what are easier to care for?

[saltwaterseahorses]

whats easier?

[zenafish]

Barbs hands down. Fry are benthic, born larger and eat BBS from the start. I have had success raising barb fry either in their own tank or in the same tank with the parents.

Reidi has palegic fry that needs a kreisel to keep the fry suspended in the water. Need a green water environment with rotifers. Lots of water changes. I've done it with success but lots of work...

[rayjay]

I agree with that but you don't need a kreisel, just any method to keep them from surfacing.
I too found it best to use greenwater and I change the water totally every 2 days in each nursery.

[Diana]

Ah yes barb fry are easier to rear, however my reidis were much more prolific than my barbs.

[zenafish]

reidi has much larger broods, BTW, due to their naturally low survival rate of palegic fry...

sorta like sea turtles...one in a thousand makes it

[Diana]

I don't just mean brood size, I mean bam bam babies every two weeks for years. I actually had to change the temp to reduce the frequency. alls i'm saying, if you can get it right and raise the fry i would say reidis are easier to breed (which is the question?). barb fry are easier to care for.

i do prefer barbs though, and would get those again over reidis

[zenafish]

That's interesting...Diana...yours went a little differently than mine did...

my barbs and reidi both (quite literally) pumped out babies like clockwork every 2 wks when I had them. I had to change the photoperiod to get them to stop. Bad idea coz after that they never bred for me again after that

My barbs would throw 20-40 fry each batch, whereas the reidi averaged 250 per batch