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 | Bleeding Heart Tetras or Cherry Barbs? |
tomsouthall   Enthusiast Posts: 286 Kudos: 470 Votes: 13 Registered: 18-Jan-2004   | I know technically Cherry barbs are Cyprindae but they look a bit like tetras! I am going to add a school of either of these fish to go with my shoal of rummynoses, and i need some advice on which to get! has anyone had any bad experiences with either of these fish? Thanks Last edited by tomsouthall at 19-Feb-2005 15:44 |
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bettachris  Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004  | i would go with the cherry barbs. |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:37 |   |
| BigGee168 Enthusiast Posts: 245 Kudos: 209 Votes: 42 Registered: 18-Jan-2004  | Hi Tom, I did some research on cherry barbs b4 and they are not schooling fish. Just want to let u know if u were getting a school of them. [link=http:// fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/cherry.xm fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/cherry.xm OR [link=http:// www.aquahobby.com/gallery/gcherry.html]http:// www.aquahobby.com/gallery/gcherry.html[/link] Hope this helps Gee Gee !!I think I just learned somthing new!! |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:37 | |
| tomsouthall Enthusiast Posts: 286 Kudos: 470 Votes: 13 Registered: 18-Jan-2004 | Thanks Gee, i didn't realise that, well maybe il get a school of bleeding hearts and just a couple of Cherry Barbs. |
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| fish1 Banned Posts: 1727 Kudos: 1910 Votes: 58 Registered: 09-May-2004 | i would go all out on cherry barbs and see if you can breed them or justy do like he reccommnended and get a little bit of each. |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:37 | |
| tomsouthall Enthusiast Posts: 286 Kudos: 470 Votes: 13 Registered: 18-Jan-2004 | i made the purchase on cherry barbs! they were selling them off cheap so i got 6 for the price of 4, their still young so are not the full 'cherry' colour, does anyone know at what age/size the colour matures? |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:37 | |
| fish1 Banned Posts: 1727 Kudos: 1910 Votes: 58 Registered: 09-May-2004 | At my lfs there around 3/4in when they have bright colors. You may have gotten some females though if you fish are bigger than this because males have the bright red cherry color. fish1 |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:37 | |
| tomsouthall Enthusiast Posts: 286 Kudos: 470 Votes: 13 Registered: 18-Jan-2004 | im little confused, in the books i have been reading it says their maximum size is 5cm (up to 2 inch) it also says this on the profiles on this site, is this true or can they get to 3/4 inch? Last edited by tomsouthall at 20-Feb-2005 11:04 |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:37 | |
curvicep  Fingerling Posts: 46 Kudos: 43 Votes: 0 Registered: 01-Feb-2005 | cherry barbs don't school, in fact the opposite, they don't like to be around their own kind. I've had my 4 cherry barbs for over 4 years. When the two males get together they flare their fins and chase each other away. The females gets larger. The males are always in their breeding colour, a very intense red. They are always pursueing the females. My 2 males are 1-1.5inches and the female is 2 inches. My cherrys are constantly breeding in my 70gal community. I see really tiny fry often, one has actually survived and is now a full grown female. |
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