Pentazona barbs are egg-scatterers that spawn among a course gravel bed in open water. Once spawning is finished, they will usually eat any of the approximately 200 eggs that they find.
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Latin name:
Barbus pentazona
Common name:
Pentazona Barb ...
There is another species of barb, the Pentazona Barb, which looks very similar to the tiger barb but has a fifth stripe running down its body. There are two other types of the tiger barb, the green tiger barb and the golden/albino tiger barb.
Not easy to breed. The Pentazona Barb will scatter its eggs.
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 See also: Fish, Tiger Barb, Aquarium, Species, Water
  
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