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Puntius partipentazona is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Cyprininae sub-family of the Cyprinidae family.

 


Puntius sahjadriensis
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Puntius assimilis, the Mahecola barb
Matt Clarke looks at an attractive barb that's being sold as Barbus mahecola in the UK's aquatic shops.

Puntius tetrazona has a gold body with four vertical black bars, the first of which passes through the eye. The top of the snout and the pelvic fins are red, and the other fins have faint red markings on their edges.

Puntius tetrazona
Tiger Barb, Sumatra Barb
Age of Aquariums Freshwater Fish Tiger Barb - Puntius tetrazona ...

Puntius semifasciolatus
Synonyms
Barbus/Capoeta semifasciolatus (not valid) ...

Puntius everetti - Syn: Barbus everetti
The Clown Barb sports a reddish gold sheen, red fins, and spotted "bands",... making it look rather clownish! ...

Puntius tetrazona
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Tiger Barb - Puntius tetrazona ...

Barbus schuberti or Puntius sachsi or The Gold Barb
Posted by: Guest on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 07:53 PM
by Al Anderson ...

Puntius tetrazona
Your comments:
From: Iain
Date:07/11/2002
I originally started with 3 of these guys and one of them just picked on the other 2 all the time.

Puntius conchonius, THE ROSY BARB by Greg Mallet
Summary: Rosy barbs are good community fish, and are easy to spawn on spawning mops or plants. They are egg eaters, so the eggs should be removed to another tank.

puntius conchonius
Species / Type:
Community [General] types almost always require a medium to large group of fish of similar species to be happy. Community fish may become overly stressed if not provided an adequate number of compatible tank-mates.

Gold Barb Puntius semifasciolatus
The gold barb is a very popular color variant of the China Barb, a fish that has less dramatic color and is not seen in aquariums as often as its gold counterpart.
Grows to: 2.5" ...

Scientific Name: Puntius everetti, formerly Barbus everetti
Family: Cyprinidae
Size: 4 to 5 inches
Temperature: 76 to 84 degrees Fahrenheit
Alkalinity: soft, slightly acidic water
pH: 6.0 to 6.5
Origin: Southeast Asia -- Borneo, Sarawak, Singapore ...

Puntius everetti
SYN: Barbus everetti
PD: An elongated species with two pairs of barbels. The back is orange-brown to brown, and the belly is yellow to white. The sides are orange to red with several irregular bars.

Cherry Barb - Puntius titteya
Chessboard Cichlid - Dicrossus filamentosa
Chinese Algae Eater - Gyrinocheilus aymonieri
Chinese Paradise Fish - Macropodus ocellatus
Chipokae Mbuna - Melanochromis sp.
Chocolate Cichlid - Hypselecara coryphaenoides ...

Apart from such "mass produced" species, they are also getting into Pterophyllum scalare, Colisa lalia, Geophagus brasiliensis, Corydoras aeneus, Corydoras panda, Puntius titteya (the cherry barb), Helostoma temminckii, ...

edu (Neil Frank) writes: > > But, please note the following correction pointed out by > Liisa Sarakontu: > > Puntius tico (Barbus tico) is the Two Spot or Tico Barb, not the Rosy > Barb, as I wrote.

Mid-sized barbs (up to about 4 1/2" long) include Clown Barbs - Barbodes everetti, Rosy Barbs - Puntius conchonius, and Black Ruby Barbs - Puntius nigrofasciatus.

Barbus everetti - Singapura e Born (other names: Puntius (Barbus) everetti)
origin:
Southeast Asia, Borneo, Malasya and Singapore ...

Goes well with most community fish. Ideal tankmates for a biotope setup would be small Indian fishes such as Dario dario, Puntius gelius and Schistura corica.
Breeding
This species has been bred in the aquarium.

Most barbs offered for sale come from Asia and belong to the genus Puntius, but barbs are also found throughout Africa. Many barbs (and other cyprinids) have a distinctive iridescence caused by the presence of guanin.

See also: Fish, Species, Water, Aquarium, Barb