Photos of my barbs

CassCats

Fish Aficionado
Pet of the Month 🎖️
Fish of the Month 🌟
Joined
Mar 22, 2020
Messages
3,780
Reaction score
8,156
Location
North America
Just like my catfish threads, I'll be regularly posting photos of my barbs here.
I keep cherry barbs and recently some melon barbs.

First set here are my melon barbs, who are still juveniles and still developing the adult colouration. Ive got a group of 6 of them. Will see how they get along and how many males to females I have and perhaps get a couple more. Not very shy these guys, very active and inquisitive. Peaceful, though they do chase one another often, they still also group together.
20201004_111036.jpg
20201004_110528.jpg
20201013_222321(0).jpg
20201015_225025.jpg
20201015_225230.jpg
20201015_225233.jpg
20201015_225836.jpg
20201015_225908.jpg
20201015_225923.jpg
20201015_230151(0).jpg
20201013_222145.jpg
20201013_222224.jpg
20201011_232711.jpg
20201007_215921.jpg
20201005_195440.jpg
 
My cherry barbs are a little shy, so often harder to get nice closeups of them.
I have 6, with one male and five females. My male is sometimes really pale pink-brown and other times he brightens up to a bright red patchy pink.
Theyre a very peaceful bunch, very content to chill in the plants
20201013_222819.jpg
20201013_223246.jpg
20200925_235242.jpg
20200925_235416.jpg
20200925_235743.jpg
20200924_234702.jpg
20200912_204718.jpg
20200907_204931.jpg
20200818_133906.jpg
20200625_231258.jpg
 
Thumbs up to all barbs but Tigers. Even then,those day glo ruby Tigers actually look great. If I see them ever again,one barb that was a favorite and I would raise them was the Arulius barb,one of those 4" barbs that was red white and blue, and males had long streamers on their dorsal fins. Showy,peaceful fish.
 
Thumbs up to all barbs but Tigers. Even then,those day glo ruby Tigers actually look great. If I see them ever again,one barb that was a favorite and I would raise them was the Arulius barb,one of those 4" barbs that was red white and blue, and males had long streamers on their dorsal fins. Showy,peaceful fish.
Tigers are pretty and all but they gotta be kept properly. Not an easy beginner fish lol

The melons are very peaceful fish, active too.
 
Wow the colors on both the melons and the cherries are awesome!!! It sounds like the personality of the melons especially make for an active tank that must be a lot of fun to watch!! Barbs are high on my list for what fish may be exciting for a toddler, what are your thoughts on that?
 
Wow the colors on both the melons and the cherries are awesome!!! It sounds like the personality of the melons especially make for an active tank that must be a lot of fun to watch!! Barbs are high on my list for what fish may be exciting for a toddler, what are your thoughts on that?
Cherries can be timid so may escape the notice of a toddler, but the active ones that aren't as shy would grab attention very well.
The melons are awesome if you can find them. Larger, get up to 3 inches, but super active and pretty peaceful. They like having other barb species and other schooling species around too. Mine are still babies so their full coloring isn't out yet, but I adore them.
 
NC do you want my Odessa? Theyre rubbish lol
 
NC do you want my Odessa? Theyre rubbish lol
Aww theyd probably do well with the other barbs too especially since its a cooler water tank too, but im sure maybe someone local to you would love yours if you dont want them.

Id recommend cherry barbs if you still wanted to try out barbs. Very docile. Gold barbs are really good too right after them.
 
Think I'm throw a load of danios in with them, or yeh, some other barbs. Odessas are all alone in a 63 gallon at the moment, and spend half their time in hiding. So probably need some dithers. Beautifully coloured fish though
 
Think I'm throw a load of danios in with them, or yeh, some other barbs. Odessas are all alone in a 63 gallon at the moment, and spend half their time in hiding. So probably need some dithers. Beautifully coloured fish though
Yeah dithers would be good for the barbs. My cherries can be shy. The melons are not though.
 
Some melon barb photos.
I'm down to 5 since one jumped during emergency housing, but I am getting more soon.
The first photo is definitely male, he is getting more black in his fins and more intense red.
20201106_111105.jpg
20201106_111047.jpg
20201106_110920.jpg
20201106_110858.jpg
 
So my total for melon barbs now is 12, I picked up 7 more. Big happy group.
The light hits my tank in the late morning and one of the melon barbs was playing in the light, showing off some fantastic coloring.
20201108_162807.jpg

20201108_135620.jpg

20201108_135752.jpg

20201108_135746.jpg
20201108_135946.jpg

20201108_162900.jpg

20201108_204117.jpg

20201108_203137.jpg



Most my cherry barbs are blind or near blind due to a recent incident, though. Still number 6 of them.
20201108_203820.jpg

20201108_162145.jpg
 
Just like my catfish threads, I'll be regularly posting photos of my barbs here.
I keep cherry barbs and recently some melon barbs.

First set here are my melon barbs, who are still juveniles and still developing the adult colouration. Ive got a group of 6 of them. Will see how they get along and how many males to females I have and perhaps get a couple more. Not very shy these guys, very active and inquisitive. Peaceful, though they do chase one another often, they still also group together.
View attachment 119898View attachment 119899View attachment 119900View attachment 119901View attachment 119902View attachment 119903View attachment 119904View attachment 119905View attachment 119906View attachment 119907View attachment 119908View attachment 119909View attachment 119910View attachment 119911View attachment 119912
Nice
 

Most reactions

trending

Staff online

Back
Top