Barbs Are Fun Exotic Fish For Your Tropical Fish Tank

Barbs for Aquariums

Barbs are fun to have zipping around your fish tank. They usually average 2"- 3" in size. Barbs need to be paired up with similar fish in the tropical community. Can you see the trend? Tropical fish are normally the fish for your aquarium. Barbs are Omnivores. They eat both plant and animals like prepared and live foods. You can toss Fish Flakes or Pellets to feed your Barb. Romaine Lettuce, zucchini and peas are also a good source of food for your Barb, don't be shy to mix it up a little with the food. Freeze-Dried Blood worms, tubifex worms and other small worms, mosquito larvae and daphnia are the specialty foods for your Barb. You don't want to clean a bunch of leftovers so be sure to provide enough food that your Barb will eat in 3 minutes or so.

Barbs are usually middle swimmers, meaning you find them in the middle of the fish tank moving about. Barbs are most active and playful swimmer and like to tease and nip at the fins of slower moving fish. The Barb is like the prankster at the school yard. Only his domain is the aquarium. Barbs move about with 2 or 3 other Barbs to keep the group tough. When Barbs are alone they tend to seclude themselves from the rest of the aquarium fish. So be sure to buy a few of their buddies so it can be more playful in the fish tank.

Other Common Barbs for your fish tank include Tiger Barbs, Cherry Barbs, Rosy Barbs and Tinfoil Barbs.