Neon Gold Barb
This is a premium pet fish and we never see premium neon gold barbs like these in any of the live fish stores or in the online stores that we visit.
Neon gold barb. Premium pet fish are more energetic hardier and have brighter. The gold barb is another hardy freshwater fish that is good for beginners. Compared to other barbs e g.
Please carefully check our delivery conditions before you place an order. As i mentioned gold barbs are peaceful fish that love company. As with other barb species the female gold barb is fuller bodied than the male.
Offering barbodes semifasciolatus neon gold schuberti barb neon. Additional names gold barb golden barb goldfinned barb neon barb chinese barb sachsi barb schuberti barb half banded barb additional scientific names puntius schuberti barbus sachsii puntius semifasciolatus barbus schuberti. Please click here to see the fish profile explaining the keeping and breeding conditions for this species.
Tiger barbs or rosy barbs that often show signs of aggression gold barbs are the more peaceful. The gold barb is a social fish best kept in groups of 6 or more. The picture above shows a mature male premium quality neon gold barb swimming in one of our aquariums when one of us took this picture.
The neon rosy barb is a captive bred color morph developed from the rosy barb. Having said that they may still nip at the fins of some tank companions that have long flowing fins e g. This is a very hardy fish.
Many of these barbs are captive bred for the aquarium industry. Classified as an omnivore the gold barb benefits from a varied diet of flake pellet and small frozen foods such as mosquito larvae daphnia and brine shrimp. They have a mostly gold colored body with small dark or black patches running down the lateral line of the body.
Origin edit edit source these little fish come from the red river basin of southeast china. The image used above is for illustration purposes only. It is a flashy peaceful fish for a community tank but in the wild this man made shiny coloring would make it quick prey for predators.
The gold colored captive bred variant is highly popular in the aquarium trade giving rise to the name gold barb by which it is commonly sold. Angelfish or bettas so keep an eye on them or house them with species they re 100. There are no wild populations of this variety.
