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This small peaceful barb from Sri Lanka is an excellent community fish. Best kept in a small school in a planted aquarium. They rarely show their full colours if housed in a sparsely decorated aquarium. Grows to about 5cm.
The Barb is an active, colourful and popular aquarium fish. They are easy to feed, taking a wide variety of foods including dried food.
Barbs will command your attention! They enjoy swimming all over the tank at breakneck pace. Like many tropical fish, the male is generally more colourful, while the female is less colourful.
Barbs will school when in a group of at least five or six, and are less likely to bother other fish when in a group together. Many species are considered unsuitable in aquaria with slow-moving, long-finned tankmates.
The Barb is an active, colourful and popular aquarium fish. They are easy to feed, taking a wide variety of foods including dried food.
Barbs will command your attention! They enjoy swimming all over the tank at breakneck pace. Like many tropical fish, the male is generally more colourful, while the female is less colourful.
Barbs will school when in a group of at least five or six, and are less likely to bother other fish when in a group together. Many species are considered unsuitable in aquaria with slow-moving, long-finned tankmates.
| Scientific Name | Puntius Oligolepis |
| Size | 3 |
Customer Reviews
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Photo looks better than the specimens themselves Review by Shain
Customer Rating I bought 3 of these guys to see how they'd look in my tank.
I have a heavily planted and decorated large tank.
The female is very plain, and the males are nice, but nothing like the picture identifies. I wanted purple to add to my colour, no purple came out of them even when feeding them colour bites and keeping them for ages.
Also, they aren't so peaceful. They would chase my corydoras, Tetras & Guppies. Even nipping at their fins. Once I seen ratty fins on my delightful fish, I immediately gave away these Barbs, and now my tank is back to its harmonious balance once again. (Posted on 11/03/11) -
Checker barbs are a great small community tank fish Review by Richard
I got checker barbs as an experiment. I wanted to see how a large tank would look with large schools of small barbs, and checker barbs were one of the species i chose. They turned out to be very hardy, and their colouration brightens up nicely when in combination with others of their and related species.
They do best in a large school. Buy them when on sale and get at least 20. (Posted on 25/10/10)
