This article contains information on the care feeding breeding of this beautiful fish.
Black ruby barb size.
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The picture above shows a premium quality young male black ruby barb swimming in one of our aquariums when one of us took this picture.
Black ruby barb synonymstop barbus nigrofasciatus günther 1868.
The ruby barb has the typically high backed barb shape.
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From the latin niger meaning black and fasciatus meaning banded in reference to this species colour pattern.
Puntius nigrofasciatus günther 1868 etymology.
Premium pet fish are more energetic hardier and have brighter colors with a beautiful.
The brightly colored population introduced to mahaweli at ginigathena sri lanka is said to have.
They are found in streams on hills around 1000 ft 300 m in elevation.
The black ruby barb is a peaceful beautiful small barb from the forested streams of sri lanka off the southern coast of india.
Best described as a friendly omnivorous tank mate it may have issues with being out competed by larger more carnivorous fish.
The waters where black ruby barbs are found in nature are soft and acidic and the natural substrates in the river beds are made up of fine gravel or sand.
Ruby barb tropical fish learn all about the ruby barb s feeding habits and food types its behaviour its origins its natural habitats is it male or female breeding advice and information suitable tank mates its sizing and growth range minimum tank size water ph and more.
72 to 79 f 23 to 26 c.
The basal part of all the vertical fins is deep black in females while pelvic fins are reddish and the anal fin blackish red in males.
Sample of the barbs i sell.
The black ruby barb pethia nigrofasciata formerly puntius nigrofasciatus or purplehead barb is a tropical cyprinid fish endemic to sri lanka where it occurs in forested streams from the kelani basin to the nilwala basin.
Learn about the black ruby barb pethia nigrofasciata.
Black ruby barb water requirements.
In the wild both deforestation and over collection have put this species at risk.
5 to 12 dgh.
The male fish is silvery or dark blue to black with a crimson head while the female displays duller colours and dark vertical bars.
This is a premium pet fish and we never see premium black ruby barbs like these in any of the live fish stores that we visit.
The generic vernacular name for small cyprinids in the sinhala language.
Water in these areas is cooler than other tropical regions so tank temperature for ruby barbs should be in the range of 72 to 79 degrees f.
