Fish aquarian Barbus-sumatranus - Capoeta tetrazona tetrazona

Barbus-sumatranus - Capoeta tetrazona tetrazona (Bleeker, 1855) Cyprinidae

Capoeta tetrazona tetrazona lives on Sumatra, in Thailand, on Kalimantan (Borneo). Since the emergence in Europe in 1935 constantly meets in aquariums. Reaches 7 cm of length. Belly pair fins of males have intensive red coloring, the top part of a rylets reddish, a back fin has the edging of rich red color. The paunch of females is fuller, than males, their coloring is more dim, edges of belly fins are transparent. Fishes spawn in couples, in vessels with a capacity of 6-10 l at the bottom of which there has to be a separator grid. During spawning of steam looks for a support among plants therefore it is necessary to place a bunch of the Javanese moss or other fine-leaved plant in a vessel. Water: rn 6.5 - 7.0, dGH to 5 °, dKH to 1 °, temperature 26 ° C. Berries with a diameter of 1 mm yellowish and sticky. Larvae appear in 36 hours and within several days eat at the expense of a zheltochny bag. After whitebaits will begin to float, they can be fed with an artemiya or naupliya of a Cyclops. Whitebaits grow quickly, in two weeks reach in length of 1 cm, on a body strips are clearly visible.

Uncertainty concerning places of different types of men with a big mustache in system of fishes forced L. P. Schultz to try to resolve this problem. Based on some morphological features, including the sizes and quantity of short moustaches, he suggested to divide in 1957 fishes into the following 4 sorts: Barbus, Barbodes, Capoeta and Puntius. Fishes from the sort Capoeta have 2 short moustaches.

Page of tetrazona tetrazona gregarious fish. In polyculture she is supported in society of mobile fishes. Quiet and often many times over big fishes can attack and bite on them to them fins. At rest and a dream of fish take a position, characteristic of them, the head to a bottom. Eat a live forage.

In 1975 in the market there was an interesting mutation under the name "mossy barbus" which came probably from Asian fish farms where also various albinosny forms of this look were grown up. One of the most accurate signs on which it is possible to distinguish fishes related and similar at each other is the arrangement of strips at types of Barbodes pentazona pentazona, V. of pentazoa kahajani, V. of pentazona hexazona and Capoeta tetraznoa pertipcntazona.