Best Community Fish -The Cherry Barb 

Thank you SOOOOO MUCH!! This video changed what I chose for a new tank. It took years to save my weeding money for GOOD substrate, GOOD light, etc. I traded veggies for mystery crypts from friends. 4 months ago I set up a 20 tall with otocinclus & cherry barbs. Today I find my cherry barbs have spawned! I have fry and I've never had any kind of fry before! I'm so stinkin' excited!!

My beautiful Cherry Barb, Orange, lived for 16 years! From the time I was 9 up until this last Saturday (I'm almost 25). We loved him and will miss him dearly. Forever swimming in our hearts....

I really appreciate all the work you put in to this channel. I love learning about different species. Thanks.

Thank you for additional information. I just bought two today for my daughter and son and they care awesome so far!

Thank you Rachel , enjoyed this video . Gives me a better insight to the Cherry Barb.

I love this video. I first watched it a few months ago. It sold me on cherry barbs and I love them! Thanks for the tips😉

I recently got given 7 cherry barbs (4 males, 3 females) as a suprise along with a betta that I was rescuing! I knew they were barbs just by looking at them, but this is my first time owning them & so far they've been a pleasure to keep! Thanks for all the info on them, It really helped me out! Xx

Great spotlight Rachel!!

These are one of my favorites, I always like the small community fish,

Perfect video Rachel I love the cherry barb there colours are amazing 🤗🤗

great to see cherry barbs getting some love

White clouds and cherry barbs are my all time favourites, adorable and well tempered :)

Just got our first lot of cherry barbs. Great little additions to our tank

Thanks for the temp info

So informational, so beautiful! Absolutely love your channel ❤

beautiful!

THANK YOU! (I got my first Cherry Barbs in 1967 - And I've kept a lot since - And I may again, someday.... And I may try and breed them, finally!)

Love the Cherry barb!!

I immediately fell for the cherry barb when I saw him. Cherry barb has been my favorite type of fish since I got one. They are in a communal tank with tetra's and ancistrus. It has never been a problem.

I love Cherry Barbs! They're really interesting fish and have great color. I agree that they are overlooked way too often.

agree they are such a beauty to behold in shoal up to 20 stunning.

I love cherry barbs; I kept them with white clouds as well. Odessa barb and emperor terra are all great too.

great stuff as always! would LOVE to see a vid of your breeding setups illustrated.

gorgeous species

I love those barbs Rachel!

Thank you 🧜🏻‍♀️

you're right cherry barbs I have a big school there awesome

Thanks for the awesome videos. Looking at that beautifully planted tank I'd say you were an aquascaper ;P

I went with cherry barbs after visiting here. I put thirteen into an ADA 34 gallon tank that is 24"x 18" x 18" that is heavily planted with good but gentle filtration and a bit of aeration. All is well after several months. Its fun the watch the males display and fidget fight. The females seem much more retiring than the males.

I was trying to decide if I should get odessa barbs in addition to cherry barbs in my future 75 gallon, but didn't know if the odessa males would overpower or comparatively wash out the cherry males red color. But I managed to glimpse at 3:42 a pair of both species, in same video, and decided to indeed get both. Thanks!!!

The different about ch ferry barbs , they have something you cant tell. normally tetras doesnt look clever you know (how much fish can be ) but these guys are different some intelligent spark you can see from them. i have 30 of them in my tank my all the fav fish by far..

I always tell people that are new to the hobby to get cherry barbs or white clouds. Both are great fish that are hardy and have great personality. I have a 10 gallon live planted tank with just 6 cherry barbs. I just put in a spawning mop and they freaked out over it so hoping for some more free fish :D

Love mine!

thanks

These guys picked on my Corydoras!

nice looking fish :)

Thank you for sharing this, I'm from little Island Sri Lanka..

Hi , im from Sri lanka..this is good video !

Hi Rachael, love your videos, so informative. What are those plants in your tank, the one on the left reaches up to the surface & there's one on the right & they look sort of spikey ?

It was fate that I bought two of these yesterday. I know there should be more but these were the only two the store had and I figured I'd give em a good home in my 60g. They seem to like to hang with an orange platy I got. I think they think that he is one of them. Haha I wanna check out the gold barb next. When they get old there colors are awesome.

