Finally got some Scleromystax barbatus!!!

[bsmith]

I have been looking for these guys for awhile now and was very fortunate to be put in contact with a breeder by a member of a planted forum I am a member of!!!

Here is the

Scleromystax barbatus

on these beauties and a few pics of them as I received them!





I look forward to trying to get these guys breeding but who knows what will happen.

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[AndiH]

congratulations! One of my absolute favorites. I'm hoping that I'll have the space/tanks for them again in the future.

[corybrummie2010]

Nice pick up mate

[bsmith]

They are all happily rummaging through the substrate in their new home and grouped up pretty nicely. What are the best foods for these guys (I have no live stuff) and does anyone know about how big/old these guys have to be before the sexual di-morphism starts to display?

[AndiH]

I fed mine shrimp pellets daily and Sera O-Nips once a week. They were absolutely wild for the O-Nips. As for the dimorphism, mine weren't old enough (I think) when I traded them for C pandas and a few other things.

[bsmith]

What does an o nip consist of?

[AndiH]

Sera O-nip
Ingredients
fish meal, wheat, yeast, gammarus meal, spirulina algae, krill meal, daphnia meal, tubifex meal, cyclop0s meal, lucerne meal, spinach, carrots, pepper, vegetable oil, parley, vitamins and colorants.

[bsmith]

Sera O-nip
Ingredients
fish meal, wheat, yeast, gammarus meal, spirulina algae, krill meal, daphnia meal, tubifex meal, cyclop0s meal, lucerne meal, spinach, carrots, pepper, vegetable oil, parley, vitamins and colorants.

So I guess its a type of wafer or stick? I have quite a variety of different foods at my disposal since I sell Kens Premium Foods in smaller portions here and on another site.

I just dont know if they are more carnivorous or herbivorous?

[AndiH]

I can't help you there. They ate everything put in the tank, but I didn't have a BN then so don't know if they'd eat something just vegetable. O-nips are tablets that stick to the side of the tank. It was quite a sight to see 8 S barbatus and 6 C pandas all trying to eat from it at once.

[bsmith]

Thats okay Andi, you have still been very helpful and I appreciate it.

Im going to go downstairs to view these guys and my L183's and bring my camera with me. Hopefully my next post will include some good shots of these beauties!

[bsmith]

Hopefully this wont be too much of a let down because this is the worst pic ever. I Am dealing with a bout of green water and since I ripped all of the Manzanita pieces out of this tank in hopes of viewing the Barbatus better the water is super cloudy from that too!

Well here is what I got.