Hi Chris did you know that your channel is one of the best, You are very knowledgeable in what you do. I can see your passion. Thank you for making a very educational content.

When in doubt........Barry White!! ........and candles :)

You’re an awesome peeping Stubbs!! And so are we hahaha!! Fish breeding behavior is awesome!! These barbs are beautiful!! Best of luck Chris!!

Your system and container with mop to stimulate the deposition of barbs is interesting. I've seen similar ones among Killy and Medaka fish enthusiasts. Have a nice weekend Chris

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The moon light looked cool, too bad it didn’t work. Best of luck breeding outdoors this season !

Usually when people do water changes they fill the tank back up with slightly colder water and they get them to spawn, you will probably have better luck when you put them outside, good luck with them Chris.

Wow Chris. Such work and planning to get them to spawn. It seemed like what you were doing was working. Wish you could have just left them like that overnight. I was really hoping the moon light effect would have worked. I sure hope you can figure out the perfect combination. They sure were willing to try. 😅 Great video, really enjoyed watching. ❤

Interesting Chris fair play 👍🏼👍🏼

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The Barb feeding frenzy reminds me of my family at the Mandarin buffet lol. Love all the different ways you try to get them to breed and I know its hit and miss but watching the master makes me realize how many years of experience you have👊🍻

Looking good Chris

Lovely tank. And fish hope you are successful Chris 🙏🐟🐟🐟🐟🙏

them schooling is always mesmerizing

Love discovering spawning triggers and learning how to create the kickstart Great video Chris

Awesome video Chris, I would definitely try doing a water change but lower the temperature, most fish prefer to breed during and after a large rain shower , it is more natural for them. Hope that helps mate. Gotta say they are stunning looking barbs you have there mate. Full view 😊

Hopefully next time will be a success Chris!!! But they are labeled rare for a reason I’m thinking. You’ll succeed, I’m sure, in breeding these barbs! 👍 😊❤

I think patience is the key. I have never actually tried to breed fish but with that said I have 3 different species that are breeding all on their own time. I have Sevrums, Uaru's and Empire Gudgeons all breeding. Let nature take it's course and they will do their thing in their time

Beautiful fish Chris! Cool water always does the trick. Love the tank scape 👍

Great video Chris, I love the DIY spawning island. I know from my experiences with fish in general the more I tried to get fish to breed they don’t and then when I don’t try they do it on their own. Good luck buddy.

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I have had water changes trigger spawning, but never while draining the tank. Super interesting Chris, i hope you can get them to breed inside. Have you tried candlelight and guitar music?

lol all those cute fish coming up for their brine shrimp.

Also try some live daphnia or bloodworm 😊

It think irs only a mayter of time chris keep at it vigilance will prevail stock with it🙂👍🏻

They will breed for you when you walk away and miss it. Always happens to me 👍👍👍

They really are beautiful fish and even more so when in breeding dress like you showed near the end 😍. Sounds like you're doing everything right, I bet they will breed for you again especially since they did once before. Super good luck with it, full view. Hope you have a nice weekend! 🙂👍

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I find doing water changes with slightly cooler water seems to trigger breeding behaviour in African Cichlids.

Well darn, I was rooting for them to spawn, better luck next time!

The spawning trap looks good, we have never bred or even kept these but I in the UK these are double at least the price of Denison barbs so I suspect they are even harder to breed and may need hormones as you say yourself in your video bud! The thing that might get in the way of it working in the aquarium is you have a lot of live plants and they may preferer to spawn around these, again you said pretty much the same as I was typing lol! You may have better luck with them outside I guess but I would suspect they will need a fairly large pond to get them frisky?! Not much help but def interested to see if you manage it! Oh we also find we get more success in breeding if we have a single male and female(s) as the males attention is focused on the females rather than displaying to other males, not sure if that helps at all?!

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they may be spawning in there very early before sunrise, but they keep on eating the eggs

looking good mate i really need to get a tank set up inside

They are really nice fish. Do you think decreasing the male to female ratio woul help them spawn?

Unfortunate that the barbs didn't spawn as hoped but if you decide to try again I would suggest that rather than lowering the water you turn down the lights, put on some Barry White and think twice about videoing it as the presence of the camera might make the fish uncomfortable. The last thing you want is KZfaq shutting down your channel for showing pornographic ,albeit fish, content. 🤣🤣🤣

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