Hi everyone, welcome back to our little UK fish room.
In today's video, we will show you how to breed, hatch and raise Haludaria fasciata,
more wildly known as The Red Panda or Melon Barb.
For this video, we will be breeding the Red Panda Barbs directly in their permanent aquarium.
This 240 Liter or 42-gallon custom aquarium also houses Narayan Barbs, Black Ruby Barbs,
Loapard Corydoras and Duplicate Corydoras.
To successfully breed Red Panda barbs this way, you will need marbles for the eggs to
fall in between, a basic spawning mop and a small plastic container.
If you observe your barbs for a few hours, you will notice the dominant male Red Panda
Barb will have established some territory in the aquarium.
This is where you will want to place the spawning trap.
The following morning you should observe the dominant male spawning with several females,
which will go on for several hours until the early afternoon.
The male will energetically defend his territory, chasing away any fish other than female Red
Panda Barbs that dare to get to close.
Sexing mature red panda barbs is incredibly simple as the males develop a deep red colouration,
especially when spawning, and the females are somewhat duller and brownish in colouration.
It's about two hours later, and we have removed the spawning trap from the aquarium and carefully
extracted the marbles and breeding mop.
We have about 40 viable eggs or thereabouts, the viable eggs are clear to transparent ones,
there's a couple that look infertile, they are the ones are milky white ones.
There's a good example of an infertile one, so we will just pull out that.
For the purpose of this video, we will be growing out the fry in this 25ltr aquarium
with an air stone and heater set to 78 Fahrenheit.
The water is just dechlorinated tap water.
It's day two, just less than 24 hours since removing the eggs, and as you can see, we
already have a wriggler that has developed a tail.
You can also see a lot of paramecium naturally forming already, which will make an excellent
first food in just a few days from now.
Day Three and their eyes are starting to form.
Day 4 marks the most significant change in the frys development as their eyes are now
fully formed, and they are starting to crawl around the aquarium, looking for paramecium
to feed on.
Day five and they are finally free swimming.
It's day six, and the fry have polished off much of the naturally occurring infusoria.
Today we are giving them their first feed of micro worms, the only live food we will
provide while raising the fry.
For us, microworm is the most straightforward food to culture.
Now that we have begun feeding, we have added a small cycled sponge filter.
Day 13 and the fry are starting to develop a black vertical stripe mid-body.
Day 18, and we have started transitioning the fry from Microworm and onto decapsulated
brine shrimp.
It's day 19, and we have moved the fry to a larger grow-out aquarium containing around
200 red panda barb fry, some of which are up to 2 weeks older than the fry you have
been watching develop.
As you can see, they are starting to develop some orangey-red colouration, and we will
continue to grow them in this larger aquarium.
That brings us to the end of our How to breed, hatch and raise Red Panda Barbs.
If you like these kinds of breeding videos, please let us know in the comments, and we
will aim to create more how-to-breed videos in the future.
Thanks to all our subscribers for supporting our channel, and we will see you shortly with
the next video!
Thanks for watching :)