Pentazona barb

Five belt bar ( Desmopuntius pentazona )

The five- belt bar ( Desmopuntius pentazona, Boulenger, 1894) (synonyms: Barbodes pentazona, Barbus pentazona, Capoeta pentazona, Puntius pentazona, Systomus pentazona ), is a freshwater ornamental fish from the order of carp -like. Your first introduction to Germany was in 1911 by the United ornamental fish hatcheries in Conrad height at Berlin.

Features

Five belt barbels are for a maximum of 5 cm tall and about three years old. The base color of the Five belt Barben is reddish brown, it is five vertical black stripes or "belt" applied. The males are stronger and remain smaller than the females.

Occurrence

It prefers a habitat with dense riparian zones and border planting is native in tropical Southeast Asia in Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Kalimantan. There they lived in quiet lowland waters and black water streams such as the Sungai Kuning or Sungai Pakao on Sumatra. These natural habitats to dry out but regularly so that the fish are forced to seek other areas.

Fins formula

• Dorsal 3/8
• Anal 3/5
• Pectoral 1/14

Hunting and

The five- belt bar is a schooling fish and should therefore at least ten men and are not kept alone in the aquarium. Within the aquarium hobby she enjoys only a small role, as her close relative is the tiger barb, maintained much more frequently.

The Five belt Barbe preferred the lower pelvic regions of the aquarium and often stirs up the bottom in search of food.

Five belt Barben you can also hold contrary to popular opinion, together with scalars, since five belt barbels are quieter than most of their relatives. For breeding the highest possible water plants are needed because the females lay their eggs in the upper regions.