Barbus a butterfly - the aquarium fish is from Africa. At these small fishes a long body. In front there are several small short moustaches. A back of brown color, a paunch gray with impurity yellow, sides yellowy-brown. On anal, tail and belly fins there is a black fringing.
Males more small than females, a color at them are brighter. In addition, males behind a branchiate cover have at once a dark stain, it reminds a half moon form, at females a similar spot of round shape. In aquarian conditions of a small fish about four centimeters can grow. Barbus a butterfly - peaceful fish, gregarious. It is necessary to support them in the general aquarium a flock from 6-8 small fishes with other peaceful fishes. They spend the main part of time on average a water layer.
The 60-liter rectangular aquarium will be suitable for keeping of butterflies. Capacity should be covered that barbus did not jump out. Place at the bottom of a snag and stones. Set an aquarium on perimeter with plants with leaves which reach a water surface. Lighting has to be average intensity, scattered.
Barbusa eat the various live, dry, frozen and vegetable sterns, it can be: a koretra, a water flea, the crank scalded by boiled water leaves of lettuce, a dandelion, spinach. barbus reaches the polovozrelost at the age of five months. As a nerestovik choose an aquarium not less than 100 liters, water level in it has to reach a point of 15 centimeters. Aeration in a nerestovika has to be weak. Lay a separator grid on a bottom, plant several bushes of the Javanese moss. Within 10 days before spawning you support producers separately, you feed with various sterns. Land one female and two males in nerestovik in the evening. Spawning the aquarium has to be located closer to a window that on it the daylight freely got. Spawning will begin with the first beams of the sun. The female in the course of spawning vymetyvat about 60-80 small berries. After spawning transplant producers that they did not eat caviar. Caviar is incubated to steam of days, then whitebaits begin to swim in search of a forage. Begin them to feed with live dust, small water fleas, microworms, a Cyclops. The forage has to be various - it is required for successful cultivation of whitebaits. Whitebaits are characterized by the uneven growth so periodically do not forget them to sort. Life expectancy of a barbus of a butterfly in an aquarium makes about 5-6 years.