So I have a 10-shoal of all female rosy barbs . How many males would I need to get them breeding? Will one wear himself out? The tank is a 55G am 0 ni 0 na -10 with a few plants and silica sand small gravel substrate.
I'd get 4 males and 6 females to start with but these are very easy to breed. I placed a pair in my pond a few years ago thinking of nothing but the satisfaction of seeing them swim together and months later, I noticed two new rosy barbs at 1.5 inch size swimming around.
I already have 10 females in a shoal there. I want as few boys as I need to get. I could trade in the females but it seems no one buys them as they arent as "pretty" and i love my females, so I don't want to trade them in.
10 females would probably be fine together. If you put one male in there, he would be a lucky dude! I have 3 rosy's, but don't know what sex they are, they are still young.