👍💯✨love them I have 7

Okay I have to admit a senior moment. Redoing a 55 gallon tank in the living room, for my wife. Her favorite color being red, so thinking of red fish, and completely forgot these. Thank you for the reminder.

Added some cherry barbs to my 36gal bowflex a couple months ago, and noticed two fry swimming the tank day before yesterday. Lol, was so excited, never any fry of any kind in my tank before. Just the two, so imagine the rest unhatched or consumed. So far the little critters are holding their own. Tank mates include 5 adult cherry barbs, 5 black neon tetras, 5 hatchets, 2 otto cats and 3 panda Corys.

Do you think they would be suited to the fluval flex 15 gallon planted tank. I was looking at the chili Rasbora but I think the current would be too strong. I have the 9 gallon flex as a small community tank but thinking of making a colourful species tank with the 15 gallon. If you think they would work, how many do you think I could have if I had a piece of drift wood and love plants.

I just purchased 3 cherry barns, and 3 green striped barns. To go in my 20 gallon tank. I also have two albino cory cats and one green cory cat. My question is do I need to put a few more barbs into the tank or would it be safe to put in a few tiger barbs. I had different verities platys before who eventually died of old age and my cory cats were all that remained in the tank. My levels of nitrate, ammonia ect were in great shape but I didn't want to rock the boat by adding too many fish at once. This is my first experience with barbs so hopefully I am doing it right.

Hi, thank you for all the information! Question, could I get 6 Cherry Barb's, 6 Neon Tetra's and 3 Coridories, plus one Betta? All in a new tall 24 gallon tank?

@Rachel O'leary i think my cherry barbs are eating new growth from my cardamine plants. Have you experienced cherry barbs eating plants.

Hi Rachel. Nice video. I have something to ask you. I got new discus and they haven't eaten in a couple of days. I tried feeding them Discus Bio Gold. Can I try with live tubifex worms instead?

We have become convinced they would be cool to keep. We've just purchased a Juwel Vision 180 to put them in, lots of plants. Any ideas for what to go with them - we were thinking penguin tetra.

Is that a corydora sodalis at 0:40? They are amazing, I love mine! I would like more of them but I can't find them anywhere!

I 100% agree about how underrated they are. One of my favorite fish EVER!!!

I know this is a older video you have done, but I got some cherry barbs because they are beautiful fish. I currently have a out break of ick, also to go along with that a few of my females and one of males now have red marks on their sides. I understand it's a infection. I'm treating them with ick-x and melafix, I also have betta and a Albino bristlenose plecostomus that are in fected with ick. I'm going on day 4 with treatments. How long do I treat them for the ick? They are in their ten gallon hospital tank. I went and bought a new tank of 20 to move them into. When will it be safe to move them, they are getting extremely stressed I feel. They are just swimming up and down rapidly, I'm pretty sure it's stress. I have not had fish in 20 years. Thank you so much for sharing your fish room and such.

What ph do the cherry barbs like? I'm looking for a schooling fish, neon tetras I haven't had much luck with

Would you be able to have them in a tank with a Betta ? I’m thinking of making a community tank and adding cherry barbs to it

This is precisely the type of setup I plan for this spring (when I get back from Costa Rica (ah! the pleasures of retirement.) I plan on using a 100 gal. tank with dense planting. Cherry Barbs have always been a favorite. I plan on using Microgeophagus (I still want to call the Apistos.) ramirezi but basically the same idea, a largish tank with little fish. I do have a question, has anyone here had success keeping shrimp with rams?

Will their colors dull above pool filter sand and light backdrop?

Do cherry barbs go well with black skirt tetras?

Hi Rachel, I have a 50 gallon with 5 angels and a school of Corys. Im planning on getting 6-10 cherries. Will the nip at my Angels?

Could I fit 5 of these in a 30 gallon tank with 2 mollies and 5 golden barbs?

How about rosy barbs do they make great community fish also?

When I had my tank, I found that the Cherry Barbs would be hidden in and amongst the plants, when I went to feed them they'd emerge all of a sudden and chow-down. They're very easy to care for, mild mannered and colorful.......

what is that big stringy plant on left

those neons are big!

Your Cherry Barbs seem to have a much longer tail than the ones I've always kept. Mine have a more "standard" tail. They overpopulated my 37 gallon to the point I had to trade with my local fish store. They were really fond of Java fern 'windelov' as were the fry.

