Breeding mops and Black ruby barbs...

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Looking for a place that sells breeding mops. Been in the hobby and in the biz for a long time and never seen in them in LFS.

Also, anyone know a god site where I can get some good info on breeding black ruby barbs. It's a pain but I want to challenge myself.

Thanks,

Taso
 
Yaknow what drives me nuts?

I got these ruby barbs and ASSUMED they liked a low ph because I know tiger barbs like it around 6.5 as per Axelrod's encyclopedia. Then, after I lose 1 ( started with 13), I double checked the encyc and it said a ph of 7.2! So now I have started doing water changes in 5 gallon intervals 2 x a week (30 breeder) to raise the ph a bit. I know these boys are tough, although I am down to 10. Now I check the FW listing on this site and it proclaims ruby's like an acidic ph.

Doesn't this hobby burn ya sometimes? No 2 answers are ever the same.

I assume breeding them would require maybe a lower ph to stimulate. But I need more info.

Think a 5 gallon with breeding mop will do, set outside to catch daylight? or 10 gallon?

should I split males from females in the meantime?
peace,

Taso
 
I buffer mine, in my very very soft water, to ~pH7.0.

What drives them to spawning is a big, cool water change at lights-out. Then they spawn at dawn.

I lost a male the other week. Jumped like a newlywed falling out of bed. Dried to a crisp, poor guy.

You can make spawning mops while you watch tv, with all-nylon knitting yarn, wound round a small paperback, tied off, and clipped to open the loops. You drop it in boiling water for a minute, to draw out any extra dye. Then you tie it to a cork.

Or you can just drape a hank of Java Moss over a piece of natural corkbark.

Get up early to save those eggs, eh.
 
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