Get to Know the Charming Checkered Barb - Oliotius oligolepis 

100% more like Pentazona (we need to-do a species spotlight on Pentazona, we have had them for a couple years now in the fish room, and on and off for 20 years really), Pentazona barbs are nothing like a tiger barb in personality and I'd argue more colourful and just an all round nicer/better fish in general to keep in the hobby, the checkered are about the same in size (a bit smaller maybe) and disposition as Pentazona barbs!! Watch out for hexazona barbs in terms of they look very similar to Pentazona barbs, they have the same personality of the Pentazona though! Hexazona barbs and Pentazona barbs are very often sold as Pentazona barbs (both equally awesome and the same disposition). Wow i've confused myself a little here haha, but yea Pentazona/Hexazona/Checkered the same from a personality and compatibility standpoint, dont know if that helps any but thank you for the comment :)

Thanks for he comment Gigi, very best easter wishes to you and your family, don't eat too much chocolate (Mr Aquadiction needs to take this advice, diet time Tuesday for him haha)

Thanks so much Jeff! We heard you are about to redo your fish room, is that true? Looking forward to seeing what you do 👍👍

@@Aquadiction a new stand/rack and a few new tanks i have bought, but nothing big in the way of change 🙂just a growth spurt.

Yea they do tend to be a bit of a headstander barb lol

I love that position! So cute!

Thanks for the comment bud, we have supplemental material on our website for ideal water parameters here aquadiction.world/species-spotlight/checkered-barb/ but these are super hardy in our experience, our PH is 7 and water is very hard so they can tolerate/thrive in most aquarium conditions tbh, appreciate the comment, hope that link helps :)

@@Aquadiction Absolutely fantastic and thanks to your link I'm now going through a list of 55 (!) different varieties of barbs 😍 Cherry on top of the cake

Your very welcome bud, hope you find some useful info there, 140 tetras listed there is interested :)

Thanks for the comment, it’s appt😊

Really very much appreciate you Stefan, you and a few other RU-vidrs like big fish lad, Jeff and Patty's aquatics, Stubbs are very highly thought of in our house :)

@@Aquadiction thank you so much for the props - and I hope you have/had a Happy Easter!

Thanks bud, yea we get a 4 day weekend here in the UK (do you in the USA?) so we have had a ton of time in the fish room thanks to the break, a little 2 much Chocolate but we have got a lot of the tasks done we never normally find the time to finish on an average weekend so all good :)

Actually, the USA offers no official holidays for Easter, though many kids have Spring Break and lots of folks unofficially take off for Good Friday. @@Aquadiction

They are precious aren’t they 👍

Thank you so much for the lovely comment, really happy to hear the website has helped you buddy!!! When we hit the year mark of when you did the last fish room tour for us if you want to do another as a *yearly update* let us know and hopefully we can pass you some more subs, as you know we are big fans of your channel :)

@@Aquadiction I absolutely would love to do that😁👍

Oh wow that’s so incredibly generous of you, thank you so so much! We got a bit demotivated recently thinking you were no longer going to be around to watch our videos! Really glad you’re sticking around ❤️! Hope your doing better?

@Aquadiction well, it said it came back declined. It has my old debit card and I'm having a hard time getting it changed...but I'll figure it out. Yes things have gotten much better all the way around, but I still love the hobby and yalls content as always...cheers

@Aquadiction weird...now it says it went through and there's no option to join again and there's a badge by name, so maybe it went through. I'll check my bank account to see if it went through, but I just just a $2 donation to make sure it went through and it did, so hopefully we're good

@Aquadiction actually when I get my new condo in Houston I'll have a tank or 2. I've got a lot of time to think about what I'll do, but one thought was a 175g tank with nano fish, lol, but that's probably a silly idea. Yeah I'll certainly be around and watching yall for sure. It will give me sooooo many ideas and keep me connected to the hobby at least virtually, right?

Thanks bud, it looks like it went through, really appreciative of your support but if you ever struggle please don't feel you need to remain a member!! We have just refurbished/planted one of our big 450's and are looking to stock different rare types of pencilfish, hopefully that goes well, def have some videos out on them and the complete fish room makeover shortly, filming each tank week by week and will compile into a big video of everything that went wrong and right during the time period, its interesting to see the plant growth over the period of time with a dirtied bottom and 12w cheap ebay light :)

Dude I just saw this, dont send us all your money!!!! Actually, please do send us all your money (JK)! Hows your easter going? Are easter eggs a big thing over in the USA? We are changing the name here to "gesture eggs" because "easter" eggs is offensive to some here! I think its all a bit crazy and personally think everyone should just get a fish tank and put all their effort into that rather than getting offended from the little things that don't impact day to day survival but that's just me! Fishkeeping should unite the world!

@Aquadiction lol no Easter eggs here