dry food, food tablets, live food, plants

Behave:
Schooling fish, very peaceful, lively

Number:
Group of at least 8 animals

Difficulty level:
Beginner

origin and socialization

Brocade barbs, Puntius semifasciolatus, are colored orange with random black markings of dots and dashes.

Brocade barbs will too brass barbs or Hong Kong barbel called. Brocade barbs are probably a cultivated form of brass barbs. Real brass barbs are rarely offered in the trade.

Brocade barbs can be kept in unheated living room aquariums. They can live in large tubs or small ponds from early June to mid-October. They also tolerate summer heat temporarily. The information for the size vary between 6 to 10 centimeters. According to one report, adult brocade barbs were about 4 centimeters in size.

Although they can also live temporarily in heated tropical tanks, keeping them in a tropical tank for a long time is neither beneficial nor species-appropriate.

Brocade barbs can, for example, be socialized with parrot platies in an unheated living room aquarium.

Brocade barbs can bother other fish.

breed

Brocade Barben Source: Picture on Wikimedia Commons License: CC Attr. SA 2.5 Author: Gerd Nomade

Females ready to spawn can become very fat. The males try to stimulate the female to release their eggs by constantly surrounding the spawning opening as if they wanted to eat the spawn immediately after it was released.

It is recommended to put the female in a special breeding tank with a male. A small aquarium with 20 liters of water is sufficient as a breeding tank. The bottom should be coarse gravel so that the eggs fall into the gravel and are protected. An alternative are green, needle-like doormats, which are an ideal protection against spawning. The parents are strong spawn predators. The temperature should be a little higher and the water a little softer than in the holding tank. A light flow can be created with a foam filter or an oxygen stone.

The bottom should be covered with java moss. The java moss can swim in the aquarium as a loose ball. It is specifically swam by the barbels.

If the animals are moved in the evening, they will spawn after one or two days at the latest in the morning when there is light.

Gold brocade barbs spawning Source: Picture on Wikimedia Commons License: CC Attr. SA 3.0 Author: Fred Hsu

A desk lamp placed on the side of the tank can trigger spawning. The change from dark to light seems to stimulate the brocade barbs to spawn. If the male pushes too hard and the female keeps fleeing, the male will be removed first.

As in the case of mullets, false matings also occur in brocaded barbs.

When spawning, males and females plunge headlong into the java moss. They stand close together and vibrate strongly.

The javamoss serves as a privacy screen for the eggs against the parents. The eggs therefore do not stick to the java moss, but most of the eggs fall through. Parents will no longer specifically stalk eggs once they are out of sight. Nevertheless, the parents are caught after spawning.

If brocade barbs do not spawn, the sexes should be separated 2 to 3 days. The females are well fed. Then a pair is set for breeding.

rearing

With a good supply of food in the first few days, around 70% of the young survive. The young hatch after around 24 hours. The exact time depends on the temperature. Depending on the temperature, the young feed on their yolk sac for about 3 days. When they swim freely after about 4 days, old algae-covered plants or coarse mulm are put into the tank as the first food. Tiny amounts of hard-boiled egg yolk can be atomized in water with an eyedropper. A little later the young are fed with Artemia.

Brocade barbs in the 112 l aquarium:

Brocade barbs and other fish when feeding: