"Tedd Jacobs" wrote in message
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"Mariachi" wrote...
I was just wondering if ti's possible to breed tiger barbs without
seperating them first?

assuming you mean 'seprating them first' from the rest of the group by
isolating them in a breeding tank, yes. although breeding them is not the
problem, survival is.


Also any other advice?

your shots at success are at the best, beyond minimal. even with a
crowded tank (by crowded i mean lots of other objects eg.
plants/decorations etc.) barbs will eat every egg they can find, which is
most given that they are egg-scatterers. secondly as the fry begin to
hatch they make themselves more suseptable to predation by drawing
attention to themselves via movement. third, food-- fry need an abundance
of micro foods which are commonly not found in an established tank and
require you to either i. provide it as a supliment (liquifry or other) or
ii. culture your own. in either case the surviability of the fry is
dependent on their ability to 'accidentally' find food, which again leads
to predation by other fish. lastly, even if they survive long enough to
pass beyond the fry stage, wrt tigers-- if it will fit in its mouth, it's
food. young tigers are food for bigger tigers.

my personal recommendation-- if you are serious about breeding barbs, get
a breeding tank, else you end up frustraited with the attempts. i have
kept, bred, and raised barbs for a number of years and never have i had
them successfully produce offspring in an environment that includes the
parents (or other fish for that matter).

in my personal opinion-- tigers are some of the most wonderful fish to
keep and breed.



I used to watch them in the creek near pulada where the combat survival
course was held. Only a small creek (except after rain) with gravel bottem
and lots of vegetation.
In lots of fish farms the rosey barb is bred as a feeder fish in great
quantity.
I'd chase up info on that species and try apply it to the tiger barb.
Think of barbs as rainbow fish in that it is VERY rare for fry to survive
being in the same tank as adults.
No that doesn't include 'blue eyes' but then they are not really rainbows
I recon a good bit of egg mop work and a seperate tank (filled with water
from the parent tank) to hatch out eggs on the mops will be the go