Would they do well with cpd?

Is there temperament good with bettas or are they fin nippers?

Can you make a video on red phantom tetras

Rachel, I had 7 female and 3 male cherry barbs in a fairly heavily planted 29 gal. All but one of the males died. Will they kill each other

I got a 30 gallon tank with nine corydoras. I want to add a shoal of 14, either cherry barbs or harlequin rasboras, just can’t decide. Of course I could have seven of each but a bugger shoal would be better. Which one do you think?

Any reason these shouldn't go with Chili Rasboras? In a super heavily planted 29 gal, ideally with Cherry Shrimp too (tons of little hiding spots for them)

How many could I put in a 36 gallon tank with an angelfish

Hmmm something else to consider thanks

How long do cherry barbs usually live?

Would cherry barbs peacefully coexist in a tank with platys?

What temp do you keep them at? I'm assuming also the plants you keep are more accommodated to the temps?.. just an assumption.

we moved a hour move.from our one home to our other, our forty gallon has about thirty small fish. our cherry barbs are over a year old. about three weeks into the move everything was fine then all of sudden all my cherry barbs died. no clue, any comment on this?

Awesome! Having issues keeping my legs square. Have ye any tips or tricks this??

i recently got 2 males and 3 females. i want to add another female but im thinking of getting two straight away. my basic question is: can there be too many females in one tank if i have two males and 80x40cm tank footprint or can i safely add some?

Would Cherry Barbs typically eat Molly and Platy fry?

Might add 12 to my 30 gallon they are cute

👍Thanks for sharing! Good looking 🐠🎬

Is possible to put Cherry barbs with my Paradise fish which currently resides in a 29 gallon?

I have about two dozen outside in two of my unfiltered water container gardens. It's heavily planted so a few babies survive. I started out with 5.. I love these fish. I want to set up stock tanks in galvanized livestock tanks, once I can get them shipped here. Do you know if the metal troughs affect the water ph?

can they go in with guppies?

Will they nip at guppies? and will they eat fry?

Are they safe for cherry shrimp and amano shrimp

Can these go in a 10 gallon tank?

Hey Rachel, who does the welding on your tank stands please??? I'm welding one for my hundred gallon and needed some feedback and a small brain storm!!!😉😊👍 Michael

Would these be a good fit to go with my white cloud mountain minnows? I've found that it's much harder to find tank mates for them than I thought it would be.

I have never seen them here in Australia!

Are they ok with guppies?

Would they be okay with a halfmoon betta, he's really placid with other fish and I don't want him to be bullied?

One of mine chased another barb out of the aquarium (40x25x25).... after that got even more aggressive and chased a Chinese Danio also out of it. Took the other Danio out and put it in a smaller bowl. One other red barb left in and that one stays hidden in the plants. Not sure if I want to put more barbs in to get the schooling going. I'm afraid it will make it worse. Those two in there now are both males.

Hello -- Is there any information on whether cherry barbs can be kept with shrimps? Or will they eat the shrimps?

I know this is an older video but I was considering getting some cherry barbs to replace the neons tetras I got (there was some misinformation I was fed and they aren't a good fit for my tank parameters). How many MAX could I put in a 20 gallon? 10 by themselves? How about with a couple 2in tankmates like guppies or mollies?

They can be kept in cooler water I keep them with. Zebra and whitecloud also. With gold barbs all ok

The good thing about these spotlights is that the breeding is included.

Are they compatible with albino long fin pleco and paradise gourami?

Do you think these would be compatible in a 10 gallon well planted RCS tank?

I just subscribed, You are totally the best. I would have never bought cherry barbs because of it being a barb, I'm thinking fin nipper etc. What a wonderful and beautiful fish! I've been doing fish keeping a long time. Until I got a job that required me to move quite a bit. Well you know how difficult moving with aquariums must be, so I unfortunately had to give up the hobby. Now that I have retired, what better time to start up again. Long story short. I have watch A LOT of RU-vid trying to catch up. Why I subscribed to you is, frankly, there is no BS. No whats playing on football, no pushing products, just to the point, you don't lose track of what your taking about, and you use basic and layman's terms. Thank you!! I enjoy your videos.