Many beginner aquarists ask themselves: what kind of fish can be combined in one aquarium, and which ones should not be? The barbs are quite popular for home breeding. To understand who they can settle, you need, first of all, to understand their nature.
What are barbs?
Barbuses are half-fished fish that have a rather snootish nature, so their compatibility with other fish is not the best. They clearly can not be called friendly fish. They will be happy to ruffle the tails and fins of other fish, this is their entertainment. Barbouses can not live in an aquarium. They will organize scuffles all the time, even among themselves, fights are their favorite pastime. Therefore, it is not necessary to contain more than six individuals of this species in one aquarium, otherwise they can simply lime each other, and at the same time other fish.
Although barbs and semi-predators, they can still eat small fish. They are very poorly manifested in relation to the fry, so the young must necessarily be isolated from adults. Otherwise, fry will never become a fish, but will serve only as food.
Compatibility of barbs with other fish
These fish just love to spoil the long tails and fins of their neighbors. Proceeding from this, they do not need to be populated by vealechvosts , males and telescopes. The same concerns the issue of the compatibility of barbs and guppies, or rather full incompatibility.
Barbuses are very fond of gnawing fins in slow-moving fish, as well as quickly and intensively move around the aquarium. For this reason, we can not speak of the compatibility of barbs and scalars.
Barburs and goldfish are also not very compatible, because there will be no peace between them. In addition, goldfish is best placed in a separate aquarium, because these fish are not tropical,
Barbusov is also better not to settle with predators, because in this case he will already get them. You can not talk about compatibility, for example, barbs and cichlids.
Ideally these fish with barbs of other species will get along. For example, five-striped with cherry or fiery. Also, good neighbors for them will be the gods, swordsmen.
In general, when planting semi-animal and very active pets in your aquarium, you need to remember about their nature and pick them up in the neighborhood of those fish that they can not damage, and which, in turn, will never harm them. Barbuses are good fish, it is important to find the right approach to them.