High Nitrites In Cycle

Harlequins go beautifully with Cherry Barbs. I have those two together and am looking to add Glowlight danios on my next restocking, I think they match nicely in colour and temperament, lovely peaceful fish all of them.

Oh the joys of trying to photograph fast-moving fish! 

I do like Cherry Barbs. 

Sue have i remembered correctly, you have some Albino Cherry Barbs? Do you have them in a mixed shoal wth standard colouration too?

Sue have i remembered correctly, you have some Albino Cherry Barbs? Do you have them in a mixed shoal with standard colouration too?

Yes I do. I have 1 male, 5 female natural coloured barbs (did have 2 males but he's the one that got fungus and died), and 3m 3f albinos. The male albinos are orange with red eyes and the females are light yellow with red eyes and orange fins. And red lips. They look as though they are wearing lipstick. If I look closely at the natural females, they have red lips too, it's not as visible on their body colouring.
It is hard to say if they mix together because whatever the colour they seem to go their own ways.

One comment I would make is that a lot of the albinos in the MA tank were deformed. I had to stand over the chap to make sure he got non-deformed fish. They are also smaller than the natural ones. I put this down to the huge amount of inbreeding that must go on to develop and maintain this strain.
But for anyone who wants yellow fish with the temperament of cherry barbs, there is this choice provided you can accept red eyed fish. Apparently that puts a lot of people off them.